Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubtless need a profounder sense than most of us have of the excellence of that classical tradition which has been transmitted to some of us by our English ancestors. So far, however, as democracy means a levelling, either up or down, there is for us an invaluable corrective of dull uniformity in the often whimsical, but always personal utterances of German poets. The foremost of these poets are interpreted in special courses provided by the Department, or studied in connection with other writers of their time, both native and foreign; the valiant Lessing, ever alert in the defense of truth...
...revived Rosmersholm was dull. This dullness was possibly due to the insufficiency of Margaret Wycherly in the part of Rebecca West, and to the propaganda which was Ibsen's material. He had seen in his native land political dissension which was ripping the fabric of its history. He protested against this in a play...
...which certainly has been done at Harvard. The pupil reads the essay aloud to his tutor, which takes about half the hour. The tutor then spends the rest of the hour picking the essay to pieces or discussing ideas suggested by it. Everything here depends on the tutor. The dull ones--who are numerous--can do little more than all in omitted details. The good ones can drive a pupil to despair and learning. Most tutors provide their pupils with tea, lunch, or dinner at suitable intervals. Where this is not perfunctory, it is very pleasant. College beer is often...
...sophomoric ditties was at an end, and that henceforward the club would sing real music. He introduced it to the recondite mysteries of Handel, Palestrina and Bach. And, amazing as it seems, he was immediately successful. The club took on new life, and the concerts became not only dull things for loyal Harvard alumni to attend but musically important as well. Moreover, other glee clubs began to follow suit, until the old order seems in a fair way to a quiet demise. Glancing through the program, one notes one or two numbers that were composed especially for the club...
Donoghue; two unremarkable Sargents; an effective landscape by a greengrocer, another by a violinist in a cinema theatre, all as definite as roast beef, all competent, all dull. There was, also, one exception...