dare-to-be-dull

Updated: June 19, 2025

The men were nice but undistinguished athletic schoolmasters, doctors snatching a holiday, good fellows all; the women, equally various the clever, the would-be-fast, the dare-to-be-dull, the women "who understood," and the usual pack of jolly dancing girls and "flappers."

Algernon Blackwood - Four Weird Tales