Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Granted that it would be hard to write a dull account of such a personage, Philip Ziegler, author of biographies of Lord Melbourne and Diana Cooper, offers a remarkably lively and human portrait. His research was authorized by the Mountbatten family, but in this case, he says, the term does not mean that the book was distorted to fit the demands of the survivors. Ziegler's tone is generally admiring but not adulatory, as when he compares Mountbatten with Douglas MacArthur, his fellow Supreme Commander in the Pacific during World War II. The two Supremos were equally and supremely vain...
...stardom. His performance is so muted it is sometimes hard to hear his lines, and he has directed the film in the same torpid spirit. This story of an ex-con whose moral code imposes on him a mission of revenge among the drug traffickers around Miami is lazy, dull and told in imagery as murky as its underlying morality...
...second slice of limestone, from the Tertiary period, almost devoid of these fossils. Like other samples of rock from that era, it showed that the creatures alive during the late Cretaceous period had, by geological time scales, suddenly disappeared. In between the limestone layers was a dull red layer of clay about half an inch thick, first discovered by an Italian paleontologist around...
...performances are uniformly excellent. Peter Coyote as Blue is arrogant, self centered and outrageously charming; he mysteriously draws people to him like a whirlpool. Nick Maneuso's Eli handsome and well groomed enough to be a Ken doil, and he's just as dull lot awhile, but blanketed intensity and final indignation are all the mere effective in the end Heartbreakers is updated look at Nathanael West The Day of the "dream dump," modern day Los Angeles, those who state are all dissatisfied and spend she then days and might pretending they...
Restricting merriment outside of academia did not make Johnny a dull boy. Indeed, administrators had a very optimistic outlook on academic exercises that many students now consider drudgery...