Word: dulling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...where Bush gets his lowest marks. No wonder nervous Bush aides reached out last week to at least one prominent Republican who had been critical of the Administration and asked him to tone it down. They called allies in the House and told them to keep it to a dull roar...
...commercial title, Kennedy's book is a dry, legalistic account of the myriad ways in which the word has been used since it first appeared in the brutal vocabulary of 18th century slave owners. Given the powerful emotions the term has always stirred, his 226-page account is surprisingly dull...
Even by the dull standards of home videos, the tape is notably unexciting: a shaky, amateurish pan along a typically busy Singapore street, with views of a subway station and passing commuters. A bland voice provides a running commentary in well-educated English, a litany of street names and building numbers. But then comes a chilling remark: as the camera zooms in on a parking area, the narrator advises his viewers to "notice some of the boxes placed on the motorcycles, these are the same type of boxes that we intend to use"?to plant a bomb. The narrator describes...
Cooper later compares Wurtzel to La Traviata or a martyred saint: a figure we love to watch suffer. “Ordinary suffering tends to be kind of dull, whereas the Passion of Liz is pathos raised to the pitch of art porn,” he writes in an e-mail. “Agony on ecstasy. If drag queens are not dressing as Elizabeth Wurtzel 30 years down the road, I’ll be deeply surprised...
...down. Of all the times I have seen the show, including the inconsistent movie and the current London revival, I have never laughed less than at this production. The play is still funny—there is no way Noises Off cannot be—but this revival seems dull in casting, directing and execution...