Word: dulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What happened to make Toni feel that way? On a pleasant evening several weeks back, she had driven out to a nightclub with her dull but good-looking young man. Stan Walters, as described by his teen-age brother, is "the guy who goes through life and nothing happens because he keeps counting his change." On this night, really afraid of love behind his great-lover facade, Stan got hopelessly drunk. Toni, trying to get home alone, was forced into a stolen car by two young toughs, was raped, brutally beaten and thrown...
...this underworld, shy, sickly, dowdy and dull Princess Anne-later Good Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart monarchs-groped for a hand to guide her. She turned to one of her childhood friends, Sarah Jennings, and found that her hand was dexterous, hard and tipped with eagle's claws...
Among the many virtues of the play--as of most of Vidal's writing--is the freshness of the dialogue. He avoids dull or hackneyed speech; his lines are original and unpredictable, and be-speak an uncommonly imaginative creative mind...
There are standard gripes you can make: A Touch of the Poet is long, unwieldy, even dull at times. But it is O'Neill no matter and a stunning array of talent. There is no mistaking that...
When things calmed down at Kasba Mechta, Dubos sought new risks. Signing up for an additional year's service, he voluntarily took command of a small forest encampment at El Hourane, a job that no one else wanted because the duty was both dull and dangerous. Early in February this year, the risks caught up with him. Algerian rebels, disguised in the Spahi uniform of Dubos' troopers, overran the El Hourane post, carried Olivier Dubos and 17 of his men into captivity in the Kabylia mountains...