Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dull roots with spring rain...
...announcing midnight. "I am one of the few people I know," says Burton, "who drinks only when he works." And this is true. Between plays or films, his intake dwindles toward zero. But when he is working, he has "to burn up the flatness?the stale, empty, flat, dull deadness that one feels when one comes off a stage...
...saying it is "soft as a baby's bum." Her parents stop in from time to time to sip black velvets with their new fun-in-law. null or without company, Elizabeth tries to stay close by him 25 hours a day, filling poor Richard's almanac with some dull stretches of prose as well as short bursts of poetry. During most of the winter, he would slip out to see his family several times a week, playing
...Washington Cathedral. A sniveling thing to do, perhaps, but it is an important qualification. The Choral Society, for one thing, was too frail when its parts were exposed. Yet what in some ways limited the Glee Club's performance helped in others: at times its resonant sound became dull--particularly in the opening narrative--but elsewhere created awesome solidity. Yet, because the oratorio's greatest asset is its power and not its drama, the Glee Club's distinctive sound was quite in place...
...slightly vague on occasion, has great taste, insight, and style. Her graciousness as a hostess has provoked a Lowell tutor to describe her, with certain provide, as "natively a lady." Her penchant for animation has prevented many a potentially dull social entertainment from becoming...