Word: lulled
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There should be a relaxation-filled lull between your work and your sleep. Even if it is just five minutes—make sure you take it. Get your mind off of your work before you drift off into dream land. Call a friend, make a cup of tea, do downward dog motions, or perform a belly dance for your roommates. It will most certainly pay off the next day. I promise...
...past few weeks I traveled campus noticing the lull, the quiet almost-ignorance that accompanied one of the worst spells of Harvard football in recent memory, two straight losses—one badly, one to an Ivy doormat—before the recent righting of the ship. Where was the dismay, the outrage, but mostly the surprise? Besides the usual complaints over lack of student fan participation, it struck me as the symptom of either a disappointing lack of context, the assumption among many students that at such an elite academic institution, the team should be bad, blind...
...some-magic-brownies-” or “hit-the-bottle-a-bit-too-much-” kind of way. No, I prefer my anthropomorphism tangible and intentional. From the maniacal Tickle-Me-Elmo to the evil little Furby, I like the lull of a disembodied, semi-robotic voice...
...letter, Harper’s adieu to the Harvard Corporation, awoke the University from summer’s lull and added an intriguing postscript to the drama of last semester. “I guess you can say it arrived,” he said in an interview this week...
Most of the athletes dragged our way for questioning fled the scene at the first lull in the conversation. One notable and charming exception was the four members of the U.S. Olympic softball team in attendance, who sat down, formal gowns and all, in the press dining room and dined on Caesar salad while trying to explain their efforts to get the sport reinstated to the Games...