Word: duller
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...plot boils up a satisfactory climax and the audience starts fumbling for its galoshes when the picture goes through its first red light. More, and duller plot-and then it passes another stopping place, shipping boredom like a leaky boat. By the time the movie decides it has had enough, the audience is way ahead...
...ranking general told his own story, though Katherine Tupper Marshall told her husband's, Ike Eisenhower had a tactful Boswell in his naval aide, Harry C. Butcher (My Three Years with Eisenhower), and General Lewis H. Brereton published his diaries, which made him out a far duller man than his fellow flyers knew him to be. The war in China was presented from an anti-Chiang point of view by Theodore H. White and Annalee Jacoby in Thunder out of China, which sold like hot cakes...
Author Flagg's roving eye also lights on the Barrymores, "the most self-centered, spoiled, irresponsible leprechauns ever to crawl out of a hollow tree-life would have been much duller without them. Jack and I had a lot in common (possibly the less admirable traits). . . . We were both agreeably astonished that each of us was a friend and admirer of Jeddu Krishnamurti or Krishna...
...supreme effort he managed to be duller and more dignified than the mayor. Seattle voters, confronted almost for the first time with two polite candidates, hardly knew where to turn. As for Vic Meyers, he hadn't looked as happy in years...
...yourself liable to be called just that when you say "dull, duller, Dulles" is a conjugation...