| 单词 | dullness |
| 例句 | “Same boat,” repeated Citra with deadpan dullness but daggers in her eyes as sharp as the ones that used to hang in Faraday’s weapons den. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A classroom joke was always appreciated, anything to fracture the dullness of routine. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Odile did not mind this predilection, seeing that it went along with, and probably helped, his emancipation from the dullness of his Northampton upbringing. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He looked at me and smiled a little before his face resumed its dullness. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He did not truly feel good because the pain from the cord across his back had almost passed pain and gone into a dullness that he mistrusted. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mars revealed by the Viking mission is of enormous interest—particularly when we remember that the landing sites were chosen for their dullness. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She would even welcome kimril soup in all its comforting dullness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He was a young man, a Mr. Stone by name, with what Dr. Finch called the greatest talent for dullness he had ever seen in a man on the near side of fifty. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The audience in the Capitol will be getting bored, claiming that these Games are verging on dullness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Some two or three days later I noticed a change in Kuti: his eyes lost their dullness and the whimpering that had been so harrowing to listen to lessened and stopped. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In future days, the number of recruits trying to remain conscious against the back wall would be an accurate indicator of the deadly dullness of a given lecture. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s that. She’s all mixed up with the dullness, and I can’t remember much except the last picture drawn in fire.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He would lose himself in thoughts of her, and plan his next letter, refining the phrases, trying to find comedy in the dullness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But Matt still fought against the dullness that threatened to overwhelm him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The dullness of military life, the endless repetition of duties, the standing in line to eat, to use the bathroom, to shave, served as no distraction at all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Even in my dullness I knew I was inferior. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z There was no life in her anymore beyond that of an animal; you could see it in the dullness of her eyes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z For this was no place one came to by chance; even in the dullness of his thoughts he began to see that. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Where I am lain, there is no light to read by, so I must add dullness of mind and fatigue of spirits to discomfort of body. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Feature films in the English language seem to obsess more and more on only one thing at a time – they concentrate on their given subject with a kind of furious, exhausting dullness. Mad Men: the future of American film is on television 2010-09-08T08:01:00Z The conference format has evolved through the years, as Mr. Ward has aimed for the right blend of actual dullness and enigmatic intrigue. At ‘Boring’ Event: Lamppost History and Puzzle-Assembling 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Yet, for all of Counting Crows’s strategic dullness, it’s capable of actual elegance, as on “Possibility Days,” a slow walk of a song on which Mr. Duritz’s wimpy whine sounds like real hurt. Maroon 5 and Counting Crows Offer New Albums 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z By taking account of a few simple precepts, you can become a "wino" – a charmed, bon mot-slinging sophisticate with entrée into society's most exclusive clubs and factions, for whom dullness is the only impossibility. We Are Scientists present ? the rules of wine 2010-06-16T12:30:00Z There will almost certainly be an audience for this – the behind-the-scenes treatment of the open-kitchen conversations and delusions the federal complaint captured to spectacular effect – which makes the movie’s dullness all the more baffling. Why is the college admissions scandal movie so boring? 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Desperate to escape the dullness of provincial life, a young married woman in 19th century France pursues a series of indiscreet affairs. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z But it is testament to the sheer, plodding dullness of Ms. Cheng’s two pieces that the idea of meaning didn’t cross my mind during the hourlong program. Dance Review: Movements in the Cunningham Mode 2011-04-29T21:20:53Z Our natural dullness, exacerbated by that grinding daily need to survive. Grace Paley, the Saint of Seeing 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z After eating the eighth wing — coated in Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity, the third-hottest sauce — DJ Snake morphed from dullness to misery. ‘Hot Ones’ and Other Shows Parade the Rich, Famous and Oh So Vulnerable 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Forster’s adorable Lucy Honeychurch witnessed a stabbing moments after complaining about the dullness of life in “A Room With a View.” Galleries to gelato: An update on the best of Florence 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Writers, says Stevenson, leave "all the dullness out". Robert Louis Stevenson on writing: lose the 'twaddling detail' 2013-03-20T07:00:11Z He twitted Dwight D. Eisenhower for his dullness. Mort Sahl, Whose Biting Commentary Redefined Stand-Up, Dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The plodding predictability of this message gives Brave a dullness at odds with its luscious appearance. Brave by name, bland by nature 2012-08-20T10:03:02Z Of course there's plentiful humour at his expense, but there's also a limit to how many times we can find a dullard's dullness amusing. The Whispering Muse by Sjón – review 2012-06-22T21:55:06Z In this case, the dullness probably isn’t glue residue; it’s more likely to be shallow scratches caused by the earlier cleaning attempts. How to remove rust stains from metal chairs 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Nobody ever accused the Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, who died Aug. 24 at 80, of dullness. The Uniform Cool of Charlie Watts 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z And what there is comes with a new, lenient sentimentality and dullness. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - review 2010-10-07T12:00:00Z I know I did, since her writing suggested a casual daily sensuality I hoped might be the antidote to the atonal dullness of the prim Connecticut suburb where I lived. Colette’s Burgundy 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z We watched movies in dullness, learning to alternate between my mother’s desire for old films about war and immigration, and my desire for reality dating shows that she found disgusting. My Unlikely Pandemic Dream Partner 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z And yet the dullness of this raw material only makes the energy of Lil Wayne’s prose, and the force of his personality on the page, all the more remarkable. The Screwball Poetry of Lil Wayne’s Prison Diary 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Chesterton: “Dullness in government is a good sign, and not a bad one. . . . In particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.” Review | In these fractious times, a yearning for Walter Bagehot’s ‘age of discussion’ 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z A doting presence for most of the Actress’s career, she is happy to discover that the dullness of her charge’s married life is about to be enhanced by a potential new dalliance. | 'The Guardsman': In the Berkshires, Revisiting Molnar?s ?Guardsman? 2010-07-19T21:49:00Z The amount these speeches have added to the sum of human dullness is incalculable. In Margaret Atwood’s Essays and Speeches, Some Hazards of the Trade 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z The cast’s four women, despite their fervent, individual attempts at posturing, share a similar dullness. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham?s ?Live! The Realest MC? at the Kitchen - Review 2011-12-12T23:34:52Z Benjamin Black makes pointed asides about the dullness of Agatha Christie, and about the patness of mystery stories that resolve their loose ends too tidily. Books Of the Times: ‘Vengeance,’ a New Novel by Benjamin Black 2012-08-13T21:47:45Z Of all the criticisms one might level at the films of Xavier Dolan, dullness is unlikely to be among them. ‘The Death & Life of John F. Donovan’ Review: A Child Is Torn 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s a relief to say that so far this season, this kind of dullness has been infrequent. Dance Review: Music as a Gallant Ballet Partner 2011-02-03T22:30:10Z This solemn, straightforward music needs flawless textures to avoid dullness, and the many excellent qualities of A Far Cry do not include that smooth tonal sheen. Music Review: A Far Cry, in the Schneider Concerts at Tishman Auditorium 2013-01-17T22:50:08Z "The Losers" - Deadly only in its dullness, this coma-inducing, comic-book-adapted action flick aims to serve as a placeholder until "Iron Man 2" arrives with the summer's heavy artillery. Capsule reviews: `The Back-up Plan' and others 2010-04-23T00:31:00Z You see the world expand through the eyes of two girls — days of dullness, punctuated by men beating each other in the street and women raging out windows. Review: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Is an Intimate Epic 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z The dance vocabulary is pedestrian, not in the sense of dullness, but of biped walking. Dance Review: Deborah Hay Dance Company at St. Mark’s Church 2012-12-01T00:48:25Z But the dullness of the book’s players is more damaging. Books of The Times: ?Unreal Estate,? by Michael Gross - Review 2011-11-30T22:40:44Z Watched again now, Phantom Menace seems flat rather than actually objectionable: there is something almost exotic in its intricate dullness, and characters like Jar-Jar are now too boring to be offensive. Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D ? review 2012-02-09T21:45:00Z Is it possible that the most exciting move is to embrace dullness? Joe Pera and the Surprising Pleasures of Gentle Humor 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z “The greater attractiveness of those I saw in the former group and the often disappointing dullness of those I saw in the latter made me feel that way.” Marcia Brown, 96, Dies; Book Illustrator Won Three Caldecott Medals 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Endless discussions of dinner menus and Liberty patterns and the complexities of social etiquette might provide a convincing exposition of the dullness of being an Edwardian aristocrat but they do little to enliven the narrative. Habits of the House by Fay Weldon – review 2012-08-03T21:55:02Z I am afraid it was a dig at Ambridge's legendary dullness. Radio review: A month in Ambridge 2013-06-25T17:26:41Z The traditional royal virtues – dullness, stability – have their appeal, despite everything. Queen Olivia Colman, an epic budget and a cast of thousands: a year behind the scenes on The Crown 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Many writers’ books go slack when their characters open their mouths, as if dullness equals verisimilitude. Jennifer Egan Updates the Old-Fashioned Page-Turner in ‘Manhattan Beach’ 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z She was quite incapable, in her life and in her work, of adding to the sum of human dullness. Review: Arthur Lubow’s Diane Arbus Biography Recalls an Underworld Voyager 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Relevance, though, often covers a multitude of aesthetic faults — the soporific dullness of being earnest, relentless sentimentality or even a covert didacticism, typically stressing the myriad derelictions to which human beings are all prey. Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z What saved the show from position-paper dullness was its committment to portraying the Henricksons as people, and treating their plural marriage as a simple fact that is as impervious to public scorn as the weather. "Big Love's" riveting final stretch 2011-03-07T17:15:00Z What he did talk about, during a surprisingly old-fashioned opening monologue, was Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations, the Greek financial crisis and the dullness of soccer — standard topics for the kind of comic-commentary show “Why?” Review: Hannibal Buress Debuts His New Comedy Central Show 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z The film grew out of a series of articles he had written based around interviews with priests, politicians, sportsmen and artists, and challenging what he saw as the Irish republic's reactionary complacency and dullness. Farewell to Peter Lennon, whose only film was worth a dozen by a lesser man 2011-03-21T14:17:57Z Its translucent quality easily reveals dark circles, fine lines and dullness. How to Look Well Rested (Even When You’re Not) 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z A: Judging from the pictures you sent, you may be dealing with two issues: dullness and scratches. Putting the shine back in a stainless sink 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z It’s just dull, and in the context of the present pervasive dullness and unoriginality of a lot of painting in New York, it fits in all too well. Art in Review: BOB DYLAN: ?The Asia Series? 2011-10-13T22:00:35Z Elsewhere, the comedy of two elderly women's conversation about soap dispensers is captured by Lucy making a tick-tock sound between each line of dialogue – to denote the precious time being wasted by all this dullness. Judith Lucy – review 2012-11-27T17:40:38Z His background is the zenith of dependable dullness, he tells us – convincingly, because he does seem a well-adjusted, unexciting bloke. Stuart Goldsmith 2010-08-22T15:49:00Z It made him confident; it made him sociable; it took “the eternal dullness of my days,” he writes, and filled them with color. This Time, He Stars In His Own Story 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z As this episode reminds us, while the two countries have become proverbial for a certain affable dullness, it was not always thus. TV highlights 11/04/2013 2013-04-11T06:00:08Z Viewed cynically, that’s partly a function of volume — there are simply far more men in the field, with far more opportunity for dullness. Kacey Musgraves and Other ‘Tomatoes’ Give Country Its Bite 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z There’s a kind of expensive, well-appointed, historically correct dullness going on here — a display of authenticity without much fight. Black Sabbath’s New Album, ‘13’ 2013-06-07T16:18:21Z Whereas Mr Piketty offered long ruminations on Honoré de Balzac, Sir Anthony’s is a crunchy book that analyses policy discussions in detail but avoids dullness, thanks to its unapologetic support for aggressive government intervention. Mind the gap 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The perennial jeopardy of Brahms without an overarching stance is dullness and stodge — there was no sign of that here. Review: Brahms at the Boston Smphony, With Hélène Grimaud 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z It works on clogged pores and dullness, and brings back radiance and freshness.” Skin Deep: Oxygen Bubbles Into Facial Care Products - Skin Deep 2013-01-09T13:06:32Z The title may be mildly provocative in its vulgarity, but the most striking feature of this movie is its dullness. | 'Douchebag': Two Brothers on the Road, and One?s Bad Company 2010-09-30T23:04:00Z These days, when insults and shaming, rabid factionalism and self-puffery characterize our civic life, it’s hard not to wish for a return to dullness and “the age of discussion.” Review | In these fractious times, a yearning for Walter Bagehot’s ‘age of discussion’ 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z The Omnivore calls the new prize “a crusade against dullness, deference and lazy thinking.” ArtsBeat: A New Honor for the Hatchet Job 2012-01-30T20:18:52Z Boredom is often defined as a state of dissatisfaction with the dullness of a situation – usually with a bit of restlessness and fatigue. Is it good to be bored (or will it be the death of you)? 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z A crunchy book that analyses policy discussions in detail but avoids dullness, thanks to its unapologetic support for robust government intervention. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Nothing in the second half quite measured up to these two pieces, except Lukas Foss’s enthusiastic “Capriccio,” pleasingly bracing after the repetitive dullness of Leonard Bernstein’s “Three Meditations From ‘Mass.’ For cellist Alban Gerhardt, a strong start but a weak second half 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z She described their life together as moments of "suffocating dullness interspersed by violent and near suicidal flashes of excitement." Masahisa Fukase's Ravens: the best photobook of the past 25 years? 2010-05-24T12:14:00Z The only effrontery left was the effrontery of dullness. Dance Review: Ann Liv Young as Sleeping Beauty at Abrons Arts Center - Review 2012-01-13T23:31:08Z I'm sorry, you may say, thinking of the well-censored dullness of official Soviet thought – the what? Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z Snoring is as much an indictment of the dullness of a great deal of British theatre as heckling. Should there be more heckling in the theatre? 2012-11-06T13:11:21Z Like other Japanese cities, Naha has a gray, 1970s-modern dullness and density, though with a lighter accretion of "Blade Runner"-neon than Tokyo. T Magazine: Island Records 2012-11-16T18:00:23Z They could also send up the dullness of much contemporary architecture. Fantastical Cityscapes of Cardboard and Glue at MoMA 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Like a seasoned tour guide, Tinniswood keeps us moving through chambers of wonders, from the Elizabethan to the modern era, on a journey into dullness. Review | Future kings don’t squeeze their own toothpaste: Tales of the pampered British royal family 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z For how can one scale the heights of exhilaration without at least catching sight of the deserts of dullness. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z Rushdie fears that writers no longer trust their imaginations, and that the classroom imperative to “write what you know” has led to dullness, angst and dead ends: cold and bony literary mumblecore. In ‘Languages of Truth,’ Salman Rushdie Defends the Extraordinary 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z It’s a vibrant, vital music that from its very roots has always been a burst of color and excitement against a background of dullness, hardship or frustration. Mick Farren, British Rock ’n’ Roll Renaissance Man, Dies at 69 2013-08-01T03:34:55Z As Samson, tenor Derek Taylor did not have the same ease on stage, wooden in his acting and his voice covered into dullness at the top. Review | Can’t even sex sell opera? 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Is there fascination, power — virtue, even — in dullness? Review: ‘The Crown’ and the Burdens of a No-Drama Queen 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Where the Bay “Transformers” movies alternated between ecstasy and dullness, “Bumblebee” is consistently middling. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z But its alleged dullness — its normalcy — was a kind of achievement. Critic’s Notebook: Looking at Gay Movies Before Stonewall 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Yet her studied expression was just one element of the show, of which she was the unequivocal star and which felt rehearsed to the point of dullness. Review: Irene Rodríguez Compañía Offers Flamenco With Flirtation 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z "What… the dullness, the not speaking French, the drinking too much or too little, the being all over me… it's all like reading a book you've read before." Rewind TV: Parade's End; The Last Weekend; Funny Fortnight; The Queen's Mother-in-Law – review 2012-08-25T23:05:59Z They enliven the movie’s atmosphere of weary brutality for a few moments, but they also call attention to the dullness of their dramatic surroundings. Movie Review: Tom Cruise in ‘Jack Reacher’ 2012-12-20T13:00:00Z Around Washington, it has become synonymous with that architectural sin of sins: utter dullness. 10 buildings you must see around the new boom-time Washington 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The film is an ode to the punk-rock scene of the 1990s Midwest, a space where Simon and Patty both find relief from the dullness of the world around them. ‘Dinner in America’ Review: A Punk-Rock Love Story 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z How unfortunate that, in presenting the award for director, Ben Affleck chose to quote Frank Capra's observation that "the cardinal sin is dullness." Academy Awards telecast is all too predictable 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z They symbolize the threat of uniformity, dullness and predictability, the clean and responsible approach to life, and to movies, that “The World’s End” protests with every atom of its being. Movie Review: ‘World’s End’ Continues ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’ 2013-08-22T21:06:38Z Alcoholism probably contributed to his sense of emotional dullness and spiritual ennui. Review | The De Young Museum tries, and fails, to trace Paul Gauguin’s ‘spiritual journey’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Waclawiak accomplishes a brilliant feat here, creating an atmosphere of almost palpable, effortful dullness that presides over the entire novel. You Can’t Avoid Death, but You Can Make It Easier 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z But it shouldn’t rope Fresh, a show that’s trying to tell a story about the messiness of multiculturalism, into responsible dullness. Review: Fresh Off the Boat Has the Makings of an American Original 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z There are some marvellous moments and passages of excruciating dullness. New world disorder at Artes Mundi 2010-03-22T22:30:00Z “Using too little detergent not only means that your stains won’t be removed, but it also allows body soils to build up on your fabrics, resulting in odors, dinginess, and dullness.” This is why your workout clothes still stink after being washed 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z But over the course of the episode, the dullness becomes endemic, almost tragic. Television Review: Following Lindsay Lohan After Her Latest Rehab 2014-03-10T21:29:04Z Could the dullness of so many of Bronzino’s large-size pictures or murals reflect a lack of real interest in painting as such, executed for financial reasons without great conviction? Review: A Florentine Artist's Two Aesthetic Lives 2010-02-19T13:15:00Z Price gouging isn't just caused by inflation or supply shortages; rather, it's a combination of economic blight brought on by the pandemic and our disdain for the dullness of local politics. Coffee and community improvement districts: Unpacking the mystery of the $7 Starbucks macchiato 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z In fact, “the essence of civilization . . . is dullness.” Review | In these fractious times, a yearning for Walter Bagehot’s ‘age of discussion’ 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z But Parmet’s less interested in cultish dread than a more naturalistic dullness of isolation and groupthink you’d find in any closed conservative society where women of faith have been sold a purity narrative. Review: 'The Starling Girl' explores female desire and self-expression in a tightknit church 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z “It shows that, even among a group of very similar-looking species, you can find beauty among the dullness.” New Butterflies Are Named for Sauron, ‘Lord of the Rings’ Villain 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z He finds Pádraic dull and, in his advancing years, he figures he has no more time for dullness. Martin McDonagh loves his stars: 'I don't want anyone else to get their hands on them' 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Discovering that “stuffiness is not dullness,” Mr. Kimbrough played Dial as a pretentious newsman with heart and sensitivity as well as a charmingly incisive sense of right and wrong. Charles Kimbrough, ‘Murphy Brown’ actor with prim persona, dies at 86 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z My instinct said to leave after the appetizer — I was raised in communist Bulgaria by atheists who taught me to associate religion with dullness of mind. L.A. Affairs: After a steamy night, he left me to go to church. What's an atheist to do? 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z “There was just a weird dullness on defense.” Despite Caitlin Clark’s 45 points, NC State tops No. 10 Iowa 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z He dreads the day he stars in a project he isn’t necessarily proud of, and whose dullness prompts inane questions from people interviewing him. Paul Mescal on ‘Aftersun,’ disaster movies and that ‘Normal People’ ending 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z But his approach to his books was shaped in part by his Jesuit background, by the depth of his learning and the dullness of how he learned it. Thomas Cahill, popular history writer, dead at 82 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Uline's core business — selling boxes — is so boring there's an entire Simpsons bit devoted to its dullness. That cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z But he also decried the architectural dullness of other new housing developments sprouting up throughout the area and praised the Enclave’s designers for taking a chance. Berkeley's 'Moorish-Tudor fever dream' of an apartment complex sells for over $100 million 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z It doesn't matter what it is — beauty or bliss or sadness or tragedy or dullness or despair or horror or ecstasy or the ordinary — it's the writer's job. Bombed out: Why we keep on making war, and tolerating it 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z The vast majority of athletes tested negative at the airport, then quickly felt their stress replaced by dullness. The closed loop eliminated covid, and joy, from the Olympics 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z “I feel emotionally wary right now, definitely a sense of dullness, and you can’t have that racing, especially not racing speed.” Mikaela Shiffrin finishes her first race of these Olympics, the super-G. 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z “And I feel emotionally wary right now. And there’s definitely a sense of dullness, and you cant have that … But when we got out today, I just felt a little more settled, a little quieter.” Mikaela Shiffrin finishes off the pace — but finishes — in super-G 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z I watched transfixed as the electrical alchemy of heat turned dullness into golden, the gentle tick of minutes sounding the bright ting of the alarm. L.A. Affairs: Here's a toast to a new year and a new chance at love 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z When Frannie’s class complains about the dullness of Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse,” she asks, “How many ladies have to die to make it good?” Analysis | Jane Campion’s masterful ‘Power of the Dog’ had a fascinating and much maligned precursor 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z It's treating ignorance like a virtue, and intellectual dullness like a mandate. Nothing sends the willfully ignorant into a whiny tailspin like being reminded that others learn 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Rist also takes on the corporate dullness and bland commercial manipulation of most digital imagery, chiefly by putting privacy and intimacy on a public pedestal inside a museum. Review: Forget about 'immersive' Van Gogh. Pipilotti Rist's MOCA show is the real thing 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Now it has a September so stocked with hope that it overrides the latest wave of business dullness: the Oklahoma-and-Texas abandonment to the SEC from the Big 12, in which Iowa State competes. Iowa State, amid all the talk about love in football, becomes a love epicenter 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z In less acute cases, clinical signs may include dullness, loss of appetite, nasal hemorrhage and congestion. Wildlife officials warn about buying bunnies as Easter gifts 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z There was a stigma, and maybe a whiff of icebox dullness, that attached to foods stashed in Tupperware or sandwich bags. How Pandemic Lunches Gave Me Hope for the Planet 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Someday soon, let’s hope, we can rediscover the dullness of things like governmental parades for ourselves. The Inauguration Kept Crowds Out and Tried to Bring America In 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z This, according to some skin care experts, is one reason for skin dullness. How to combat the dull skin of the pandemic 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z The willingness and ability to tolerate dullness and sameness was eroding. Americans’ inability to cope with boredom is spurring the spread of coronavirus 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z A great threat can infuse excitement into bourgeois dullness and justify a flight into exciting collective undertakings. Opinion | Crises and the collectivist temptation 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z It’s a purposely discordant combination of worldly and otherworldly that’s meant, Ma said, to jar us from our society’s dullness and practicality, and to trigger visceral emotion, the awe we find in nature. Ma Yansong takes L.A.: How the quiet force behind George Lucas' museum makes his mark 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Others will say it has regressed into relative dullness. The Super Bowl is always a little weirder in Miami 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The shaver tracks everything from hair density, shaving speed, the number of strokes, time spent shaving, and blade dullness to environmental factors like temperature and humidity. Smart tech is coming for your last safe space: the bathroom 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Nothing to Be Frightened Of describes “the decent dullness” of his postwar upbringing; his parents, both French teachers, moved from Leicester to Northwood, north-west London, the “Metroland” of his debut, shortly after he was born. Julian Barnes: ‘Do you expect Europe to cut us a good deal? It’s so childish’ 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Castro’s choices reflect the studious dullness of someone who learns about new records from supermarket speakers. What Does Campaign Rally Music Say About a Candidate? 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z This in a city that, for decades, Johnny Carson ridiculed on “The Tonight Show” as the definition of provincial dullness. Bakersfield, once the butt of jokes, is booming. So are many other inland California cities. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z Much of that spirit, however, stems from a time in Becker’s life consumed by dullness — namely, a rare medical condition that intermittently impairs his ability to hear, smell and taste. Goon's singer turns his strange medical journey into art on debut album 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z He had been either invisible or deliberately sober to the point of dullness, when his usual primary draw to Tory members is a self-created sense of optimism and fun. Brexit: Johnson says Britain will leave EU on 31 October 'do or die' 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z For them, the disappointment of their hometown is still new, and defined more by dullness than pain. Ma should be more daring about its vague racial themes 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z One response to trauma is to be overwhelmed to the point of dullness. Can London’s Knife-Crime Crisis Be Stopped? 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Writing also helped her see why her parents, who had seen London bombed, would prefer exurban dullness; she learned, in her 50s, to see through their eyes. Former Everything but the Girl singer Tracey Thorn finds creative inspiration in ordinary suburbs 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Partly because he didn’t give me time, and partly because, deep down, I wanted something to happen to save me from the deathly dullness of that summer. “The Confession” 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Enemies of climate action warn of totalitarian dullness, while the fossil industry commits crimes against humanity to maintain the privileges of a few. A Green New Deal can give us the freedoms to allow humanity to flourish 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Efforts to blunt Maroon 5’s dullness, and its political aversion, were being made for weeks before the formal announcement that it would be the headliner. Maroon 5 Barely Leaves a Mark at Super Bowl Halftime Show 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The seeming dullness of the gerrymandering issue was no deterrence. Billionaires join fight over Michigan's 'rigged' voting map 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z It underscores the dullness of purely formal competence. Nicki Minaj’s Dark Bargain with Her Fans 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Their task was intimidating: to illuminate a subject who spent decades plying his considerable intelligence into relentless opacity and manufactured dullness. Review | The golf mastery and human foibles of Tiger Woods 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Had this team not squeezed through its conference tournament, it would not have received even an invitation from a selection committee that seems intent on infusing the land with a gathering dullness. Perspective | Farewell, mid-major. March Madness misses you. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z “A little bit of dullness might not be a bad thing in the mind of voters right now, given the chaos that unfolds on a daily basis in Washington.” A look at 3 GOP governors thriving in Democratic states 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z “It all sounds dull, but she likes that — dullness is her middle name,” Mr. Kornelius said. Merkel, Reluctant Leader of the West, ‘Has Gotten the Taste for It’ 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z "You're feeling your body. Each year you try to get back and there's a dullness. You've got to fight for it to get that sharpness back." Gatlin feeling like the Justin who won world titles 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z I have found it particularly effective on visible pores around the nose and chin, on uneven texture and in brightening dullness, but others report all manner of skin-improving capabilities. Sali Hughes: the 50 best ethical beauty buys 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Because of several stories of mine, I’d suffered a few cyber-attacks recently, and, though a paragon of dullness, I decided to greet the future by making it harder to find me. Will social media kill the novel? Andrew O'Hagan on the end of private life 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z With Amy’s ex back in the picture in the return episode, the idea of dullness comes up. 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' returns, will Gina be in the precinct house? Andy Samberg speaks 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Each story differs but slightly and as a corpus they are dull – and that dullness, the flat sameness of horror retold, is perhaps one of Bush’s points. George W Bush's talent as a painter finds an ironic muse: the combat veteran 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z "You're feeling your body. Each year you try to get back and there's a dullness. You've got to fight for it to get that sharpness back." Gatlin feeling like the Justin who won world titles 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z His inaugural speech to parliament on December 13th was memorable largely for its dullness. Paolo Gentiloni, Italy’s gentleman prime minister 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The dullness of a death in life, frozen through aeons in a test tube! Margaret Drabble: ‘I am not afraid of death. I worry about living’ 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z But one tech person said this whole Rule 41 thing is coming forward under “cover of dullness.” Ron Wyden Discusses Encryption, Data Privacy and Security 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z Her speech was, as usual, boring, but its dullness muted the radicalism of her proposal—to defund asylum shelters and put the money into teachers’ salaries. The New Star of Germany’s Far Right 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Serums, as defined by the beauty industry, are concentrated skincare products designed to target a specific skin issue, be that ageing, acne or dullness. Are skin serums miracle workers or the purest distillation of beauty industry BS? 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z “It’s not pain, just a dullness, and you can’t finish pitches. “It’s a very strange thing. Bailey gives up 6 runs, 9 hits in Dodgers’ 18-9 rout of Reds 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Despite the dullness of Tuesday’s game, I enjoyed my time in San Diego. Dodgers mailbag: Who leaves the rotation when Clayton Kershaw comes back? 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z In terms of profound dullness, I thought nothing would surpass the relatively new feed of Iceland’s last McDonald’s hamburger. What's better than a webcam dedicated to the world’s longest burning lightbulb? Its website 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z He thinks that personhood is a form of self-imposed dullness and yearns for the vivid openness of animality. The Man Who Became a Goat 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Alas, much like the second film, “Insurgent,” this installment disappoints with its graceless narrative, intensified violence and occasional dullness. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Alas, much like the second film, “Insurgent,” this installment is disappointing in its gracelessness, intensified violence and occasional flat-out dullness. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘The Divergent Series: Allegiant’ and more 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Amblyopia, a term that means "dullness of vision," affects roughly 3 percent of children, Neely said. High-Tech Glasses Instead of Eye Patch for 'Lazy Eye'? 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z It lacks open spaces, especially irregularly shaped ones, which relieve dullness and provide informal places of public gathering. The History Behind Manhattan's Street Grid 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z But such moments were otherwise washed away in the steady flow of dullness. Nets Fall to Bulls in Season Opener 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The presidential debates of yesteryear were stolid affairs—often to the point of dullness. 10 Memorable Moments in Presidential Debate History 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z I think what happened to the old landscapes was that because of the dullness of the reproduction and the copying, they then did something that worked against what we wanted. 25 years after ‘The Civil War,’ Ken Burns finally made his dream movie 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z As for Cavill, let us just say that the line between phlegmatic suavity and downright dullness is rather more easily breached than the Berlin Wall. Cold-War Bromance 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z He is modest in demeanor, flat almost to the point of dullness. The Kansas Experiment 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Even the sharks, falling from the sky to dispatch or be dispatched with a pounding, gory dullness, seem somehow beside the point. 'Sharknado 3' tosses all standards overboard and sinks anyway 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The name conjures an image of such stately dullness that it would drive an adman to despair: the Seventh Round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. Can the U.S. and China Avoid the Enemy Trap? 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z I consider staying there, eyes stinging, rather than face the dullness of the day ahead. Visual whispers: From image to sketch via text 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In doing so, he adds luster to a substance considered synonymous with dullness. Book Review: Rust 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z “The transition from a state where I had no sense of time or space to the relative dullness of now, happened quickly. I had a headache.” The Trip Treatment 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z There’s pressure on the Cambridges to be interesting people now that the media’s glare is firmly fixed on them, but becoming reigning monarchs will force them both to retreat into dullness. The British Royals Are Here, but Do Americans Care? I own and drive Toyotas, but they and the others you list are at or near the top of the dullness scale. Her Flock of Fiats: A Little Italy in the Backyard 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z It belched and gurgled for two nights, giving off an exhaust of dullness and dominance. 2014 World Series: Perez, Infante help Royals bounce back in Game 2 vs. Giants But it's actually kind of wonderful to jump around the ad and watch its incredible dullness for a while. Virgin America made a nearly six-hour-long commercial about being bored on an airplane 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z That compensates for the dullness of our team. Zico: World Cup was adapt or die and Germany had answer for everything 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The New Republic criticized its "dullness and lack of critical energy". Hillary Clinton's book is exactly as 'safe' as female politicians are forced to be 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Recovering addicts report a kind of emotional dullness that can linger for months, even years, a result of compensatory changes in the brain that only slowly reverse. Addict. Informant. Mother. 2014-05-09T14:45:22Z Soy sausages were invented by Konrad Adenauer, the first German chancellor after World War Two, and a byword for steady probity - dullness would be an unkind word. 10 inventions that owe their success to World War One 2014-04-13T22:51:06Z But it was more likely the dullness of the football action that accounted for the 3 per cent boost in audience. Seahawks-Broncos Super Bowl TV Ratings Top 111 Million 2014-02-04T02:29:39Z But it was more likely the dullness of the football action that accounted for the 3 percent audience gain. Dull Super Bowl Made ‘Downton Abbey’ a Thrill, as Nearly 7 Million Watched 2014-02-03T21:14:33Z Too high a blood-sugar level damages these protein components, which leads to signs of aging such as wrinkles, dullness and sagging. 15 Sneaky Sources of Sugar 2014-01-13T14:38:00Z The dullness coefficient figure – 0.98 – is actually the highest in its class. On the road: Mitsubishi Mirage 3 1.2 2013-06-29T08:00:04Z Youkilis said he woke up with a tingling, numb feeling, or “dullness,” in his right foot. Bats: Yankees May Need Rodriguez After All 2013-06-15T02:21:26Z A relish of charred onions and pomegranate molasses might have lifted two little fried sweetbreads out of dullness if there had been more than a small blotch of it. Restaurant Review: Salvation Taco in Murray Hill and Taqueria Tlaxcalli in the Bronx 2013-05-28T21:14:44Z All standard president’s letter dullness so far, right? Emory president holds up “three-fifths” compromise as noble, honorable 2013-02-16T20:31:00Z All this deliberate dullness has two functions: to calm the audience and to be as inconspicuous as possible, thus lowering listeners' guard and making them more susceptible to advertising at large. The malls are alive with the sound of Muzak 2013-02-13T12:30:01Z San Francisco 49ers The Niners are not razor sharp heading into the postseason, but they play a brand of football that allows them to easily shake off whatever dullness might be forming. The Fifth Down: N.F.L. Playoff Analysis From the Film Room 2013-01-02T13:25:19Z Accuracy does not equal dullness and eloquence does not equal hype. Junk DNA, Junky PR 2012-09-17T23:45:02.920Z Correction: Germany has decided that Italy and Greece should abandon the charismatic model which might seem to suggest that there is a correlation between dullness and fiscal rectitude. Antony Jenkins' appointment as Barclays chief is a sign of the dull times 2012-08-30T13:31:37Z There was no longer any need for dullness. Free Markets Versus Intervention: Time to Move On? 2012-08-20T15:32:41Z This is another of the splendid little Parakeets inhabiting the forests of New Holland; and vivid as the colouring may appear in our figure, it sinks into dullness when compared with the bird itself. Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-19T02:00:27.027Z She would not listen to her father explaining the phrase into dullness. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z What had been a company with a history of safety—even dullness—was turned upside down. Nearly Two Years On, Did the BP Oil Spill Have to Happen to BP? 2012-04-05T06:40:00Z I had learned to expect his ceremonious manner but was considerably tried by his apparent dullness and lack of interest or encouragement of practical ideas. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z "As a story, it is thoroughly readable; the action is rapid, but not hurried; there is no flagging, and no dullness." The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z There is an association in men's minds between dullness and wisdom, amusement and folly, which has a very powerful influence in decision upon character, and is not overcome without considerable difficulty. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z It certainly had subsided into its old dullness, while the days themselves were even more dreary-looking than the house. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z Then follows a paragraph from the sermon, dropsical with dullness; and here the article ends. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z —Well, well, boys! pardon an old man's diffuseness!—his twilight dullness! The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z The Quaker-meeting has contributed to our vocabulary a synonym for dullness. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z This insistence on the test of the enjoyment of the dullness of a dull book is not arbitrary. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z But dullness and insipidity at length gave way, and retreated rapidly to the trunk-makers and green grocers. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Notwithstanding my romantic plays I have spent a private life of utter dullness. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z It was not my first visit to Old York, but I found the place strangely altered from its usual quiet and dullness. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The dignified dullness, the solemn stupidity of these addresses has never been excelled. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z But after all there is a sense of pity about our kind attribution of hidden power to dullness. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z The line between peace and dullness—each man draws it for himself—in pencil—with india-rubber handy! Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z It has long roots that feed on the selfishness and dullness of Fifth Avenue quite as greedily as on the squalor of the Sixth Ward. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z A gust of resentful rage pierced the dullness of Wolf's brain and sent a thrill of fierce energy through him. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z The escapes from its dullness remained until the very end of the century only half-opened doors. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Many blame the dullness and general averageness which afflicts us upon democracy. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z We are inquiring not merely whether adenoids and tonsils are causes of sub normality or dullness, but also whether they tend to lower the intelligence quotient in general however high it may be. Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils Their Effect on General Intelligence 2012-01-28T03:00:25.603Z The street wore its normal aspect of mingled dullness and the kind of expectancy that is always waiting to turn any excitement, from a fallen horse to a fire, to instant account. A Ten Year War An Account of The Battle with The Slum in New York 2012-02-11T03:03:42.997Z There’s an awful lot of rain and dullness in Vancouver from October to April. Phoenix Housing Rises as Canada Buyers Seek 55% Desert Discount 2012-01-19T05:38:24Z I have often smiled, at my own dullness, in not sooner apprehending the solution of this little enigma. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z And with a sudden revolt against her own loneliness and dullness, the girl felt as though at any cost she must seek friendship, amusement, distraction. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z This is denied by some authors, who claim that the dullness of comprehension and inattention are only apparent, and due only to defective hearing. Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils Their Effect on General Intelligence 2012-01-28T03:00:25.603Z Over the city hung a dullness, a thin dirty canopy against the blue sky. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Mere vulgar actors cannot please; The streets supply enough of these; And what can wit or beauty gain When sleepy dullness joins their train? The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z The Dismal Gibcat, with exceeding dullness, replied that a man who had received his education at a public school and an ancient university ought to be able to distinguish between tilled land and thoroughfare. A Drake by George! 2012-01-09T03:00:22.163Z Cicely was not quite sure whether she most wished to laugh or cry, when this very ordinary little acquaintance, a walking mass of platitudes, propriety, and dullness, walked into the room. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z If we allow the preceding contention of coincidence between dullness and tonsils, must we not argue here in the same manner for a tendency toward coincidence of superiority and tonsils? Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils Their Effect on General Intelligence 2012-01-28T03:00:25.603Z Here and there their dullness is enlivened by a flash of Lola’s own native wit, or a shrewd observation that only her experience could have supplied. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z Do men with brutes an equal dullness share, Or cuts yon' grovelling mole the midway air? The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z The dullness was gone from her brain, the lassitude from her limbs. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z “The end-of-the-year factor, when traders, brokerages and other institutional participants close and clear their trading portfolios, is also contributing to the current dullness in the market.” Egypt Shares Rally Most in Month as Politicians Signal Unity 2011-12-25T14:14:23Z The author says that in 36 per cent of the cases, the cause for backwardness was found to be "inherent dullness." Adenoids and Diseased Tonsils Their Effect on General Intelligence 2012-01-28T03:00:25.603Z We may choke it with dullness, drive it off with scolding. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z Most constant visitor of all, Madame de Motteville brought her wit, her accomplishments, and her long experience of Court life to enliven the dullness of the cloister. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z The excitement of the journey and return home had worn off, and Ananda was conscious of an oppressive dullness. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z When the man whose childhood existence inspired Charlie Brown calls you boring, that’s the ultimate achievement in the field of dullness. Shermy in ?A Charlie Brown Christmas?: A tribute to an unsung holiday pop culture hero 2011-12-05T20:23:00Z The equal struggle of the forces, or if you prefer it, their ensemble, sufficiently explains the apparent dullness of the horse in this case. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z The very dullness and depression that make exercise imperative also make it impossible to sustain much of it. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z That fact, I assure you, in spite of my dullness, I have appreciated already. A Master of Deception 2011-11-30T03:00:12.357Z "At the end of a week the tutor, disgusted with Frederick's dullness, rudeness, and violence, left the house." The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z I suppose the dullness of certain society originally drove me to it. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Calhoun, in the speech referred to, reproached Forsyth, of Georgia, for dullness in not seeing how state rights and slavery were dovetailed together and how the latter depended on the former. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z We except to this charge of dullness the dramatic love scene where the tolerably broad business concludes the act. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z But dullness is the first requisite of a good husband. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z Thy friend the Herod hath just been here with pagan oaths upon his lips about thy dullness. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z It was a long, splendid festivity, compensating her for those years of dire dullness passed but a few miles away. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z In England one complains of the dullness of a wet summer. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z But their general character appears to be gravity, not to say dullness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z At the fourth right cartilage or the third interspace, the dullness is from one to two centimeters from the edge of the sternum. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z But daily the dullness on his brain shifts a little, so that the light of recollection penetrates to it, and he remembers forgotten animosities. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Her environment had lost every trace of its former dullness. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z "I should find dullness itself interesting with you as my fellow observer of it." A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z There was a general dullness, and a general restraint. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z There is usually an area of dullness at the upper left margin of the sternum and nearby parts, sensitive to pressure and to percussion, and the heart dullness extends unusually far towards the right. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z It took all your greed, all your vanity, all your stupid, cruel pomp and dullness to be fooled like that! "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Apparently complete apprehension had come as soon as he realised that his dullness was to be enlightened by the explanation of the quicker-witted Havildar. Cupid in Africa 2011-09-28T02:00:21.467Z Behind the mask of dullness and stolidity were shrewdness and quickness of wit, and he knew that the man before him 200 would not permit private inclinations to swerve him from his duty. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z The child forced into premature concern with economic remote results may develop a surprising sharpening of wits in a particular direction, but this precocious specialization is always paid for by later apathy and dullness. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z The so-called absolute cardiac dullness does not appear to me to be of any great significance. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z It dawned, presently; and all the unrest left my breast—all that heavy dullness which seemed like the flitting shadow of a pain. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z After my own experience of deathly dullness, I heartily sympathise with those who seek relief in alcohol and nicotine. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z He is patient of dullness as well as of eccentricity. Talks to Freshman Girls 2011-09-04T02:00:03.470Z Yet the teacher is not entitled to assume stupidity or even dullness merely because of irresponsiveness to school subjects or to a lesson as presented by text-book or teacher. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z First and foremost we wish by percussion to learn the actual size of the heart, in other words what is ordinarily called the relative cardiac dullness. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z "Do as you like, Polly, but, as for me, I do not desire to perish of dullness with only women to talk to, and only a swamp to gaze upon!" The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z But in spite of squires and church synods, the working-man did all he could to escape, in his own untutored fashion, from the dullness of his working days. Chaucer and His England 2011-09-01T02:00:19.940Z Why the dullness and feebleness in the celebration of that precious feast which ought to stir the very deepest depths of our renewed being? The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z They must have something "to drive off the dullness." Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z With the absolute dullness we are not concerned. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z All unconsciously the village was grateful to young Kaye for having provided them with something to talk about, something to laugh about, something, above all, to relieve the uneventful dullness of their lives. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z It was not utter dullness not to have anticipated the beauty that I saw. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z Are our souls cast down by the barrenness, dullness, heaviness, and low tone of all our reunions, whether at the table of our Lord, before the mercy-seat, or around the fountain of holy Scripture? The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z Yes, to drive off the dullness, thought I; to get rid of the horror of thinking. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z Some find it easier to percuss the dullness due to the heart in this way than by mediate percussion. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z It is a district without grace, without charm, with no interruption in its uniformity of dullness. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z I had not thought of this before, and I wondered at my dullness, for there was sense in my father's surmise, and I fancied there might be truth in it. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z There is no dullness or torpor in this city. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z The dullness of the chronicle was not always the dullness of the author, it seemed. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z It is frequently stated that the right limit of cardiac dullness is normally, in the adult, just at the right border of the sternum. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z You see, we'd both been dying of dullness, though neither of us liked to say it. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Heroes have to fight against armies, and plagues, and terrible calamities, and I have to face only dullness and disappointment. A Girl in Spring-Time 2011-07-29T02:00:31.493Z We had brought before us the dull and prim home life of old Pierrot and of his wife, and we were made to behold the impatience of young Pierrot with this prim dullness. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z I call it a heavy dullness, because I not only do not hear distinctly but feel in it a constant noise. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z Below, the cardiac dullness is merged into the tympany from the stomach and the dullness from the liver. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z You see, it was the dullness of the thing that made us miserable. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Such a playwright must, then, contend, except in specially fortunate circumstances, against possible dullness, indifference, and distortion. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Regarded as individuals, the birds are delightfully convincing: regarded as birds they are dismissed rather carelessly, though, since it is Chaucer who dismisses them, an occasional happy phrase redeems the passage from dullness and monotony. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z Nowadays when migrant workers finish work at factories across southern China's manufacturing belt, they slip into bleached jeans, bright T-shirts, and sequin-covered blouses that are a gaudy renunciation of rural dullness. Special Report:China migrant unrest exposes generation faultline 2011-06-29T03:14:51Z What I wish to insist upon is that the size of the area of absolute dullness can give us no data in regard to the size of the heart. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z The meal pursued its common course of dullness. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z It was a curious place to choose for amusement, for it had, and has, no recommendation except brackish water, pleasant scenery at high water, and excessive dullness. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z After that weary grind of inland towns and cities, differing one from another only in degrees of griminess, greyness, and dullness, New York seemed Paradise Regained to Joan. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Indeed, Mrs. Blodgett," you observed, "has not the day gone by for thinking dullness a sign of honesty? The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z This in my hands has been of great assistance in percussing the limits of the heart dullness. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z Gentleness was indeed his proper characteristic, without one particle of dullness, or insipidity, or want of spirit. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Then he proceeds to tell the kind of dullness and stagnation that existed. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z One of the greatest annoyances to the camoufleur is the lack of dullness or “flatness” of the paints, fabrics, and some of the other media used. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z I recall that afternoon: the heavy first-of-December skies; the gray-black look on the hemlocks; the faded trunks of the lindens; the dullness of the unreflecting snow; the intermittent soughing of the wind in the pines. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z The constant presence of right ventricular hypertrophy is interesting, the heart dullness extends, as a rule, far to the right of the sternum. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z Two events happened to me about this time 104 which were landmarks in that desert of dullness. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z He saw it even in the soft, round faces of the children who peeped at him from the doorways of cane huts, a somber look, centuries old in its stubborn dullness. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z He made no remark; but feeling the dead-like dullness of my hand, he attempted to cover me with his cloak; I half rose to put it away; Cornelius took no notice of this either. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z Spiritual dullness and indifference, a worldly mind, pride, and disregard for God's grace and ordinance. Luther's Small Catechism Explained in Questions and Answers 2011-05-12T02:00:10.283Z But large or small, always recollect that you can have no right to complain of the dullness of the conversation, unless you have contributed your best efforts to render it cheerful. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z The architect of Berlin appears to have carefully designed his plan according to line and rule in order to produce a capital of dullness as far removed from the picturesque as his ingenuity could accomplish. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z When he shook his head she rallied him with a happy laugh upon his dullness. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z Mrs. Gray was one of those quiet Englishwomen who seem to enjoy dullness for its own sake. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z If dullness seem to enfold us, be sure it is we that are dull; it is because our minds are lazy and our eyes unseeing. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:17.413Z Lengthening the pause without increasing the touch suggests tameness, sluggishness, or dullness of thought. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z But such splendid dullness could not be maintained. Three Weddings And Two Funerals 2011-04-29T17:20:00Z Evie, to whom goodness meant dullness, said, 'I bet he isn't. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z The reviews indeed often verge on dullness and stupidity. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The Ambler House girls had been having a Wednesday evening frolic down in the parlor, with the piano banging and gay voices shouting out their musical defiance of dullness in general. Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman 2011-04-01T02:00:36.933Z There is no attempt at character drawing, and the only things standing out in the overture, except its dullness, are a few scale passages for the bells. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Fall Plowing has this recommendation—it lightens labor at the busier season, by transferring it to one of comparative dullness. What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science 2011-03-29T02:00:08.937Z I believe he hates socialism; he thinks it makes for dullness and stagnation and order and all sorts of things he doesn't like.' Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z Elia in his happiest moods delights me; he is a fine soul; but when he is dull, his dullness sets human stupidity at defiance. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Some of the dullness went out of Greta's eyes for a moment at sight of the impression she was making on the girl. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z He possessed neither the dullness nor the imagination that can make poverty tolerable, but his were the endurance and the cunning that overcome poverty. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z The dullness of England means that Capello is never far from the next reappraisal. England look to Darren Bent to shed the air of predictability 2011-03-25T23:01:01Z While he ate his bread and munched his cheese, she told him, speaking with a tired dullness, something of what had happened during the years of captivity. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z And, as he waits, he laughs at the dullness of the Parisians, who took him at his word.... The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Again and again we've traced Greta Schwarz doing this and that for the International Bureau, being successful and well paid, and suddenly chucking the whole thing and going back to respectability and dullness. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z During the intervening years he enriched the world of thought with seventy volumes of irresistible humor—of brilliant and caustic wit,—in truth, a mine of literary gems undimmed with mediocrity's prosy dullness. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z I wanted him to answer, “how am I supposed to be enchanting when dullness reigns in my environment?” Be Enchanting! Guy Kawasaki Tells How To Win Like Apple 2011-03-07T21:36:52Z What I thought was that if there was anything for Miss Whitehall to be afraid of it wasn't dullness. The Black Eagle Mystery 2011-03-07T03:00:12.497Z And then its first realization came to him in a strange heaviness and dullness in his body, and an almost irresistible desire to sleep. The Strength of the Pines 2011-02-25T03:01:03.770Z His countenance had lost every trace of dullness, and was in an unusual degree sprightly and intelligent. Stories of Great Men 2011-02-21T03:00:07.643Z Their disbelief was condoned by its metaphysical obscurity—their skepticism was redeemed by its unmitigated dullness. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z The debates in the Senate were generally decorous, even to dullness; the House presented a more lively scene, a good many members being sometimes on their feet at once. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z Iola thought it was nice they'd got the cottage but didn't I think Miss Whitehall would be afraid of the dullness of the country after living in town? The Black Eagle Mystery 2011-03-07T03:00:12.497Z Professional men of the highest responsibility and repute, laborers wearying of the dullness in a mining-camp, literary men, clergymen, newspaper men, wire-tappers, shoplifters, vagrants, and outcasts—all are among the number. Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z The big, bare rooms had made Esm� nervous and irritable; she had chafed during the dullness of waiting; had grown fretful and afraid. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Consequently, in good times, when the banks are freely extending credit, the deposits grow, and in periods of dullness and liquidation they decline. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z There is something almost pathetic in the German dullness to the things that move the world. A Noble Woman The Life-Story of Edith Cavell 2011-01-27T03:00:42.663Z Somebody had said “The good die young,” but Daniel had not heard the earlier part of the conversation; and Muriel replied, “Yes, dullness is the most deadly thing on earth, and the most contagious.” Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z They stand uncompromisingly for ugliness, dullness, and restriction—as ends in themselves. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z They were a party of eight, Dollie's bitterly clever tongue keeping away all fears of dullness. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z What a deal of grief, care, and other harmful excitement, does a healthy dullness and cheerful insensibility avoid! A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z Kindness or meanness, brightness or dullness, pluck or timidity, were absolutely undecipherable in that physically perfect countenance. The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business 2011-01-04T03:01:00.723Z Stiffness and dullness, and the usual country-house talk about horses and guns, golf and fishing, did not prevail there. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z Courtney Lawes's failure to put away either of two men clear outside was the most criminal, but Northampton's performance was by now reeking of laziness, or at least mental and physical dullness. Northampton 13-16 Harlequins 2011-01-03T00:06:02Z Mrs Martin had reduced dullness, skilfully touched up with worthiness, to a fine art. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z How he worked and screamed, and twisted, and repeated lines over and over again, and with what indomitable patience and dullness she followed him! A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z She had a morbid suspicion that dullness might be catching. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z These arguments in its favour will keep us from observing too keenly how much the crudeness of some of the colours accentuates the dullness of others. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z Then freely make his dullness known; and when you'd cast him from his throne, you'll find become his followers true, all men who seek a feud with you. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z It was only another example of unimaginative dullness legislating without responsibility. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z Philadelphia, whether justly or not, has the reputation of being very dead-and-alive, and many are the jokes on its dullness. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z Perhaps the U.S. economy's salvation lies in dullness. The U.S. Economy: Stuck in Neutral 2010-10-14T21:00:00Z They managed to lasso Wasps in the second half, notch a penalty to get within four, before dragging the game down into a torpor of dullness for 20 minutes midway through the second half. Wasps 29-29 Harlequins 2010-09-04T18:33:00Z Federer's bent for dullness and propriety at least allows us to appreciate his gifts without tabloid distractions. Tetchy Roger Federer convinced he can win US Open for a sixth time 2010-08-27T18:24:00Z Confined within an inherited masterplan of crushing dullness, it protests its individuality with a courtyard, projecting bays, balconies, sunshades and social rooms. G?nter Behnisch obituary 2010-07-19T17:08:00Z On the other hand, imagine the deadly dullness of Nascar if no car ever crashed. Improving the Dull Game of Soccer 2010-07-10T00:22:00Z Chastity.—Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation. The True Benjamin Franklin As to the versification of them, if there is wit or humor in it, laugh; if ill-nature, sneer; if mere dullness, why, you may even yawn or nod. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Am′blyopy, dullness or obscurity of eyesight without any apparent defect in the organs; the first stage of amaurosis. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide I plunged into gay life at Paris; I dwelt among the loneliest mountains of Switzerland; I endured the dullness of this cold gray London, and the dissipation of Vienna. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 Stunned to outward things, She only knew the dullness sorrow brings. Provocations They had come here to rest from the fatigue of dullness, and in a moment now the chill vapors of the autumn night would wreathe themselves round their journey home. Sinister Street, vol. 2 In attempting to estimate this book, it is necessary to avoid first impressions, for what strikes one on opening its pages is its dullness. Springtime and Other Essays Her anxiety to elude her father's abuse, to free herself from a loveless marriage, to escape the dullness of her oppressive environment, only intensified her longing for freedom and affection. Emma Goldman Biographical Sketch "There is never any dullness," she said, "where that is!" To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 Gower has positively raised tediousness to the precision of science; he has made dullness an heirloom for the students of our literary history. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 "Madam, please explain yourself—" "I mean to test how far the present dullness that seems to have come over you may go." The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter His voice altered at the repetition of the word, and his eyes lost a little of their dullness. The Land of Strong Men Meanwhile the Enchanter was very ill-pleased with the entertainment, which he declared was dullness itself. The Green Fairy Book Dulcie sat behind the little desk near the door, head bowed, her thin hands clasped over the closed ledger, and in her pallid face the expressionless dullness of a child forgotten. The Moonlit Way Three years had taught her brain dullness to such scenes as those. A Bed of Roses Of course, if one possessed great talent, then work lifted you above dullness and routine, brought you beauty and joy. The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines Well," he added, after a moment, "there may be rough spots in a worldly life, but there is no dullness, and, after all, that is what most of us try to avoid. With Edge Tools To rescue the dull from their dullness should be the first impulse, and shallow is the sympathy that does not reach out to such instinctively. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses F the four British commanders here during the Revolution, Howe was certainly the chief, so far as dullness amounting to apathy and slowness almost equal to immobility, went. Conduct of Sir William Howe Observations upon the Conduct of S-r W——-m H—e at the White Plains; As Related in The Gazette of December 30, 1776 Meanwhile, while her blood was aglow, Holt sank further into the dullness of his senses. A Bed of Roses I am obliged, on account of her exceeding dullness, to spend much time in teaching her out of school, in order that she may be able to keep up with her classes. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them But sometimes I feel I hate it most—hate it for its cold dullness of head and heart! The Book of Susan A Novel The dullness of mankind weighed upon him like a nightmare. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Most of the dull people I know ascribe their dullness to lack of opportunities for travel. Patricia Brent, Spinster The heavy dullness of his face was somewhat relieved by his little blue eyes, piercing and sparkling like those of a snake. A Bed of Roses Truth to tell, I had become bored by the deadly dullness of country hotels, therefore I was glad enough to accept his proffered hospitality and spend a pleasant evening. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England Well, we were not to sink into the dullness of our routine just yet. The Great Miss Driver I also showed that his Putta Onorata was not honest, and that he had incited to vice while praising virtue with the dullness of a tiresome sermon. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Yet, after a time, this dullness frequently gives way to a fiery redness; not the floridness of health, but the redness of inflammation and false excitement, which indicates a corresponding depreciation of the mental faculties. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology Now and then too the rumble of a dray or the clatter of a hansom filtered into the dullness. A Bed of Roses Indeed, I was delighted to have found an old friend just when I was in deepest despair of the dullness of everything, and of Christmas in particular. Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England Another quiet, still, hot Sabbath day, the dullness of camp life felt in all its might. An Artilleryman's Diary Why! 'tis the very novelty of the game that will save our lives from dullness," said Diogenes lightly, "just let us pretend to be gentlemen for this one night. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel Greater breadth than sharpness, or more vitality than action, causes sluggishness, dullness of feeling, and inertness, while too great action for strength, wears out its possessor prematurely. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology She hated the dullness and ugliness which the Holts had brought with them from the Midlands. A Bed of Roses She deserved this anxiety and this doubt as a punishment for the way in which she had often scoffed at the dullness of other people who were in love. Plashers Mead A Novel She had neither the brains of her predecessor, William, nor the Teutonic dullness of the Georges who followed her; but she was, above all things, distinctly English. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Fortunately the cheerful dullness of rich people is rarer than it was a century ago. The Book of This and That It is a prevalent notion among the vulgar that clearness of expression leads to dryness and dullness in speaking or writing, owing to the plain garb in which ideas are clothed. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence In spite of a certain monotony of theme and a devastating dullness in its elaboration, Spots seemed to derive considerable pleasure from those works, which he always read while Martin was doing his Greek prose. Years of Plenty Hard, rugged, and dull natures of youth acquit themselves afterwards the jewels of the country, and therefore their dullness at first is to be borne with if they be diligent. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 They did not object to interminable wire-acts, and put up with divination feats of the most exhausting dullness. Carnival He may insert a terse bit of explanation to clear away obscurity, or may add a piquant touch that will redeem a story from dullness. The Style Book of The Detroit News "It isn't that, thrown back on the comparative dullness of security, I find—as people have been known to—my own cause less good: no, it isn't that." The Sacred Fount Weren’t you forever grousing about the dullness of life, and bemoaning yourself because you couldn’t have a taste of excitement? What a Man Wills Vanna’s partners were at a loss to understand her dullness and lack of response, for she had the reputation of wit and charm. A Question of Marriage Jenny began to think she was doomed to settle down into perpetual dullness and never again to be launched desperately on a passionate adventure. Carnival "I have been in the dullnesses of the capital: and there you can prolong your life; for every day is as long as two." Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine If Eanswyth ever had reason to complain of the dullness or loneliness of her life on the farm, here it was quite the reverse. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War In the deadly dullness of her life a change was too rare to be lightly foregone. Lady Cassandra Perhaps our dullness may be accounted for by the fact that there was so much of excitement on this night and the next day, that we hardly had time to think of ourselves. The Minute Boys of Boston They attacked scathingly transgressions of the laws of righteousness and purity, the true sins against God, because these originate in dullness of heart, unbridled passion, and overbearing pride, all so hateful to Him. Jewish Theology I was forever thinking that I could certainly do something to force nature to remove the shadows, the heaviness, the dullness which weighed me down. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Outwitted yesterday by a rolling stone, and to-day by your own inconceivable dullness. Anne This sympathetic trait relieved his discourse of all dryness and dullness. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 The baronet sighed, and looked a picture of hopeless dullness. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier They make desperate efforts to be interested in each other's affairs, and sometimes they succeed, for they manage to stand each other's dullness. The Intelligence of Woman There is nothing, I think, of dullness about this world’s weather; and its hues and tones may still be a sufficient testing theme for the greatest artists with pen or pencil. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday This comes, not from dullness or lack of appreciation, but rather from overappreciation. Anne At certain times the dullness of the shepherd mind became transparent, and revealed the inspired sage. Toilers of the Sea Was it simply the dullness of a sullen, soulless little singer? Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions He is here represented as having long reigned over the kingdom of dullness, but knowing that his end was close at hand, determines to settle the succession to the State. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 I borrowed a Shakespeare from the second chaplain at the Mission to escape from what seemed the dullness of our stay in South Basin, Buenos Aires. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday The faulty side in him predominates, and the general impression he leaves is that of dullness, laboured and negligent by turns. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition It was this romantic streak in the dull fabric of his personality which had attracted her, even if she had not perceived the emotional repose that same dullness afforded her. Command It was not homesickness or melancholy, but dullness, weariness, and a joyless life, that finally drove him back to his native place. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace Shadwell alone my perfect image bears, Mature in dullness from his tender years; Shadwell alone of all my sons is he Who stands confirmed in full stupidity. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 It penetrated even into the damp dullness of the tamarack swamp where old Goshmeelee, the black bear, lived with her precious cubs. Dusty Star In the hands of the French, it has been responsible for much that is uselessly unpleasant and brutal; in the hands of English and American writers, it has been responsible for much dullness. The Technique of Fiction Writing Fate took me into a world of machine-belts, harsh language, and industrial dullness. Captain Macedoine's Daughter In St. Paul's day, as in our own, men would seek escape from the dullness of life and its sense of isolation in the excitement and fellowship which comes of intoxicating drink. St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition Fatigue fell from him as he gazed closely at the Captain, saw for the first time the bitter dullness of Elderburg's eyes. Feline Red As for dullness, she did not know what the word meant. Leonore Stubbs A significant state of dullness reigns supreme in the ancient port, while the town seems to be in a Rip Van Winkle sleep. The Pearl of India She was beautiful, with a perfection of grace, except for the direct gaze of her brown eyes, which revealed an opacity, a dullness, like mud. The Bright Shawl My dear Lady Belfield," replied Mr. Stanley, "you have fully accounted for the dryness and dullness of which you complain. Coelebs In Search of a Wife The ax was not sharp no army ax ever was, but Si's and Shorty's muscles were vigorous enough to make up for its dullness. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro Dull I call them, and I fancy not without reason, though at the moment I speak of their dullness must have been mitigated by the unintermittent presence of the keenest and liveliest of east winds. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. The sun rose higher, and the warm dullness of a California summer day settled down upon the little mountain ranch. Stories of the Foot-hills The Colonel's dullness would not depress her, she having such an eternal spring of gaiety in herself. The Return of the Prodigal She discovered, or rather he discovered, but too late, that the country had not only no charms for her, but that it was a scene of constant ennui and vapid dullness. Coelebs In Search of a Wife He found the ax, "condemned" it for some time as to its dullness and bad condition, but finally attacked with it a tree which had been hauled up back of the company line for fuel. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro Near them was an awkward-looking young fellow, with shoulders too broad for his height, and a general look of chunkiness and dullness. The Life of Nancy There was a sunshiny dullness about the place, like the smiles of a vapid woman. Stories of the Foot-hills His degree of brightness or dullness can be measured by the number of years his mental age is above or below his chronological age. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life It was, indeed, a straining after a social standard not quite within the reach of the ambitious provincial, which produced the conventionalism and dullness, noticed by British visitors in Canadian towns. British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 It did not penetrate very far because of the dullness of the point. Rastignac the Devil It makes blues and dullness seem so important. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted But when I marry it shall be so as to give completeness and expansion to life, not narrowness and dullness. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 Brightness or dullness can also be measured by the intelligence quotient, which is employed so frequently that it is customarily abbreviated to "IQ". Psychology A Study Of Mental Life “Well, we have to take the bad with the good,” said Andy, in reply to Matt’s remark concerning the dullness of trade. Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone Summer in town is a synonym for dullness. The So-called Human Race "I know only one thing that can preserve it from commonplaceness and dullness and dreariness." Brooke's Daughter A Novel In this hour of dullness, many are reflecting on the repose and abundance they enjoyed once in the Union. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital They all did their best to seem cheerful; they talked in a loud voice, they made fun of the servant's dullness, and Manuel Antonio's fear of some contretemps. The Grandee Oliver has gone without me, he simply bursts with health and extraordinary dullness. I'll Leave It To You A Light Comedy In Three Acts His fourteen years of life had been full of stir and action, both for him and all connected with him, and nobody could complain of dullness when Teddy was around. The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out This work is saved from being mischievous only by the circumstance of the excessive dullness diffused over these twelve hundred pages—which will in all probability prevent their being much read.... Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. December 30th.—Some of our officers on furlough complain of the dullness of the war. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital "One needn't let oneself believe that dullness is unhappiness," said Mr. Brumley. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman What joy you take in making hotness hotter, In emphasizing dullness with your buzz, Making monotony more monotonous! Weeds by the Wall Verses There are just two crimes of which a newspaper man may be guilty,—inaccuracy and dullness. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories There are men and women who drum their fingers on a window-pane after breakfast of a morning, and yawn out their disgust at the empty dullness of life, the vacant boredom of another day. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography It seemed to Lucy that her duty had sailed far away from her on some sea of strange distance and dullness where she could scarcely keep it in sight. Sir Tom If the world could always know, as it may in this case, why a book is printed, it would look with kindlier eyes on dullness bound in muslin. Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It They were the butts of the entire party on account of their dullness and heavy eyes. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John He confessed that he did not know, and began to talk learnedly about the Greek and Persian poets, until the lady was consumed with a fever of dullness. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales Truly, to confess ennui, or make complaint of the dullness of life, is to confess to a sort of creeping paralysis of the mind. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography It was evident, for the time being at least, that she meant to make no change, but was fully minded, notwithstanding the dullness of the country, to remain where she was. Sir Tom We cannot, therefore, agree with Drechsler who explains the being "covered," by "dullness and deadness in reference to spiritual things." Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 Such immorality as there is in the country has direct connection with the tedium and dullness of long hours out-doors, alone. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology This42 movement alone would refute all charges of dullness or dryness brought against the fugue by the unthinking or the unenlightened. Music: An Art and a Language Madame Garman's death had, of course, made a great difference, but would hardly suffice to explain the dullness and constraint which prevailed there. Skipper Worse "Get her out of the dullness of this road, Mrs. Shand," he had said. The Sign of Silence And yet it did become exhausted—as could be seen by the dullness in his eyes and his pinched cheeks. Letters from my Windmill Usually it is either neglected altogether, and the result is dullness and monotony; or it is provided for a price, and the result is an organized center of immorality. The Evolution of the Country Community A Study in Religious Sociology In childhood it is very difficult to distinguish real dullness from that misleading apparent dullness which indicates a strong character. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts There is, however, I think, one law about distance, which has some claims to be considered a constant one: namely, that dullness and heaviness of color are more or less indicative of nearness. The Elements of Drawing In Three Letters to Beginners The men talked excitedly in hoarse whispers, or lapsed into a state of terrified dullness. Carmen Ariza The dullness may give way to great uneasiness, champing of the jaws, spasms of the limbs, kicking and pawing the ground. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle Micky was unfeignedly glad to see the little man; for almost the first time in his life he realised that sometimes dullness and short-sightedness are a blessing in disguise. The Phantom Lover Most of all I believe In gods of bitter dullness, Cruel local gods Who seared my childhood. Some Imagist Poets An Anthology The son shrugs his shoulders at the watchwords that thrilled his father, and with varying degrees of sensitiveness or dullness, of fuller or more fragmentary experience, writes out for himself the manuscript of his creed. Five Stages of Greek Religion The suffering victims in the town below were asleep in a state of religious dullness. Carmen Ariza Marked dullness of the animal, passing, according to some observers, into an almost stupefied condition later on, is quite common. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle "It is marvelous to note how happily Mr. Higginson, in securing an amazing compactness by his condensation, has avoided alike superficiality and dullness." Bridge Disasters in America The Cause and the Remedy This is well known to the clergy, who have developed a perfect art of dullness. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Voltaire, who has written against the "System of Nature" in a tone of bitter sarcasm, and who complains of its general dullness and prolixity, yet admits that it is "often humorous, sometimes eloquent." Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." Something had burned out of him these months; an increasing dullness was moving into its place— And just what, he thought, startled, was he doing outside the cabin door now? Gone Fishing Loss of appetite, cessation of rumination and milk secretion, and general dullness are symptoms quite invariably present in most infectious diseases. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle Much latent heat is generating which shall yet warm up the dullness of the land. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer Evidences of satiety, languor, and dullness, the weakened capacity for enjoyment, are sadly conspicuous, the inevitable sequence of indolence and vice. Due South or Cuba Past and Present So do not punish me for my dullness by ceasing to write to me.—Sincerely yours, "Karen Woodruff." Tante "They are stupid people to be sure," Elsie observed, "but then it's a little change from our own special dullness, and we have been alone for three days." A Noble Woman In the latter condition the area of dullness of the heart is much increased, and usually a splashing sound is heard at each beat of the heart. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle Normal credit, therefore, on a healthy basis, increases and slackens with the activity or dullness of trade. Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy |
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