Hints and tips:
...No wonder: bean counters’ work seems dull compared with oil drillers or flamboyant bankers....
...Brian Schwingle, of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ division of forestry, tells me this year’s severe drought may have played a role....
...The fear is that once founders leave, technocrats will step in and world-building creativity will be replaced with dull, rule-following management....
...There’s no dull unison here, but waves of shifting sound that play with your mind and loosen the ties of ordinary consciousness....
...Casting dazzling light and sinister shadowy forms, Brian Griffin’s firework explodes over booming high-rise London in “Big Bang” (1986) to suggest the city as an unstoppable economic force, yet also a war...
...Letter in response to this editorial comment: A tide in the affairs of British emissions policy / From Brian Scott, Belfast, UK...
...Airbnb’s Brian Chesky sees upside from the looming downturn. He reckons more people struggling with their rent and mortgages will turn to hosting paying guests....
...In the first, tranquil scenes of departure lounges remind us of the scale of the miracle by which mass air travel grew so safe as to actually become dull....
...“There was never a dull moment with you around, on or off the field. Will always treasure our on-field duels and off-field banter....
...Exciting things can happen in dull places, but noteworthy thrillers tend to be set in a glamorous, or at least gritty, locale....
...For a quarter of a century, Brian Dillon has been collecting sentences....
...Visually, it’s a dull, drab time of pervasive low expectations....
...Brian Cox, the Succession actor, never gives a dull interview. Is this my only chance to touch Roger Federer? In the end, I’m going for the author Zadie Smith....
...It’s one I should have heeded this time last year, when I wrote that lead indicators pointed to 2020 being a dull year, with the All-Share index rising only slightly....
...Brian Wieser, global president of business intelligence at GroupM, said there was a need to “look beyond the period directly in front of us”....
...But Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky isn’t popping the champagne....
...In the sleeve notes to 1978’s Ambient 1: Music for Airports, Brian Eno wrote that it was designed “to induce calm and space to think”. The album succeeded....
...After an instrumental opening that went on past the point at which it built up anticipation, into the area at which it became dull, 78-year-old Moroder ambled on in a glittery silver bomber jacket and shades...
...IG Group has interims that look a bit dull. .... Davos coverage has been ringfenced for your safety .......
...Like the musician Brian Eno, who talks about “scenius”, he believes genius is the product of the collective creativity of a community, more often the result of continuous growth....
...Creative chemistry is gestured at on-screen, Freddie the visionary, Roger the lady-killer, Brian professorial....
...The GW is a handy device for interior designers, who can signal a client’s personality (or imbue a dull client with personality) via the arrangement of art....
...Some will be dull. A few will be rotters and one or two might be admirable. To expect relentless excitement from them all is idiotic....
...Some of the speakers were dull (Alex “A Rod” Rodriguez); others were not (Pitbull). But all were there to tell attendees that they were all proven winners, just for having bought a ticket....
...The direct translation from Mandarin of “dementia” is “dull-witted and old”. “There is little education and awareness,” she says....
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