Word: duller
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Borge's format is simple. Looking like a drunken Viking, he announces his numbers, then plays the piano; for two and a half hours, the audience doesn't stop laughing. Nothing could be duller than trying to analyze his humor-he has perfect timing, taste, and talent, and that is enough...
...point where it instills its pupils with a healthy regard for intellect. This is manifested in the classrooms, where students vie to ask piercing questions. Although Burkhardt claims that "girls aren't afraid of being dumb," the competition in some classes assumes disproportionate dimensions and tends to make the duller students remain silent. The classes, which meet one to three times weekly, and entail many papers, run about 13 members and may include an occasional male one of the drama students...
...Boston Committee is no exception to the rule. With the end of the election, its function shifts from electioneering to planning, and many NBC workers may find the job of researching far duller than the dramatic campaign. And the temptation to temporarily withdraw from civic life must press strongly on the NBC policy-makers and officers, many of whom have hardly seen the inside of their offices since last July...
Setback. Politicians who got close to him during that spell were somewhat astonished at what they saw. Dulles turned out to be a man who preferred bourbon, who had an unexpected, thunderous guffaw, and who relished campaigning. His easy manner belied the crack inevitably attached to his name: "dull, duller, Dulles." He refused to talk down. He went from town to town, a slouched figure in an upturned soft hat, looking more like a threadbare professor than a Wall Street lawyer. But he lost to one of New York's great votegetters, four-term Governor Herbert Lehman. Not only...
...lower pitch, and with more sublety. Dramatically, "Right You Are" would then have had to stand on its intellectual content, which could have been bolstered by more conviction on the part of the actors. On the other hand, that would certainly have made the play longer, probably duller, and possibly just as limiting, so perhaps the director and east did as well as they could...