Word: dulling
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...this side can play, so effervescent and joyous and tireless. Then you read the names on the backs of the jerseys. Reality check. All that sleep must have dulled your brain cells. These guys are Japanese. You're not one to stereotype, but the last time you checked, Japan was a land of pachinko-playing automatons, dull conformists who wear uniforms to work and school, and who never, ever jaywalk. When did they start having fun? When did they all become blond...
From ex-gay cooks and marijuana-trafficking managers to fruit flies and food fights, there was never a dull moment in the dining halls this past year...
...when it comes to telling the story of one of jazz's most protean geniuses (which is, after all, what a biographer is supposed to do), he achieves what I would have thought impossible - he makes one of the most engrossing lives in the history of American music seem dull...
...others have suggested that a sense of complacency had developed within France’s two main parties and that they were upstaged by a crafty campaign from Le Pen’s National Front. None of these views is incorrect. Jospin is, by all accounts, an honest but dull man who has trouble inspiring confidence. A selection of seven parties split left-wing support, with three different—but similarly laughable—Trotskyist parties garnering 11 percent of the vote. Jospin’s Socialists and Chirac’s Rally for the Republic Party ran extremely...
...know that teachers and principals have a very tough job. And of course they should be on the lookout for signs of violent behavior. But let's keep our hysteria to a dull roar, shall we? Becca Johnson shouldn't be punished for doodling. If anything she should be rewarded for showcasing her pent-up annoyance in such a peaceful and non-destructive manner. Rather than suspend Becca, let's take a moment to give her a round of applause. And it sounds to me like she could also use an art class...