Word: dullness
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...great many West Germans of the postwar generation feel real regret at the passing of the Federal Republic in which they grew up -- a prosperous demistate, secure, moderate, perhaps even a bit dull. That sort of constructive nostalgia will color the new Germany and probably should be encouraged -- even by friendly countries like the U.S. and the European neighbors, all of whom hope for great deeds from the new power...
...time has passed. I'm very tired. I'm at the age when I have nothing before me but the past. My future is only to go to my grave. I am not afraid of death. In fact, I want to die. My situation is so dull and boring. But I do want this opportunity to express my opinion one last time...
...introduce myself and make an attention- grabbing statement. I think I have a winner: I am 39 years old and I am going through freshman orientation on assignment for TIME. I needn't have wasted my breath. One look at my adult face and khaki shorts -- so dull compared with the colorful ersatz boxers in vogue among the young -- and they know I am not one of them...
...dispatch, Murphy described the Iraqi attack on the Emir's palace as seen from her hotel window. "Throughout the day," she wrote, "the sound of machine-gun and mortar fire echoed through the city as a dull percussion accompaniment" to the siege. A few days later, she described the captured city as being like "the eye of a storm" as the main highways "give off a low hum from the washboard-like ruts caused by the tread of heavy tanks...
...equally hard to understand Ford's owlish performance as Sabich. He is supposed to be a smart, aggressive lawyer, tops at his trade. But Ford is mostly dull and inward looking, at best cranky where he should be vigorous and resourceful. There are some excellent things in Presumed Innocent: Scacchi's erotic heat as she lures Sabich into adultery; Paul Winfield's sardonic knowingness as he presides over Sabich's trial; Brian Dennehy's deadly impassivity as he betrays a friend to protect his career. Each anatomizes a subspecies of the political animal with finely observed accuracy. Each gives...