duller

There is apparently no way to make these things run any faster, but Glaser, who returned often to the stage, at least gave one the impression, between the duller stretches, that it was clipping along.

But politicians specialise in storytelling - and Westminster would be much duller without it.

It is usually the duller yellowish birds which are spotted in the UK, having been swept off course by storms as they migrate south in the autumn, the website said.

Further north and west however, it was duller, cooler and wetter.

They don’t always mesh well, and the darker the series gets, the duller it becomes.