Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lesser roles, John Seidman makes much more of the servant Fabian than customary, Philip Carling is a dull and amateurish Valentine, Michael Levin is an adequate Antonio, and Tom McLaughlin speaks with too much preciosity for a Sea Captain...
Jenner was slightly livelier in manner and, though selected by the Republicans, came across more like a prosecutor than Doar. Observed Republican Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York: "Doar deliberately cultivates a monotone to try to avoid revealing personal biases or coloring the facts. It's awfully dull." Indeed, within an hour after the opening of the first day of hearings, Democratic Representative James Mann of South Carolina fell asleep...
...annually. As prices drop (one model was selling for only $22 last week), consumers are snapping them up to check cost-per-unit prices at the supermarket, balance checkbooks, figure out tax returns and do their schoolwork. But all work and no play makes even a calculator a dull gimmick, and now the little machines can be used as electronic Merlins...
...sister and her husband, both deeply tanned, waiting in their MG. I climbed into the back, and we sped through South San Francisco into the city. Fortunately, it was dark, so I didn't see the heavy industry or the huge sign painted on rocks and set into a dull green hill, saying, "Welcome to South San Francisco...
...brown of Marin heights across the channel. Ray and I climbed down on the deep-scarred rocks and went into a small cave hidden between a deep cut in the rocks. We could hear the small waves smack crisply outside, but inside the small grotto our voices were dull and hollow. Ray began talking about school...