Word: dullness
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...span, panic erupted when military policemen announced that it was about to be closed. Somehow our truck was allowed to pass, but even as we inched across the bridge, Wehrmacht sappers were attaching charges to its stone arches, and moments after we reached the other side, we heard the dull explosive thump that indicated the span had been blown. A few minutes later and we would have been blocked on the other shore...
Lourdes, like a Chekhovian heroine yearning for Moscow, has dreams only of leaving for the U.S., and this American may be her passport out. But Richard already has a wife, and in order to rescue his Eve he has to enlist the support of an acquaintance, a dull young English schoolteacher named Hugo, in a marriage of convenience. How the plans go awry and what consequences await the sultry Lourdes in provincial England provide one of the novel's darker, not to say drizzlier, ironies. As another character remarks, "In Cuba, you believe everything or you believe nothing. Because everything...
Some may argue that it destroys part of the college experience to homogenize and dull the flavor of the houses. I agree, but it is also necessary to insure that misplaced students are not absolutely miserable. The current system allows houses to retain enough of their former personalities to keep things interesting, While making them diverse enough that any blocking group will be able to feel at home...
...significant move last December, the house of Anne Klein released Richard Tyler, a sharp tailor known for his Hollywood connections, in favor of Patrick Robinson, only 28, who had masterminded Armani's Collezioni line. Robinson's first effort, put together hastily after his appointment, was both safe and dull, but his attitude has to have retailers cheering. "The point," he says, "is to create excitement in the stores, not the runways...
...commerce: three times a day a boy delivers slaughtered birds and boxes of white rice to the refugees, who may wait days or weeks for their boat to leave. For a few pesos extra, he will bring a bottle of Brugal, the local rum, to kill the boredom and dull any fears about the dangers that lie ahead. "The town depends on the trips," says an older resident. "When the weather is bad or the police ask for more money and the trips slow down, it becomes like a graveyard...