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...Jonas Merrick, the protagonist of Gerald Seymour’s In at the Kill (Hodder and Stoughton, £22), is the antithesis of an action hero....
...Remember QuadrigaCX, the Canadian crypto-ponzi platform that imploded shortly after the reported death of founder Gerald Cotten?...
...It has been a worthy but rather dull season....
...Tim Moore Discovery: One cloudless morning late in August, I drove into Idaho with a dull headache — the legacy of having just crested the Rockies, and having done so in an open-sided, tirelessly deafening...
...It has been a year of extraordinary drama in the campaign, but it has been a dull one on the markets, with the biggest excitement so far stemming from a sell-off in early January triggered by concerns about...
...To March 20 2016, lacma.org Photograph: Gerald Zugmann/Gehry Partners LLP...
...Hardman shows that the king, felled by the 1789 Revolution, was flawed but by no means the lazy, dull-witted monarch of contemporary and historical caricature....
...That said, this season has been far from dull....
...“Many hotels have fantastic rooms and locations, but dull food and beverage.”...
...Never a dull moment at Eurasian Natural Resources, which last week parted company with chief commercial officer Jim Cochrane....
..., by Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus, Norton, RRP£12.99 Written before the Libyan war, this book examines the case for “liberal interventionism”....
...Here, the ensembles are as dull as Giovanni’s party, and we are left wondering why Act One ends with a cheap flame show and what the sustained snowfall means in Act Two....
...From his first scene, when he marches across the yard with his flunkies to accuse Terry-Thomas of “jeropardising the safety of employees”, Kite is both authentically dull and weirdly hypnotic....
...Designs were to be by Gerald Scarfe, music by André Previn. But Powell was scuppered by the furore created by his indisputably creepy Peeping Tom ....
...If nothing equals this, it is not surprising, but narrative through movement was MacMillan’s forte, so Isadora’s lewd cavortings with a man on the beach in order to dull the pain mean something; would that...
...His Cockney successor Alan Searle looked like a Bronzino painting, but was whiny and dull....
...” … The broadcasters are still worried, however, that Britain’s first televised election debates could be dull viewing....
...This ENB Nutcracker, with its brutish “concept” and garish design by Gerald Scarfe, its limp and limping choreography by Christopher Hampson, is entirely odious....
...The rest is thuddingly dull. Leon Botstein, conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and four of London’s leading choirs, steered a steady course....
...Sumner Redstone’s A Passion to Win is poorly written and dull, even though he has had an eventful life....
...In one evening (the sold-out festival ran for three days) I saw more talent, inventiveness, skill, choreography and artistry than in many a dull programme of worthy, po-faced contemporary dance....
...Giardinetto in Albemarle Street is all smoked glass and gleaming chrome, expensive leather chairs and plates that are oval or rhomboid or octagonal but never anything so dull as round. And the food....
...A boring, dull speech?" Well, yes, a "boring, dull speech" would have been much better. That is exactly what thousands of company bosses deliver every week....
...The speeches resulting from this can be "balls-achingly dull", according to Prof Aziz, who says: "You are just showing people your notes."...
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