Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Incapable of Ugliness. The Met's revival of Turandot, its first in 31 years, made up for much in the way of dull productions earlier in the season. Turandot (last syllable pronounced dot) remains the one Puccini work that appeals almost as much to the mind as to the heart. Writing for three years, under the shadow of death,* the composer was determined to move away from what he had come to regard as his earlier "slight" music. "Create for me something that will make the world weep," he instructed his librettists. In their adaptation of Carlo Gozzi...
Running the house, once a good enough home but now much the worse for bomb damage, is Dan, an ex-navyman who is good at repairs, rapacious for rent money, and not above sharp practices akin to stealing. He is dull, sexually primitive and demanding, but he has just the wife to understand and cope with him. Flo had the great good luck to have an Italian grandmother. She cooks overpowering meals, handles her brutish husband with a nice Mediterranean mixture of tears, seeming ignorance and docility. She is greedy and vulgar, and yet so full of the juices...
...term of contempt for the men who did nothing but shoot. "The kids are making shots we wouldn't even dare take," says Detroit's Coach McGuire, a crack playmaker during his career. "The science is going out of the game and it's becoming dull. Who wants to watch Wilt stuff them in? We need playmaking badly." Cousy notes wistfully: "The shooting has reached such a status that the playmaker is now unnecessary...
Admittedly, one can overdraw the picture of Oxford as a place where leisurely living and scintillating wit prevail. "We are getting dull" has been the theme of several letters and articles in recent undergraduate publications. Entrance requirements consisting entirely of a rigorous examination attach little value to the well-rounded school record or to personal evidence of untapped ability; rising academic standards and an expanded scholarship program inevitably produce fewer parties and more hours devoted to sheer hard work...
Miller's third and most irksome flaw is suddenly to change the way his characters talk, from common speech to rhetorical and poetic common speech, whenever he approaches a climactic scene. His dialogue, which is usually dull, becomes silly...