Word: dulling
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This is not to say that the play is dull. If one accepts that the play is much more about ideas and situations than it is about plot or character development, it is possible to be completely swept up in the current of words, ideas, and images that comprise “Slavs...
...word “open” in House Master’s Open House has recently taken on a whole new meaning. This semester, Fang Yuan ’07, a Mather House resident, has discovered a way to satisfy her food cravings without succumbing to the dull dining hall dinners. Her plan: to crash all of the House Master’s Open Houses on campus and discover which one is truly the best alternative to Peanut Pad Thai and Country Fried Steak. So far her mission is still in progress...
...Waugh understood better than most that there's almost nothing between the top players in terms of talent: what separates them is the strength of their minds. Over a Test career that spanned two decades, Waugh worked at improving his concentration. That may sound dull. He concentrated well? Big deal. But his ability to shut out distractions and silence his demons was the making of him. In the mid-1990s, a bunch of admiring Sri Lankan players gathered around him after a Test. One asked Waugh whether he meditated, for he was trance-like at the crease. "It was," Waugh...
...debut. You know the band is getting better because the love songs (Walk Away, Eleanor Put Your Boots On) have the courage to be pretty, while the snarling punk-disco romps (Well That Was Easy, I'm Your Villain) codify the lads' idea of losers (the dull, prudish and unstylish) and winners (them). Like all bands that matter, this one is well on its way to becoming a system of belief...
Remember the silly tune from summer camp? The songs that were popular when you were courting? Or the hymn that was sung when your best friend died? Life without music would be pretty dull, and sometimes we lose sight of how powerful melody and rhythm can be in the realm of medicine, particularly with respect to Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers...