Word: dulled
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...First there's Beijing's Zhao Liang, who used a decade of handheld shooting to create Petition, which chronicles the Kafkaesque torment of Chinese citizens seeking official redress for endlessly unanswered grievances. Then there's Burma VJ, the Danish director Anders ?stergaard's dazzling pastiche - marred at times by dull dramatic reconstructions - of material shot at great risk by underground videographers from Burma's democracy movement...
...plane at Newark, and I know I am really home when I get that first slice from Palumbo's Pizza on Route 9 in Old Bridge. The Midwest has grown on me these past 30 years, but it can be a bit staid. Jersey? There's never a dull moment! That's why I love it--Jay, Silent Bob, Snooki...
...song composed with such a hypnotic vigor that it risks eclipsing most of the tracks to come. A seething piano loop winds its way through cascading drum fills while Tunde Adebimpe (of TV on the Radio fame) warbles chilling lyrics laced with somber imagery—“Dull residue of what once was / A shattered cloud of swirling doves.” The song also has a more distinct arc than any other on the album. It’s the only track with a clear bridge, and it builds to a climactic resolution that inundates the listener...
...like “lunch” was an entity of its own rather than just a means by which humans interact and eat food. Accordingly, there are only certain places where it is appropriate that lunch should be “done”: seemingly modish but actually dull places like Grafton or Daedalus, both darlings of Harvard students on business lunches promoting their social entrepreneurship Web sites or catching up with their roommate back from a semester abroad in Buenos Aires or Shanghai...
...when Friday Night Lights was being made into a movie, director Pete Berg invited me to the Astrodome in Houston to watch the filming. It didn't take long to realize that the magic of moviemaking was no magic at all - repetitive and dull. I became bored, which is when I saw a small cluster of young men in wheelchairs on the sidelines...