Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chalkhills and Children" also achieves a meditative tone in a slow, heavy journey over a dream landscape which makes a statement about the danger of fame. Moulding's attempt at thoughtfulness, however, falls flat in "Cynical Days," a song resembling a pre-teen poem of depression: "Another see-through scheme, people are shallow. The dark night's closing in, my dark thoughts follow." By forcing Partridge's voice to assume a lilting tone, "Cynical Days" leans more toward the laughable than the depressing...
Lottman points out these contradictions simply by telling the story, but he never addresses them, and this lack of explanation leaves the character of Flaubert disappointingly flat...
...Overall I'm happy with the progress that we made this season but we still have some big, big holes and some flat spots," Peckham said...
...plan that would disband the anti-Sandinista contras now holed up in Honduras in exchange for new guarantees of democracy by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. Though Baker had met with the Foreign Ministers of Honduras and Costa Rica only a week before, the State Department was caught flat-footed. Spokesman Charles Redman could only declare, "We weren't at the meeting. We'd like to find out more about...
...Bailey] was a little flat in the first two games, and it was difficult for her to turn it on after that," Assistant Coach Ron Jacobs said...