Word: dulling
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...think more critically about our own views. Without a willingness to tolerate diversity, we are doomed to myopic cocoons of inefficacy. As Mr. McCain told the press following his heckling at the New School commencement, “I feel sorry for the people who live in a dull world where they can’t listen to the views of others.” In 1966, supporters of the protesters said that just as Americans would have supported student uprisings in Eastern Europe against a visiting Nikita Khrushchev, students should demonstrate against the “butchers of Vietnam...
...hearing that had caused much anticipation in Washington into a bit of a bust. An hour into the Senate hearing, almost half of the members of the public in the audience had left; even Senator Trent Lott walked out, to return only near the very end. Hayden was so dull at one point that many in the room were listening more closely to the Fox TV correspondent who had forgotten to close the door to his broadcast booth and whose reports could be heard by almost everyone in the room. The Senators doing the questioning were far from scintillating either...
...soldiers who protect them - not, as in the past, for money, but as part of an armed campaign. Unless there is change, they say, there will be war. The government and oil companies "don't listen to words," Delta militia member Richard, 27, told Time three weeks ago, the dull roar of a gas flare in the background. "So perhaps they will understand the language of the gun." The nascent insurgency has made Nigeria's oil fields among the most dangerous in the world - and helped push global oil prices past $72 bbl. Nigeria was meant to be part...
...regrettable phrase "in the age of James Frey." Moratorium? Who's with me?) It's not the least of its sins, but it has to be said that the Times list is aggressively boring. I was surprised and pleased - like running into a dear friend at a deadly dull cocktail party - to see Edward P. Jones's The Known World, which won the Pulitzer in 2004, make an appearance, but otherwise it's a very staid, predictable, old, white (except for Morrison and Jones), and male (except for Morrison and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping) bunch. No surprise extra-canonical incursions...
...project I toiled on now enters a phase of legal wrangling whereby incumbent trustees search for a way to keep it off the ballot—a nuisance that has called me back to Montana from Harvard to parse the frustratingly dull technicalities that surround such issues—I feel remarkably unredeemed...