Word: dullness
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...agency protocol. One of the first things he does is send O'Neill out to steal a new computer from their colleagues down the hall. What begins to emerge, almost inferentially from Cooper's taciturn playing, is a portrait of a sharp knife nestled in drawer full of dull ones. A man this bright should have been on the bureau's fast track. Instead, he's on a side track, chugging along a bureaucratic road to nowhere. Hanssen's fuming impatience with the patronizing doofuses who have held him back is well, even comically, stated in the script written...
Although Field Music’s aims are surely noble, their album is ultimately hard to listen to and rather dull. It provides a scavenger hunt for Beatles fans and not much else. Despite demonstrating promising possibilities for the future, Field Music is still from Sunderland, not Liverpool...
...crowd had opted to show up the night before instead, to see a comparatively dull men’s game between the same two schools in which BC easily downed the Crimson, 3-1, at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston. The game that I saw took place at the Eagles’ Conte Forum, a nice venue but far from the big stage reserved for the men, and the 723 people in attendance could hardly be called a crowd, especially when you consider that Harvard’s band made up a significant proportion of that 723?...
...going at once. He almost never comments on individual lyrics, although he will protest if he thinks something is emotionally untrue. ("He's great at productive antagonism," says Chili Peppers' singer Anthony Kiedis.) Instead, he uses beach walks and quiet meals to get people to open up. "Writing is dull and unglamorous stuff," says Rubin. "For most people, it's really pretty miserable. But if you write 30 songs, there's a better chance that the 10 on your album will be better than if you just write...
...Castle in the Forest” focused almost exclusively on Mailer’s decision to include a bibliography, it was a sign that something was wrong.As it turns out, there are many “somethings” wrong with the novel: a frequently dull plot supported by flaccid prose, an inability to fully comprehend or adequately portray its complex and weighty subject, an overriding sense of banality posing as profundity, and a philosophical heart that is as intellectually dissatisfying as it is morally troubling. Of course, it also contains intermittent hints of brilliance, but they come...