Word: dullness
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...blending himself into history and folklore may have been a strategy to deflect intimacy and embarrassing inquiry. Dawidoff suggests this view, with speculation that Berg had trouble living up to his billing as athlete-scholar- spy and actually felt unworthy. Just as likely, he feared the dull prospect of settling down after baseball and a good war and so decided to schedule the rest of his life as a series of away games...
Margaret is drunk much of the time, but the whiskey does not seem to dull her mind, her ability to utter home truths or her prowess in bed. It just loosens her trigger finger. She lives, just after the turn of the century, not in the Wild West but in the remote hamlet of Witless Bay, Newfoundland (one store, one restaurant, a sawmill and a drydock). Her lover is Fabian Vas, the narrator, who could easily have been the subject of a stultifying art novel. From age 8 he has spent most of his time in inlets and marshes sketching...
...never fears losing voters to the left of its policy stances, so it can only gain voters my moving right. The opposite goes for the party on the right. Eventually, both end up in the center and they split the vote evenly. Of course, this positioning makes democracy exceedingly dull. In stead of majority rule, only a small minority is truly satisfied while the overwhelming majority just copes. Politics becomes a sham, and two parties aren't even necessary anymore. In twenty years, it could be that the names Republican and Democrat will be pure formalities...
...scramble to find the murder weapon continues too; the prosecution seems set on proving it was a stiletto-type knife. Those were the most dramatic highlights of a day once again filled with legalistic volleys between prosecution and defense.Although the exchange between the battling attorneys is often excruciatingly dull, the Simpson saga continues to boost TV viewing. The number of households glued to the tube the first day of the hearings increased the three major networks' audience 25 percent.parpar
...Houston's first-ever professional sports championship. Instead, I was thrilled to death that the enemy couldn't have a clean sweep. It was something to root for in a year when there was nothing for me to root for. And it gave some life to an otherwise dull sports month...