Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lousy day, and a dull ball game, but the varsity baseball team still won its tenth straight game--its longest winning streak in 22 years--rolling over M.I.T., 15 to 2, yesterday...
...residents are exposed, clinging to small illusions and scapegoats. The influence of Chekhov on Hellman's play has been pointed out before, and it is strongest in the way characters reveal themselves without self-description, and in the brevity of exposition. Unfortunately, the dull set at the Charles did not enhance the sense of a crumbling milieu that Autumn Garden evokes, and the three-sided stage robbed the audience of 33 per cent of the performances...
...takes place at The Patisserie: MARK: (Describing his summer) I was working out west, travelling the migrant workers. (His voice excited). It was wonderful. . . HEATHER: You must have a real proletarian. (Laughing description) Did you like being MARK: Not really. I thought it be romantic, but they're actually dull. . . . (He turned to Ginny) least they have...
...Paul Valery. who said he had never written a novel because he could not bear to set down the banal first words, "The Marquise went out at five." The book is to be taken as an answer to Valery's implied charge that plain statement of fact is dull. "A pure exercise in virtuosity, you might say at first glance," says Mauriac. "Yet never gratuitous. But how to exhaust the gifts of reality?" Mauriac, who explains that he prefers literal exactitude to literature because he has "purified [his writing] of the last traces of fiction," certainly displays more than...
...always seemed to him to be the better twin of boredom. When he retired in 1935, he was king of the world's matadors, more than a millionaire, a hero in his native Spain, spoken of in the same breath with Cervantes and Goya. But life grew dull as it grew safer. When a friend told him he had no choice but to die tragically, his answer held no other hope. "I'll see what I can do," Belmonte said...