Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...didn't dare believe it. So the hour went by and Wenny shot himself and was luckier than the other two who went on living in Limbo-Nancibel, at the last, a pathetic dabbler in the stale waters of ineffective spiritualism; Fanshawe, the fastidious, doomed to a dull eternity of tea with professors' wives. A bitter, excellent novel of youth's frustration...
...summarize; "Sons and Lovers" is a careful and detailed account of a rather sub-normal life. It is well written, very well written. But still one wonders just why Mr. Lawrence should have written at all about such a commonplace and dull topic...
...ballad kept the memory of this dreadful deed green. Then a short time ago a clever reporter came upon a man registering at a hotel as E. Robinson Casey. With sudden inspiration he cried. "Why, did you do it?" "I couldn't help it," Mr. Casey replied in a dull and automatic tone, "the umpire called 'em wrong...
...pretty wife who has succumbed to the diverting futility of doing nothing. He has surrounded her with a group of exceedingly rarefied representatives of London's smart society. He has attached her to a husband who disapproves. His-the husband's- conversation is a trifle dull and his necktie lacks a certain trim orthodoxy. They could hardly be expected...
Their opponents proclaim that Art and the public, hand in hand, are recipients of equal benefit. Art gains freedom of expression; the public is armed with facts to face a universal problem. With immorality out in the open even the dull-witted citizen can get a shot...