Word: dulling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...like the people we all know who keep getting into embarrassing scrapes until you eventually realize that it’s their way of making themselves the center of attention. With Bok, by contrast, you always knew that the institution came first. People may have thought of him as dull, but my guess is that he never minded that as long as Harvard seemed exciting. I don’t think it’s any accident, for instance, that when he retired his name was given to a low-key but much-needed program devoted to making Harvard professors...
...survive indefinitely outside the body of the mother. There is even scientific evidence that between weeks 20 and 30, the unborn child is even more sensitive to pain than a living child or adult. Despite having the ability to experience pain, the unborn child does not develop mechanisms to dull the effect of pain until week 30. Subjecting an unborn child to an extremely painful procedure at the time when it is most vulnerable to pain is unquestionably inhumane. And yet this is exactly what partial-birth abortion involves. By the fifth month, the child’s head...
...recent years, the Academy Awards broadcast has come under fire for being overlong and dull. Last year, the show’s producers trimmed its runtime by a half hour and tapped outspoken comedian Chris Rock to give the program some much needed “edge.” To the delight of viewers—and the horror of many stars—Rock used the hosting gig to skewer Hollywood egos and lampoon the self-importance of the entertainment industry. But his barbs may have been a little too incisive—he was not invited back...
...shame, then, that the song to which the video is set is a disappointment. If this first single is the best they can muster, the new album, “Show Your Bones,” due out this March, will sound more like a dull White Stripes imitation than the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ searing previous work. Where on their debut album, their sound was packed full of edge, passion, and finger-in-the-socket guitar innovation, the new sound of the band, or at least what can be gleaned from their latest track, is comparatively conservative...
...real close reader of Deborah Solomon because I find the New York Times Magazine so dull. There are times when I’ve found it’s just shock value for her. It’s like high concept entertainment. In some ways, the most neutral questions will prompt the most honest answers. I don’t think it’s good journalism to get people to say something because they feel awkward, make a gaffe, and that becomes news...