Nor does it help that Jamie is so withdrawn as to be downright dull. (Nothing is harder to write than an interesting play about a dull person.) The biggest problem of all is the ending, which feels contrived rather than earned, just as Mark Wendland's picture-puzzle set is too explicitly symbolic of the play's theme.
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Fleischer found himself explaining that thinking Wednesday, saying that although the government was unlikely to do anything as gas prices continue to rise into the summer, consumers would be able to dull the ache if they start to see more money in their paychecks.
Whether built with delicate sensitivity to materials or dull adherence to principles, the glass box became an icon of Cold War capitalism, a symbol of modernist cosmopolitanism befitting a global superpower in the making.
He had everything to live for, on a Tuesday, and no reason to dull his life with liquor, no reason to hide in a whiskey haze.
Rather than boring your customers to death, there is a clear opportunity to put the dull corporate website to rest.
Stocks were soon to turn dull, and they were to remain so for a decade.
But this time, the substance in question is not meant to dull and numb.
That is just as likely to dull the appetite for independence as to whet it.
The only current treatments for osteoarthritis are painkillers and non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, which are also given to dull pain.
Quarter of a century in the role has done nothing to dull his passion for his beloved game.
Perhaps more worrying to the monarch, coffee threatened to stimulate ideas that alcohol could be counted on to dull.
In 1986, after 14 years of marriage to dull diplomat Francis Kellogg, she hooked a married billionaire, oilman Sid Richardson Bass.
As I have stressed before, it is deadly dull to use PowerPoint slides as your notes, because everyone else can see them.
But at least there's money to dull the pain--both Leinart and Bush make it onto Forbes' latest list of the NFL's most overpaid players.
NSAIDs are widely used to dull muscle strains, aches and fever.
Such was Sampras' supremacy over his rivals that he rarely received due credit for his achievements and faced persistent accusations that his introverted personality made him dull to watch.
Ms Gillard seems to have allowed her personal obsession with the politics of the asylum issue to dull the strategic success she won in the campaign for a carbon plan.
In 1986, after 14 years of marriage to dull diplomat Francis Kellogg (nyse: K - news - people ), she hooked a married billionaire, oilman Sid Richardson Bass.
Whether or not U.S. lawmakers cut a deal to dull the economic impact of expiring tax cuts and mandated spending decreases, more and more companies appear to be operating under the assumption that rates on investment income including dividends is going to move in only one direction, higher.
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But on page 5, next to a dull column on President Ulysses S. Grant's address to the Congress of the United States, was a headline, loss of the deutschland.
To outsiders this may sound pretty dull, but to insiders it is the very stuff of working life.
Although email has gone from after-school treat to a dull routine in the space of 20 years, no one is ready to ring its death knell just yet.
According to Brooks, in the short term the first places we will see this next generation of intelligent, collaborative and trainable robot like Baxter, is on production lines where robots will be used by factory floor workers to do the truly dull and repetitive jobs, freeing up those workers to do tasks that require more dexterity and judgment.
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To further dull the pain, she drank, developing a problem she later realized was alcoholism.
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The Weather Channel might seem like a painfully dull app to kick off the proceedings.
It is often considered that her existence was so dull as to defy narration.
Press the "Exit" button and you go back to your dull little PC dutifully performing dull little tasks.
Say "Bye Bye, Birdie" to another dull destination and "Hello Dolly!"
And in the long run later retirement and other reforms will expand the labour force and thus potential output, whereas higher taxes dull incentives to work and invest.
To be honest, no matter how many products you brand with the letter i, the Web can be a pretty dull place to be if you're surfing on an Apple.
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