Word: dullness
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...trunk, which is filled with an overweight hit man, across a dilapidated bridge in the dead of night. The scene is oddly picturesque: a large gray hill in the foreground is overwhelmed by a crystal blue sky, with the actors visible by their shadowed outlines. With an unoriginal plot, dull setting, and lack of humor, all “The Ice Harvest” has to offer is its over-the-top violence. However, the unadulterated gore and violence does more to repulse the viewer than draw him or her into the film. Wherever Charlie looks (bathroom stalls, lounge doors...
...From what I can gather from those who remember, these little revolutionaries brought a passion and zeal to class that spurred everyone to fierce discussion. Even more importantly, they meant that section was never ever dull...
...BOOK WAS BETTER: Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar were really rather dull fellows, and their family lives, when they were in the movie's flatlands (which was most of the time), were drearily miserable in predictable ways. Proulx merely touched contrastingly on that quotidian aspect of their existence and kept the focus on their increasingly tormented romance...
...have to shut down at 2 a.m., all in accordance with party regulations across campus. But some students say that though such a policy would be an improvement, freshman parties are not Harvard’s social forte. “A lot of the freshman parties are pretty dull just because they are aimed at a smaller group of people,” says Gianna M. DeCaro ’09, who lives in Weld Hall. “Freshmen are not used to throwing as many parties.”“It was very rare...
...these extremes of optimism gradually faded into the dull grind of Harvard life, they—and we—began to fade into each other. It was as if we had switched breasts. Catizone started drinking Busch Lights. Schonberger started spending most of his waking hours in Lamont, blogging and watching music videos in the Language Resource Center. Like “Joey from ‘Friends’” [1] and that chimp in the movie “Ed” (perhaps one of the greatest sports films of all time), we began...