Word: dullness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...music, but it is easily confused, and this year's 50th annual Grammy nominations, announced this morning, prove it. Herbie Hancock and Vince Gill for album of the year? A record of the year nod for Corrine Bailey Rae's Like a Star, which isn't just aggressively dull, but was first released in 2005? A best new artist nomination for veteran singer Leslie Feist? As pop cultural statements go, these are the equivalent of "Who stole my glasses...
...Faux Friends? I hope Joel Stein doesn't believe that the 50 million Facebook members are the superficial, dull, self-centered people he described, or else I would feel a bit offended [Nov. 19]. Although I use the website, I don't finish all my sentences with 10 exclamation points, and I still appreciate a good dinner with wine. Many Facebook members don't attach importance to popularity but just want to entertain themselves. They have enough personality to know they are not losers if their contact list doesn't beat all the records. MySpace and Facebook are part...
...even those who rejoiced at Tony Blair's exit, had worried that their brainy, brawny Chancellor of the Exchequer was too complex and introspective to make an effective Prime Minister. Instead, the contrast between Brown and his quicksilver predecessor helped to win over skeptics. Yes, the new Premier was dull by comparison, but reassuringly...
...Great War did not improve matters. The writer Cyril Connolly—cheery fellow this one—wrote to his friend that he was “tired of the country...I do feel it is a dying civilization—decadent, but in such a damned dull way—going stuffy and comatose instead of collapsing beautifully like France.” Similarly, returning from India in 1922, E.M. Forster described post-war England with an oriental flourish—as “a person who has folded her hands and stands waiting...
...college—the rigorous pursuit of liberal arts—because they can’t escape the résumé padding of their earlier years. They continue to take courses they’re not really interested in and they participate in activities they find dull because these are the ways to land jobs at Goldman Sachs...