Portuguese
insipidez Catalan
avorriment 1
To our tongue the sonnet is mortal, and the parent of insipidity.
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The characteristics of rhetoric are insipidity, mannerism, and monotonous parallelism of clauses.
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He is refined without false delicacy, and correct without insipidity.
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She is divinely innocent, but roguishness saves her from insipidity.
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What is the secret of its weakness and utter insipidity?
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The questions did not focus on just the chief news correspondent's boringness quotient.
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His tone reflected the boringness and triviality of the incident.
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If I could love a leper's sores, couldn't I love the boringness of Henry?
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The series feigned to mock their homeland's eccentricity and boringness.
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I need boringness -for nothing to be happening.
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In Manchester United's ongoing insipidness under José Mourinho a perfect storm of problems is found.
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The happy medium means respectability, and respectability means insipidness.
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In fact, the quiz-show segment saves this kid-friendly title from the insipidness often endemic to children's software.
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When we call a thing earthy we impute cloddishness; by 'watery' we imply insipidness; 'airy' is for something trivial.
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A slavish accuracy in figures, an arid lack of imagination, reduces conversation to the insipidness of flat wine, and Blaze's talk was never dull.
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The day was dark and rainy; the landscape was a flat dreariness.
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The charm of life was gone; there was nothing but dreariness left.
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I see that all is not dreariness and misery in the Poplars.
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As to the house itself, it was the dingy abode of dreariness.
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My dreariness has not been induced by the look of the house.
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The dreariness of my heart thawed and melted into peace and calm.
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She suddenly put her face against his shoulder in a lonely dreariness.
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After the dreariness of Norfolk, the prospect of action had excited him.
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She was moody and longed for something that would banish the dreariness.
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It's no wonder that 11-year-old Jason Lowry dreams of escaping the dreariness.
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I said to myself, oppressed by the dreariness, as I drove by.
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The first thing, I think, that I grew conscious of, was dreariness.
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She could escape the dreariness of that underground cell, but Oscar couldn't.
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This dreariness was worse than any her dreary, lonely life had known.
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The effect upon him was one of indescribable, almost of horrible, dreariness.
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Oh, the dreariness of the reality when compared with those bright expectations.
