Word: dullness
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Keynes was posted to the India Office, but the civil service proved deadly dull, and he soon left. He lectured at Cambridge, edited an influential journal, socialized with his Bloomsbury friends, surrounded himself with artists and writers and led an altogether dilettantish life until Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo and Europe was plunged into World War I. Keynes was called to Britain's Treasury to work on overseas finances, where he quickly shone. Even his artistic tastes came in handy. He figured a way to balance the French accounts by having Britain's National Gallery...
...happening in the first place, from raping or killing them to labeling them "cheap." In parts of Latin America and the Middle East, "honor killings" of wayward daughters or sisters are common and treated indulgently by the courts. In some African countries, young women have their clitorises excised to dull their sexual appetite. If women are the innately more monogamous sex, why the widespread and fanatic efforts to get them to keep their legs crossed...
...Oscar ceremony to "sit on their hands" when Kazan accepts his award unless he recants his sins. This curious plan represents something of a tactical retreat for Polonsky, who only weeks ago was "hoping someone shoots [Kazan]" because "it would no doubt be a thrill on an otherwise dull evening...
Silver-tongued George W. Bush aside, the presidential candidates for 2000 are in dire need of better speaking skills. Speech and media expert Robert Dickman, voice-presentation coach Candice Coleman and positive-thinking guru Tony Robbins assess five hopeful but dull Speechmakers-in-Chief...
Besides being dull, the plot entirely fails to come together at the end. The Wheel of Fortune theme that seems to show such promise never comes through and seems ultimately unrelated to the novel's meaning. The idea of a man bent on causing apocalypse to wipe out the consumer society is little more than a regurgitation of long overused cliches. And neither is the message of Messiah any major surprise. The messiah saves the world through-what else?-love! Here is a safe and time tested-vision but one incapable of laying claim to any originality...