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...But a list of red tape and unnecessary rules would become dull quite quickly. The Friction Project is all the better for recognising and analysing the opposite problem: too little friction....
...The dull repetition of published facts is interrupted only by the odd schoolboy error — TUC Congress is wrongly called TUC Conference — and some wordings in one section seem to have been lifted straight...
...John Malkovich’s Ripley found him decades later, waspish, balding, his soul now further atrophied....
...A handful — Britain’s John Akomfrah, France’s Julien Creuzet — produced the most impressive pavilions of 2024, as did, on tight budgets, several “Global South” countries (see my top five choices below)....
...Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant (Sceptre/Knopf) This story of the powerful 2016 wildfire that swept through the Canadian city of Fort McMurray is based on a grim but compelling...
...Finally, she highlights John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s bed-in protests of the late ’60s as a winning cultural carnation moment....
...Cameron’s female portraits tell one truth: sitters look doleful, bored, hard-pressed, because modelling was tedious, and they had dull, dutiful, oppressed lives....
...Grain prices have declined in response to the high production, which could lower farm incomes and dull demand for equipment. Deere shares closed 5.3 per cent lower on Friday....
...I thought it was quite dull, actually. I thought a lot of it was dull. I was really expecting. I sat down thinking, right, I’m gonna be worried. I’m gonna be scared, can I say shitless?...
...John Reed G20 is kind of boring. It’s very dull and worthy of stuff....
...Even on a dull winter morning, as intricate tendril-like metal columns soar above our heads, the light is dazzling. “The sky completely inhabits the space.”...
...Further reading: — Fact-checking some dull bits of Elon Musk’s biography...
...For non-enthusiasts, watching hours-long chess matches, which often end in dull draws, ranks up there with snail racing as a parody of fast-paced entertainment....
...pilita.clark@ft.com Letters in response to this column: Yeah yeah, as I was saying / From John Steward, White Plains, NY, US Boardroom bickies: pink wafers or Jammie Dodgers?...
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Nato finished up its two-day summit in Lithuania yesterday and it was anything but dull....
...Though Sunak had sought to rebuild bridges, John Dickie, chief executive of BusinessLDN, which represents some of the UK’s biggest employers, said the prime minister had “unwound a fair bit of that work...
...AI can perform dull, repetitive tasks. They also have no shame in generating apparently dumb, but occasionally inspired, outputs, which humans might be too embarrassed to air....
...But brilliance on demand can become strangely dull....
...This taste for boredom is far more boring — basic wool trousers, a cotton T-shirt, a nice dull coat if the weather allows....
...While America’s next election looks like being a choice between two old men, one of them a charlatan, ours will be between two sensible, if slightly dull, candidates....
...As dull as it may seem, think practicality first and taste will follow. So, plan your room carefully. Mark out where you intend everything to go....
...The originality of “Mai”, Britain’s first non-white portrait subject unconnected with slavery, has garnered fresh interest for an artist often dismissed as pompous, dull, a toady to the aristocracy....
...Among the friendships made in the long dull days and nights in luxury Indian hotels have been that between Cummins and the current England coach, Brendon “Baz” McCullum....
...But I also know dull ones, and I believe that getting an education from these universities can sometimes breed a kind of complacency, groupthink and sense of superiority — irritating at best, corrosive at...
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