1.  Anybody who thinks small-cap value investing is dull has never talked with Marty Whitman, the long-tenured manager of the Third Avenue Value fund.

2.  Arteta even manages to make the sex, which is explicit, seem routine and dull.

3.  Deputy Mayor Rudy Washington, who oversees the administration's club campaign, said complaints of New York's becoming duller than Kansas were reasons to celebrate.

4.  Despite Thalberg's enormous power and prestige during his lifetime, the hard fact of the matter is that most of his movies seem dull today.

5.  Despite his confidence that the three-length San Felipe defeat indicated improvement by his colt rather than dull efforts by the favorites, Orman isn't getting carried away.

6.  Desserts include one dull character, an unexceptional warm chocolate cake, with a molten center and a little scoop of vanilla ice cream on the side.

7.  Describing the myriad drills we did would be dull, even to those who regularly don nose clips and ear plugs.

8.  Damon "Blankman" Wayans plays a by-the-book Army lifer who finds life during peacetime a little dull.

9.  Dan McKinney is holding off too, but not because he expects jury selection to be dull.

10.  Despite its dull color when cooked, sorrel does taste bright and exuberant.