Word: dullness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Steven’s children are dull, trust-fund children. His daughter studies art and lives with her erudite, left-wing professor, and his son is a playboy who is initiallly afraid of commitment but finds love—incidentally, with one of the contestants of the show— and is reformed...
...much. The cinematography and score of “The New World” are beautifully done, and Kilcher’s exquisite acting shines, but the film remains unsatisfying and static.The constant pans of sunsets over rivers and birds rising into a gray sky get dull after the first few times they appear. Even the understated quality of the interactions between Pocahontas and Smith appear a little contrived. After all, what two people really maintain a relationship by sitting and staring at each other in loving silence?Malick attempts to convey his message about love and colonialism through symbolism...
...Hilton was fed lines on The Simple Life). But Jeff Bartsch, a freelance reality-show editor, says there are many ways of using footage to shape a story. Bartsch worked on Blind Date, a syndicated dating show that features hookups gone right--and comically wrong. If a date was dull or lukewarm, the editors would juice the footage by running scenes out of order or out of context. To make it seem like a man was bored, they would cut from his date talking to a shot of him looking around and unresponsive--even though it was taken while...
...memoir would be very dull,” he says frankly. “No one will buy it because there were no inner struggles in my upbringing...
...Alito hearings are so dull that that woman in Cincinnati who was dead in front of her TV for two years--she got up and turned them off." --DAVID LETTERMAN...