<adj.all> an unexciting novel lived an unexciting life
First, an increasing amount of the new money is going into foreign stock funds as more investors turn away from unexciting domestic markets and look for better returns overseas.
Such a strategy, admits the author, will be too unexciting and will require too much discipline for many readers.
Prospects are unexciting for the shares - down yesterday from 153p to 152p - which are on a discount to net assets of 20 per cent and a yield of 8.8 per cent.
What is left after the succession of disposals in the past nine months is an unexciting collection of low-margin businesses, in sectors such as metals smelting, trading, plant engineering and specialty chemicals.
It was as though the county was deliberately lagging behind, uninterested in encouraging interlopers from a less welcome, new age. Hotels were basic, restaurants were mostly caught in a 'meat and two veg' time-warp and shopping was unexciting.
"In the eyes of most people, heavy manufacturing is unexciting," Mr. Kelly says.
The result: unexciting earnings and sales that have helped depress its stock price and left it vulnerable.
As such, this will be the last time until after the review that attention will still focus on companies' results, rather than their relationship with the regulator. The results threaten to be unexciting.
The company is strongly cash generative, enabling it to fund further small acquisitions to build up its distribution network. This should provide some further lift for a solid but unexciting business.
And lastly, Mr Hearne believes that his offer has been pitched at a realistic level given the unexciting outlook for the oil price.
But domestic makes overall are seen as conservative, comfortable and unexciting, he said.
The Comit index closed off 3.61 at 538.19. Fiat remained active following the publication of unexciting results on Monday.
The physical production is respectable if unexciting.
The company's monopoly in instant photography virtually assures it of a solid, albeit unexciting, future even if its growth continues slow.
At a business level, it is unexciting.' Andrew Britton National Institute of Economic and Social Research It is a broadly neutral Budget, which is right for this year.
He likes to think of himself as the man who takes unexciting underdogs as clients and wins exciting victories over superstars.
A respectable, but unexciting version, warning against expectations of further interest rate cuts, duly appeared yesterday.
Kohl, 58, took office in 1982 with the reputation as an unexciting but dependable former state governor who had limited experience in international affairs.
Gold probably will remain unexciting in the first half of the year, then stir to life in the second half, bullion dealers said.