Word: dulled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...type we need. The President is not the attacker type, but Bob can do that kind of campaigning." He also can be abrasive and slashing to opponents, though his sense of humor alleviates some of the sting. Cracks Minnesota Republican Chairman Chuck Slocum: "We've got righteous Jimmy, dull Walter and stuffy Jerry. Bob Dole will add some zip to the campaign and prevent it from being dull...
...more peace the better," says Arizona Congressman John Rhodes, who will serve as permanent chairman of next week's Republican Convention. "I'd like to have it as dull as the Democrats did." Rhodes is unlikely to get his wish. In fact, preventing the convention from degenerating into factional strife is the job confronting Rhodes and three other Republicans who will spend much of their time on the podium at the Kemper Arena. The four...
Beyond these and a few others, Washington columning is a dull plain -unadventuresome and predictable. Often the predictability is intended and marketed as such, the print equivalents of those televised pillow fights between Galbraith and Buckley. Mostly the designated labels...
...Thompson again is seeking an inappropriate mood. Miller provides some fine telling moments which are worthy of pauses, but the bulk of the play must be quick-paced. The dialogue is, after all, essentially locker room banter; under Thompson's direction it is transmuted into nervous chatter at a dull cocktail party...
...classicism, however, is another man's cliché. It may be that audiences will no longer respond to so familiar a tale and, truth to tell, the trail that Clint Eastwood's Josey follows is a very long one, with a fair amount of dull slogging along the way. On the other hand, the film has its pleasures as well. For example, and not a moment too soon, Josey allies himself with Chief Dan George, playing a wise and humorous old Indian, much the way he did in Little Big Man. Then, too, Eastwood as a director manages...