Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painted record turned out to be cheaper than color photographs, and had some of the infinite variety and savor of the handmade stuff-alongside which most modern mass produced items looked blandly dull...
...dull public-service programs: "Good intentions are such a novel state of mind in radio that a broadcaster may almost be forgiven for falling into the error of thinking that's all a program needs...
...despite these racy blessings, the novel is dull going. Diligently describing the European stew in Hitler's first year, whole pages are devoted to such passages as this: "In every issue touching monetary policy, disarmament, and the consolidation of world peace, it appears that Great Britain ... is less and less willing to take any step except with the full agreement of the United States. ... I find myself in complete agreement with Great Britain...
This year's final argument will be open to the public and the subject will be on the "taxibility of incomes of the beneficiary of a trust." Though this sounds like a dull and difficult subject for the average layman, any observer can get a fairly good idea of what is going on by reading the briefs, which are handed out like theatre programs at an argument...
...familiar evaluations of Joyce and Proust to the athletic conclusion that "they both seem to me very sick men, giant invalids who, in spite of enormous talent, were crippled by the same disease, elephantiasis of the ego. They both attempted titanic tasks, and both failed for lack of the dull but healthy quality without which no masterpiece can be contrived, a sense of proportion...