Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arid regions is almost as silly as trying to grow kelp. Americans have belawned 25 million to 30 million acres, an area larger than Virginia. Lawn is our connection to the English manor houses to which most of us cannot trace our ancestors; it is the decent, respectably dull necktie we knot around our houses...
With enormous amounts of air time to fill, these all-news channels can be dull and repetitive. Their audiences, moreover, are still small; neither of the local news channels now in operation is turning a profit. But industry observers contend that these channels fill a need, and will eventually attract plenty of viewers and provide a lucrative advertising niche. "News is the most expensive programming," says media analyst Paul Kagan. "But for a cable system, it is a big traffic builder." So those traffic reports will come in handy...
...when Duany and Plater-Zyberk were hired by quixotic developer Robert Davis to turn 80 acres of Gulf Coast scrubland into a resort, that they ceased being merely interesting architects and started becoming visionary urban planners. As with all revolutions, the essential idea was simple: instead of building another dull cluster of instant beach-front high- rises, the developer and designers wondered, why not create a genuine town, with shops and lanes and all the unpretentious grace and serendipitous quirks that have always made American small towns so appealing? Thus was born the town of Seaside -- and with...
...story about contemporary neuroses, Kundera has fabricated a context in which everything, literally, can be claimed to matter. What is more, the author indulges this obsessiveness without ever droning or turning out a dull page. In its inventiveness and its dazzling display of what written words can convey, Immortality gives fiction back its good name...
...Harrison's injury and the impersonality of the hospital staff. Doctors and nurses must act detached to perform their jobs effectively, and in portraying the hospital personnel, the actors must adopt this same aloofness. Contrasted with the emotional charge of Harrison's scenes, those featuring these professionals are often dull...