Word: dulling
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...words and at the same time exquisite and emotional. In “Don’t Disappear,” McCaughan sings softly and longingly: “And in this dream we were terribly tall, wobbly and weak / And I was afraid we would fall / Impaled on dull silver mass of antennae / And I wanted to grab you, but you were so skinny...
Tired of stale movies and staticky Muzak on those long, dull airplane rides? Song Airways, a new cut-rate carrier operated by Delta Air Lines, plans to offer flyers a much needed upgrade of in-flight entertainment...
...Students who do not wish to participate in discussion should not have to. If there are interesting points brought up in a section which they do not attend—useful for either intellectual enrichment or a future exam—that is their loss. If the section is dull or useless, then no one should have to attend. Forcing students to contribute to discussions in which they are uninterested is a waste of everyone’s time, adversely affecting other students’ experiences as well as wasting the TF’s time and attention...
Let’s start by beaming C-SPAN far and wide so that all the doubters can see the excruciatingly dull debates about education funding or agricultural subsidies. Let them watch as a no-name representative inarticulately stumbles through a speech about price supports for grain. Let’s show the pandemonium on the House floor as a congressperson tries to speak above the din of scurrying pages and strategizing staffers...
...bunch of blue-capped kids—some two years removed from puberty, others two seasons shy of prosperity—trot onto the field to a dull roar. Nine-year-olds with baseball mitts perk up, eagerly awaiting the chance to snag a foul ball...