Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's growing incapacity has started an inevitable, if unseemly scramble for the succession. Messmer, who can be both dull and irascible at the same time, is generally ruled out as a possible President, and the race seems to be between former Premier Jacques Cha-ban-Delmas, 58, and Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing...
...high creative talent, and persons whose fathers are wealthy Harvard alumni would be affected. If applicants were evaluated on the basis of two sets of numbers alone, not only would Harvard be ignoring many, many persons with talents immeasurable in quantitative terms, but it would probably have a very dull, undiverse student body as well...
...levels of refinement which further enrich both the entity and the totality. For example, the buildings in the Yard are consistent in scale, materials, and architectural treatment--eaves line up, windows and roofscapes have similar rhythms. There is, however, considerable variety within these limits, and the result is never dull. The grass is enlivened by a rich pattern of pedestrian paths. And the trees--with the exception of three, one in each major yard--are deciduous, so full in summer that one can barely see the sky, so bare and graceful in winter that the eye concentrates without distraction...
Poems about the writing of poems can be pretty unbearably self-indulgent or just plain dull. Strand makes you forget that, while Orr barely escapes the problem...
Kunstler kept stressing the trial's political angle in court, too. Later that week, he interrupted the dull jury selection with a charge--an insinuation, really--that FBI agents had tried to sway local news coverage of the event. The spectators--largely Indian and all Watergate-conscious--sat up in their seats when they heard this. But the judge and one of the prosecutors couldn't understand what Kunstler was so riled about...