Word: dulling
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Sure, I’ve had my share of awkward academic encounters. I taught a Monday section that was almost entirely mute except for the occasional sound of my voice, the dull hum of an electric clock, the gentle heave of someone’s hungover breathing and the faint notes of Led Zeppelin emanating from one student’s set of badly hidden headphones...
...This is not the kind of resistance that drug users build up over time or that bacteria develop against antibiotics, but it is nonetheless important. Aspirin is one of our most commonly used over-the-counter medications and is something of a miracle drug. It can do everything from dull the pain of a headache to reduce--as much as 25%--the risk of a stroke or heart attack...
...Sally Field returns to TV as a rookie Justice on a divided Supreme Court. The pilot is earnest and jargon laden, like producer John Wells' ER and The West Wing--and as stiff and colorless as a freshly starched robe. A big problem is Field's Kate Nolan, a dull, middle-of-the-road pillar of common sense whose tough streak Field undercuts with her doe-eyed, first-day-of-school demeanor. There are hints of intrigue, but the lifeless characters and boilerplate dialogue need judicial review...
Think of Jessica Stein as yet another victim in the endless urban guerrilla warfare of today's battle of the sexes. Trapped in a dull job, her ambitions as a painter thwarted, she draws her hopeless dating choices from a dismal sludge of geeks, nerds and cranks...
...faux-backlot feel means that the place looks like the Volvo of theme parks. It's fine on the inside, but boxy and dull outside. No surprise, then, that the Studios are aimed at an older audience than Disneyland. "We're trying to attract a 'new' public with cinema and some-thing a little more pedagogical," says CEO Jay Rasulo. CinéMagique, a clever retrospective of memorable moments from American and European film, does that well. But this is still family vacation terri-tory. Will that Flying Carpet ride, one (admittedly cool) stunt show and a work-shop where...