| 1 | The party was dull beyond description. | |
| 2 | Perfect Gift: almost any book will do - but don't make it too long or turgid a read. | |
| 3 | If you concentrate on books somebody tells you you "ought" to read, you probably won't have fun. | |
| 4 | Literalized translation of English advertisements may be of equivalency in its surface structure but can usually be very dull and thus fail to achieve the desired goals. | |
| 5 | There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not very interesting ones; |