On Mr. Hampton's birthday in 1989, the year he decorated the Bush White House, Duane Hampton's card to her husband read, "Are a few dull moments too much to ask for?" "And I have thought many times since," she said, "watch out what you ask for.
Are animal spirits dulled by too much regulation, making businesses wary of hiring?
Here that word is reinterpreted to mean a small flatbread boat, turned up at the edges so it can take the filling which, again, like the lamb, is dulled by too much yogurt.
Too little selfishness and the play is dull and drab, too much and it unsettles the team chemistry.
I'd always been a reporter, partly because I feared my own life would make dull literary fodder (too much pleasure, too little misery) and partly because my father was an essayist and I felt that in the Fadiman biome, that ecological niche was already taken.
"What the networks offer us," he declares at one point, "is the therapy of spectacle, excess and sedation -- our humanity dulled by megadoses, like too much pornography dulls real sex, too much volume eventually deafens, and too much information dulls the truth".
It reduces the sparkle from your eyes, leaving them duller and with too much alcohol consumption over time, the white areas of your eyes can appear yellow and tired.
In The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway mocks the words of his friend F Scott Fitzgerald: "The rich… were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon.
They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves.Ernest Hemingway offered up his even more famous response, in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro": The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon.
Even though evolution has molded us rare pair-bonding mammals to find relationships rewarding, their subtler, healthier rewards don't generate the supranormal stimulation of hours of vivid erotic imagery--especially not as we dull our senses with too much of it.
