Word: dullness
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...seem, at the start of the 20th century color was contentious. Old theories of art still held that the color in a painting should be secondary to the drawing: get the structure down and then color it in. But from the 1870s Impressionism had disturbed this dull consensus. The Impressionists painted outdoors and quickly. They showed that lines did not exist to sight, but were imposed on the world by the mind. In other words, we see structure because we know it exists. The Impressionists gave structure to their paintings by juxtaposing colors. Artists were not content merely to mimic...
Nearly a month later, on Oct. 7, the day U.S. warplanes began bombing Afghanistan, Perez and 1,000 fellow soldiers left Fort Drum for a Soviet-era air base outside the town of Khanabad, Uzbekistan, 90 miles north of the Afghan frontier. Their mission was simple but dull: Secure the airfield. "God, this can't go on for six months," Perez said to himself during one of his 12-hour shifts patrolling the earthen berms that encircle the base. "Something's got to happen...
...family members change too. My brother Ron's eyes show the sweet stoicism that men seem born to possess. But looking more intently, I see the bubble of pain beneath the surface. A father's helplessness has to tear at the fibers of a son's heart like a dull blade. My own eyes have too much history in them, I often think. I was the little girl who worshipped her father, and the young woman who hurt him the way daughters do when their love is needy and true. Now I look at him in a soft, maternal...
Country musicians aren't born dull, but they're quick studies. It is a generally held country principle that rough edges translate into lower sales, so record labels often send their most promising acts to media-training schools for a good dulling down. The stars of the future are then taught how to smile with lots of teeth, tilt their hats at the proper roguish--but not too roguish--angle and repeat variations on the "I'm just so glad to be making the music I love" palaver that plays between videos on Country Music Television. On her first...
...Nash couplet was just the thing for a dull day to let a little pizzazz...