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It's hypnotic at first, then dull.
"If that means dulling down the green, then dull it down.
Jerry Saltz, in the Village Voice, praised the work's "extravagant, eye-popping color"; the Times' Michael Kimmelman called it "hypnotic at first, then dull".
John H. Plumb noted that: Yet the character of George I remains elusive; he was in turn genial and affectionate in private letters to his daughter, and then dull and awkward in public.
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He peers at the author photographs, ruminating on desire, projection, on the poets who are burned, "even the bad ones, on those burning bridges that are so enticing, so fascinating when you're 18, or 21, but then so dull, so monotonous".
The newly-created waves were then dulled down with the help of Oribe Dry Texturizing Hair Spray.
On 222 he drives south through Refton, Hessdale, New Providence, and Quarryville, through Mechanics Grove and Unicorn and then a long stretch so dull and unmarked he doesn't know he's entered Maryland until he hits Oakwood.
But then, the dull grey of the felt slowly induces a sombre tone.
The travelogue of his meetings with jokesters across the Eastern block is fun at first but then becomes dull.
And then their dull little fingers pick out a malted milk, and dip it in some wan tea.
And then the dull thuds of rucksack bombs under London drew Blair back to the capital and our collective gaze inwards and downwards.
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