You betray your infirmity with your hanging dull ears, and make them insult: bear up bravely, and constantly.

For though honour's voice cannot provoke the silent dust, yet "flattery soothes the dull cold ear of AGE."

Though he moved through thick verdure across a carpet of innumerable twigs, broken branches, and leaves, his passing gave forth no sound that might have been apprehended by dull human ears.

No," Jack agrees, "but you listening to that tape with dull ears could do more harm than good.

It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts.

This gave me the more time to try and identify what the parts were doing, and further convict my dull ear.

More sensitivity by everyone to the rhythm and movement of the poetry would give the performance greater clarity, although in only a few cases did a dull ear make an actor miss the meaning of a line.

You have dull ears.

Pausing from his work, he leant on his spade, and put his hand to his dull ear.

lWo quick jabs and your dull, dreary ears become sophisticated.