Hints and tips:
Rubies and emerald prices hold up but man-made rivals dull demand of diamonds
...Contestant Mollie Pearce warned Harry Clark that if he betrayed her, she would never speak to him again....
...It’s a question I discussed last weekend with the architect and designer Harry Nuriev, museum director Melissa Chiu and Net-a-Porter president Alison Loehnis: three arbiters of style....
...No, I just thought it was dull and actually, I was checking my phone a lot....
...More like another dull clang. I admit that two months ago it felt like we’d caught the wave and now —wipeout. But we need to get back on the board....
...Even in a dull year, the Conservative party is never short of options for compilers, since its name can be applied to clues or solutions in various forms — C, CON, TORY....
...If the Shakespeare book comes out, don’t expect an exegesis of the plays that hadn’t occurred to Coleridge or Harold Bloom.But then fortunes aren’t paid in speaking fees to the dull....
...For another, lower compensation demoralises strong performers and dulls incentives....
...“It would be a very dull world if people like me didn’t just push things a bit too far for our own good,” Anderson says....
...Yet there’s something about this dull little drama that has hooks. It goes beyond the obvious lure of glimpsing behind-the-scenes ego-tangles....
...That’s just one fewer than Harry Styles, whom they will join in February as support on his world stadium tour....
...A handful seized the opportunity — led by Harry Markowitz....
...“Most of royal life is crushingly dull. It’s like being a battery hen in the Waldorf Astoria,” says Brown....
...Without playfulness, royal grandeur dulls into Hollywood kitsch: Annie Leibovitz’s melodramatic presentation from 2007 looks crass....
...This has always been rather dull on the way to the college library....
...Global policymakers have launched huge fiscal and monetary stimulus measures this year to dull the economic blow caused by coronavirus....
...If you try to do that it becomes dull, you take the edge off. It’s a very, very slippery slope.”...
...Your scientific advisers want to give dull, repetitive, depressing briefings about locking down for the long haul. You need a better script....
...While she bemoans the lack of daring in her field — “Architecture is so dull these days. We have no manifestos any more. It’s cautious....
...It feels rude to point out how little was expected of Harry Truman when he became US president 75 Aprils ago. He was “just” a Missouri haberdasher....
...He never wrote a dull or commonplace review, even of dull or commonplace films....
...“If you only put beautiful things next to beautiful things it becomes a bit dull,” Handelsman replies with a broad grin. “Sometimes you need something a bit unexpected....
...HBO Max will launch in May, it said, and include shows and films such as Game of Thrones, Harry Potter and Friends for $15 a month. 🍏 Six months ahead of HBO Max, Apple TV+ launches on Friday....
...Yes, the New Museum’s Hans Haacke: All Connected show is dull, depressing, and ugly, but its arrival is perfectly timed....
...“Dull, dreary and dubiously written,” declared USA Today. A “disappointing creation”, said Entertainment Weekly....
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