Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dull and uninspiring music makes Forbert's attempt at eclecticism a disaster...
...volumes of Beaton's diaries preceded this abridged collection, but in this case less truly is more. The dull passages have been excised, and only the best remain, glittering stories about glittering people. Cocteau and Colette, Coward and Capote, Garbo and De Gaulle. Advising the young Beaton about clothes, Noel Coward, for instance, sounds like one of his own characters. "One would like to indulge one's own taste," he says. "[But] I take ruthless stock of myself in the mirror before going out. A polo jumper or unfortunate tie exposes one to danger...
Since the IRS makes it worthwhile for the rich to benefit from purchasing art, the IRS also has a moral obligation to make it easier for artists to survive. The fact is that without the contribution of artists' creations, our lives would be very dull...
Theirs has often been called the romance of the century, but they held the title only for want of contenders. In fact, according to this new British recounting, they were both dull and not a little dense...
...walls in the basement study room (the dungeon) or in dinner table conversation ("I'm in this course, see, history of psychology, and the main text is by a guy named Boring. No kidding. And when Boring taught the course 30 years ago, he used a book by Dull and Dull." A voice from the other table says, "What was that, I didn't hear." "Well I'm in this course, see...). It goes beyond having to cook for 25 people, a feat that can terrorize the neophyte (as it did me) and even occasionally end in a culinary fiasco...