Word: dullness
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...perhaps not. Taiwan's tensions with China are once again reaching boiling point, raising the distant but real possibility that Wong's stint in the army might be anything but dull. Last week, a People's Liberation Army general, Peng Guangqian, warned that China is willing to wage war with Taiwan to prevent it from declaring independence?whatever the cost. Writing in a Beijing journal controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, Peng said China would brave a boycott of the Olympic Games, a drop in foreign investment, an economic downturn, even regional instability in order "to uphold national unity...
...best stuff is produced by nuns of the convent of Santo Domingo el Antiguo. The Cistercian sisters use very little artificial coloring and not a whole lot of sugar, so their marzipan is usually a dull off-white, but delightfully light. Buy a $5 box and grab a coffee from one of the caf?s near Plaza Zocodover, then board the Tren Imperial (a toy train on wheels) for a scenic ride around the city. It's a feast for the stomach, the eyes and the soul...
...Church” recreates a Christian mass from organs, disparate choral fractions and a persistent solitary fuzz-synth preacher. “Gone” is bombarded with the memories of a lost love, culminating in a cathartic screech that clears out until all that remains is the dull memory of the sensation. With only Crayola-simple synth beats and the occasional muted female vocalist at their disposal, French duo M83 paint a collection of vivid masterpieces...
...girls that Levine profiles in the book are not at all meek or dull, qualities that Levine had thought would be fostered by the single-sex atmosphere in which Lubavitch girls live. Levine admits that she expected the this atmosphere to be a negative aspect of the girls’ lives, finding instead that it prevented them from falling into typical female sex role attitudes because there was no other sex role to compare theirs...
...Much of the ‘factual’ material is dull and largely uncritical recitation of Soviet sources,” he wrote in his subsequent eight-page report, “whereas his efforts at ‘analysis’ are very effective renditions of the Stalinist leadership’s self-understanding of their murderous and progressive project to defeat the backwardness of Slavic, Asiatic peasant Russia...