Word: dullness
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...colors and textures may put other artists to shame—his vibrant colors become all the more apparent when placed next to Joseph Ablow’s exhibit, also recently being shown at the Pucker Gallery. While the former pulses with energy, the latter appears dull and tepid by comparison...
...American as Britain's favorite wounded bird of the '90s vanishes. (Hey, if Vivien Leigh could play Scarlett O'Hara...) She fits in, and stands out, perfectly. And as the plot of Bridget Jones's Diary ripens, and two handsome men--rapacious Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and dull Mark Darcy (Colin Firth)--tumble vagrantly into her heart, Zellweger reveals, as in a soul's striptease, Bridget's appeal. Inside this "verbally incontinent spinster" (as Darcy calls her), a brilliant vamp is aching to be set free...
...this is a very romantic romantic comedy. That Firth, who was the dark dreamboat Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, plays dull dreamboat Darcy here simply underlines the comedy-of-manners connection between Helen Fielding's work and Jane Austen's. This, for the most part, is a tale of comic good sense and poignant sensibility...
...most of the year. The chief justice and senior associate justice sit at opposite ends of a rectangular conference table, and thus have unrestricted elbow room. Rehnquist also adds a human element to the workings of the Supreme Court: He and Justice Harry Blackmun shared geography trivia during dull moments on the bench, and Thurgood Marshall was the Court’s raconteur. Rehnquist also justifies the way the current procedure works. He effectively addresses concerns about the Court: that law clerks may wield too much influence, that the majority of cases petitioning for a hearing aren?...
...Amber was the dull one, you say? Amber had upside. She still looked plenty good, and when Colby and she went one-two in the Reward Challenge rope course, she was definitely threatening to join the living, personality-wise. And when she stared down the horizon and uttered those unforgettable words - "Hope. Hope for a fish. A nice night with no rain." - something stirred. She was the savant, the Chauncey Gardiner of the outback, and by the end of all this we'll all be in love with...