Word: dullness
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Have you looked at any seniors recently? They're dressed pretty nicely, in button-down shirts, khakis, black pants, etc. But they have bags under their dull, glazed-over eyes. Their brows are often furrowed. You ask them what is wrong? "Recruiting," they reply...
...swords, whose scabbards and other fittings were always adorned with lacquer. Clearly too he liked innovations in technique that may seem small to us but, in the tradition-bound and slow-moving context of Japanese art and design, were quite significant. One was the near alchemical contrast of dull lead inlay and bright gold detail on black lacquer in works like the beautiful writing box named Ashibune, or "Reed Boat...
...October, it's only just begun. Investors know why they're anxious: High oil prices and high interest rates make Europe a dull boy - one who doesn't buy as many Macs, Dells, Gateways or the chips that go into them as those companies and their investors are used to. There's fretting about the U.S. slowdown being too slow and too down, and whether a tightening Greenspan got ambushed by crude-oil prices...
Though the result was generally dull and rehashed many of the issues from Tuesday's presidential debate, a few exchanges provided new positions, specifically those on racial profiling and questions of gay marriage. In particular, Cheney's remarks about civil unions for gays--in which he suggested that the issue should be left up to individual states--is a welcome step forward from the traditional Republican stance that refuses to accommodate, in any form, such civil unions...
...diplomatic isolation, Serbs were ready for a man decidedly lacking in charisma and historical ambition. Barred from broadcast media, Kostunica diligently drove from village to town, averaging five stops a day, speaking directly to the people. He wooed them with the prospect of being "normal" again, promising "a dull, average European country with an average economy, an average relationship with its neighbors, an average political life." When Milosevic's thugs pelted him with tomatoes and rocks at a campaign rally, he took a cut beneath the eye before retreating, then calmly declared that the assault showed "Milosevic is weaker than...