Word: dulling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...loses in 2000 must spend the next four years repairing his greatest weakness. The yammering classes have decided that Gore's problem is a weird, deficient personality, and Bush's is a dull, incurious brain. I have sometimes suspected the reverse: that Gore is a nicer guy than imagined but not as smart as he would like everyone to think; and that Bush is smarter, but a lot less nice, than he seems. The two men even out, in some irritating...
...When school gets irritating or frustrating or dull, I can just leave," Bridges says. "Being able to get distance from school has been one of the greatest perks of having my car here...
Gore's stand-in is Warren Christopher, the man who put the elder in statesman. He's so dull, he ordered Irish coffee during a layover at Shannon Airport with the instruction, "Hold the whiskey, and make it decaf." His very presence undercuts former Secretary of State James Baker's dire warnings that if we persist in this crazy "unconstitutional" recount, markets will collapse, world leaders will wobble and general mischief will abound. In Baker's view, the bipartisan counters are secret croupiers itching to stack the deck. There are more surveillance cameras than in a Las Vegas casino...
This is how Roberts got her spotlight. As a county commissioner, she sits on the canvassing board, a job that most find dull but she enjoys because she likes to be in the action on election night. For her, the unending election night was heaven--and Palm Beach the red-hot center of paradise. After a sample of ballots were hand counted for an excruciating 17 hours and Gore picked up extra votes, Roberts did the math in her head: if he got 19 more votes from recounting only 1% of the ballots, he might get 1,900 more votes...
...loses in 2000 must spend the next four years repairing his greatest weakness. The yammering classes have decided that Gore's problem is a weird, deficient personality, and Bush's is a dull, incurious brain. I have sometimes suspected the reverse: That Gore is a nicer guy than imagined but not as smart as he would like everyone to think; and that Bush is smarter, but a lot less nice, than he seems. The two men even out, in some irritating...