Word: dumbness
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...Keep up the family rituals that have always sustained you all: family dinners, church, camping, skiing and watching the same dumb TV shows. Thirteen-year-olds need to feel that they can touch their own childhood frequently and be nourished by traditions they know well...
...that, it would just become so unappetizing. (The author's) point was that you slice it as small as it's going to take to make you do it. So when I started, I only allowed myself to write 15 minutes a day. It sounds so dumb and simple, that was it. Now my rule is to write for two hours on Saturday and Sunday. I never tell myself I'm going to do it more than that...
...embarked on a search for “Guernica,” which led me to the nearby Reina Sofia Museum. Merely 5 feet 4 inches tall, I gazed up at almost 12 feet of canvas. The painting left me dumb-struck as it brilliantly resonated with a passion, power, and emotion as if it were a living thing. The colossal mural commemorates the brutal aerial bombardment of the ancient Basque town Guernica by German and Italian squadrons during the Spanish Civil War. As a modern historical painting, it draws on archetypal images such as bulls, horses, and melancholy women?...
...goes, 'America, they dumb. They bomb wrong palace.'" CORPORAL JONATHAN REESE, Pennsylvania National Guardsman assigned to watch over Saddam Hussein, quoting the deposed Iraqi leader's comments on the U.S. invasion of Iraq...
...difficulty is that other people think he is special. As a writer, Bascombe is supposed to be smart and sensitive. But mostly he feels dumb and dreamy, "a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless and complicated factuality." Not a good state for a sportswriter. But as a fictional character dealing with loss and solitude, Bascombe accounts for many affecting moments. His attempt to interview a former football player confined to a wheelchair is every journalist's nightmare: a hostile subject who undermines the project. The breakup with Nurse Vicki reveals that chilling instant when involved...