Word: dulling
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...Amongst the Canadians, my own thoughts returned to all the unexamined aspects of Great Falls, Montana, the distant and dull place where I grew up and attended school...
...coconuts" actually masks a fear that they themselves might be considered soft, bookish, effeminate. After getting his degree, Malkani spent years trying to turn his dissertation into a nonfiction book. "But my job made it tough, and every time I started to work on the book, it all seemed dull and boring," he says. "I found it easier to write fiction. In fact, it was fun." What he found especially satisfying was that, in the decade since his dissertation, the desi rudeboy culture had grown less threatening, more universal. "I started going to desi nights at London clubs and found...
...Roth's credit that he cannot quite bring himself to write a book as dull and flat as Everyman's concept seems to demand. His style repeatedly breaks its leash, as at the funeral, when the protagonist's brother gives a moving eulogy and his estranged son struggles violently against unbidden grief. But then the narrator interjects that there had been 500 funerals in New Jersey that day and that except for the aforementioned moments, this one was "no more or less interesting than any of the others." It's an astonishing passage: an author arguing, against the evidence...
...first i was like oh snap, but then she pulled me to the dance floor (boyyy she cud boogie) n was like “this is y u shud come here”...i said “Say No More”....n if it eva gets dull, hit me up on the 2way, I’ll get it popping lol3. Be Assertive.http://harvard.facebook.com/profile.php?id=[redacted]Feel free to friend me.4. Holy Shit!! Kaavya Is Not The Only One!On a thread about good books:i really like Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty...
...Your life must be pretty dull in the dorm here,” continues The Modern Lovers song. Biographical similarities aside, the Lovers certainly weren’t talking about people like Katharina Cieplak-von Baldegg when they wrote that line...