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Word: dulled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sections of the carefully detailed Gothic craftsmanship seemed like Van Eyck's work. But the red-brown robe was uninspired and dull, and the floor area was badly wrinkled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Masterpiece in Disguise | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...assorted saints? Short of going to heaven, the best way to answer that question is to dip into the four lively and curious volumes of Butler's Lives of the Saints, just published in a brand-new bicentennial edition (Kenedy; $39.50). The saints are anything but a dull crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 2,565 Saints | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...Writing or revising the lives of the saints is not the dull job most people think it is," said Editor Attwater last week. "It's astonishing what interesting material turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 2,565 Saints | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...actions that should have seemed perfectly natural appeared as blatant overacting. No one, for example, could envision her climbing a tree, as Teresa is supposed to have done. Miss Zollo's uninteresting performance unfortunately made the second act much less successful than the first--made it, in fact, quite dull in spots...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Cradle Song | 8/2/1956 | See Source »

...crowd of most-authentic cut-throats and trollops completed the assemblage, and at the conclusion one was very sensible of the fact that it is a dull and commonplace world we live in, despite our atoms, and that, failing to have known John Gay's London, we must count ourselves lucky to have his opera...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: The Beggar's Opera | 7/26/1956 | See Source »

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