Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a real sense of life and of action, conveyed both by her affectionate gesture and her friendly glance. He has grouped the two in one of his own inventive designs, simple and vigorous, and he has suppressed all matters of form and shadow, to intensify it with color, dull red and green and white...
Jones attacked the "feudal system" now in practice where a student is under the special protection and guiding hand of one man. He said that the present laxity in examinations accounts for many "dull theses" and "dull teachers...
...Strickland (Baptist) reported that since his people have taken up the Lord's Acre Plan he has performed more baptisms. Said he: "The work of the Lord's Acre makes good churches better churches, and good people better people. It also makes good churches out of dull ones...
...Gorki wanted to write 2,700 pages about this dull and will-less man is almost as great a mystery as the Moscow trials that disclosed a fantastic story of Gorki's death.* The Specter begins with Samghim feebly awakened by an interest in a bold, mysterious client, Marina Zotova, who is mixed up in some shady negotiations over the sale of property in the Urals. But soon after they meet in Paris she is murdered, and suspicion of him in his home town drives him to Moscow. His wife, from whom he has been separated for years, dies...
...early life Walt Whitman was a conventional poet of modest gifts, a Brooklyn editor, author of a dull temperance novel, a Democrat, a radical. In the Civil War, after years of drifting, he found himself, and for a brief period became the great spokesman for the spirit of radical humanitarianism. But the exact steps of his transformation are not known and even the biographical details of his life are confused, as Whitman apparently intended they should...