Gregg could feel Ellen's placid, dull acceptance, colored slightly with annoyance.

Finally, nature took its course and the violent weeping subsided into dull acceptance.

Lynn Norris moved through it with admirable vocal agility, and Daniel Rawe, a countertenor, captured the aunt's dull acceptance wonderfully.

The pain in my chest passed into a dull acceptance.

There was no anger in the captain's face now, just a peculiar sadness, the dull acceptance of ultimate defeat.

If he had babbled long and loudly enough about events leading up to his landing on Mimir, and he must have, then the Veep would be expecting dull acceptance from him now.

They became men touched by fire-roused from dull acceptance by the sudden searing recollection of loss.

Spindle limbs, bloated belly, an expression of dull acceptance, without either pain or fear.

She had received dull acceptance instead.

She heard with dull acceptance.