dullness
dulness old use

Then under the dullness some one walks with a green light.

That took me a little bit due to my own dullness.

He felt a sense of dullness lifting from his mind.

After all the years of dullness, something exciting had finally happened.

A dull week, but its very dullness gave her a sense of security.

That was at least better than the dullness of despair.

They're not going to help me, he thought, with an overwhelming dullness.

Because I'd reasoned something out despite the dullness of my mind.

And they had suddenly taken the dullness out of hers.

Then one day the dullness of his work becomes irrelevant.

He thought: that is what I want - dullness, and company.

So much was tradition, and the Dance began with what might seem dullness.

Indeed, dullness, it seems, was the one thing Wallace could not stand.

And in general, there is a dullness to the dramatic structure.

"Any news is a relief from the dullness of this place," she said.

Dull is the only word for it, and it's a dullness that's in evidence most of the year.

Hell indeed, he thought through the dullness of the exhaustion.

Looking at my father I saw nothing but indecent dullness.

And I'm not sure that purposeful dullness is a good defense.

There was a little gleam in the dullness of the eyes.

Book readership could be considered another example of men's dullness.

Here he complains about the dullness of his wife's letters.

A certain light replaced the dullness in Brett's green eyes.

Henry James was stunned by the dullness of the question.

The same dullness I'd seen on the gas jockey's face.