Then again, maybe all that ketchup has dulled the pain.
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The proliferation of international biennials and triennials dulled its edge.
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The sacred word has been made banal, its intensity dulled.
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The project starts brightly, but that shine is too quickly dulled.
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The inconsistencies and variations in these paintings challenge our dulled gaze.
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Even negative memories and emotions can get dulled down, Koob adds.
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The problem is that a conservative judge just dulled their knife.
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The eyes of the locals pull first to Daniel's mud-dulled boots.
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But ultimately, its dulled by the refusal to try anything too new.
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That said, some of the show's impact has dulled in recent years.
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But because their sensation is dulled, they often don't appreciate the danger.
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However, the exhibition's impact is dulled by its location within the museum.
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Spring fever could be a bit delayed — or dulled — until April 15.
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They're likely to be dulled by the explosions in Brussels, he said.
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In 15 years, the violence of those colors hasn't dulled a shade.
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S. tariff dispute that has dented global growth and dulled business sentiment.
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Next come the sliced onions, their sting dulled by fat and heat.
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Anticipation of the championship series has dulled the excitement around other teams.
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The bright moments were dulled, as if felt by another person entirely.
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The Casual Vacancy effectively dulled my appetite for grownup books from J.K. Rowling.
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Our senses are dulled by the incessant bludgeoning of the 2018 content cycle.
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With Trump's protectionism and isolationism dulled, what remains of his "America First" agenda?
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His eyes electric and searching, yet just as quickly dulled again, as if . . .
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As a result, talent like Weaver's is stifled, dulled into redundant expository flourishes.
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Much like having a cold, our senses are dulled, rendering food bland-tasting.
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Not because they seemed to have had their edge dulled by success, particularly.
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As the years dulled the sharpness of grief, our relationship grew less turbulent.
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Amy Schumer's hilarious sense of humor hasn't dulled since welcoming her son Gene Attell.
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Still, the multi-camera sitcom's fall from critical grace has dulled its overall impact.
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With that dulled, they showed different, and at times opposing effects, as the women.
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Time, Mr Holland says, has "dulled" people to the "utter strangeness" of Paul's message.
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It should never be dulled because we have to fight for our right to exist.
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He perfectly reflects Michael's boredom back at him, a frustrating facsimile of Michael's dulled outlook.
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Uncertainty around where the U.S.-China trade standoff is headed has dulled the dollar's appeal.
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The euro-zone's economy has been slowing, largely because of dulled demand for its exports.
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The relatable moments and quotes in "Skam" stimulated a generation dulled by broadcasters' lazy commissions.
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The edge that private equity had over large listed stocks seems also to have dulled.
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Not the GOP nomination, nor victory on Election Day, has dulled his taste for conflict.
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Edgar's problem is physical; the new anxiety medication he's taking has dulled his sex drive.
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It turns and fixes the pain-dulled saucers of its enormous eyes on Rae's face.
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The Mia we meet is muted — dulled and diminished by what has happened to her.
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But in recent weeks his image has taken a tarnishing -- dulled by his own hand.
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His report's arid language, gummy syntax and thick riddles dulled its findings of awful conduct.
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His report's arid language, gummy syntax and thick riddles dulled its findings of awful conduct.
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On his earliest mixtapes, he emerged as a coldhearted menace, dulled to the world's pain.
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Idleness and isolation have dulled the spirits of a people whose ancestors were feared cattle rustlers.
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Now, picture your post-vacation self: exhausted and dulled down from jet-lag and work dread.
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Granted, luxury-property buyers often pay cash; but their appetite may be dulled by falling yields.
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It seems more vibrant than before, its emptiness dulled by my encounter with another human being.
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As was the case with any condom he'd ever used, it also dulled any pleasurable sensations.
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Much of the bounce back comes as manufacturers are working to correct for dulled consumer interest.
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Maybe it's dulled the memory a bit, but was Duchovny, famously laconic anyway, always this sedated?
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The Marisili family can smell, and they do still have some pain sensing, it's just dulled.
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I dulled out I guess towards the end, but it was exciting enough from my seat.
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Sensitive nerves in the surrounding skin, muscles and membranes were dulled by injections of local anaesthetic.
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But just dropping a new piece into a standard-fare program dulled the party a bit.
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Your taste buds are dulled, you're tired, your nose is running and your throat is sore.
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Males avoid mating with females whose feet has been dulled with paint, the researchers also discovered.
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Players chuck dulled hatchets at a wooden bull's-eye in an attempt to make them stick.
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Moreover, China's vast services sector has lost steam, while an increasingly cautious consumer outlook dulled retail sales.
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After Chuck and Wendy's sexual predilections were exposed last season, their usually regular sex life is dulled.
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There are few dull moments during the N.C.A.A. tournament, and therefore few opportunities for a dulled mind.
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This fact is only slightly dulled by the fact that the characters are mice and not people.
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Tariffs, imposed or threatened, have dulled foreign competition and pushed up the price of American-made metal.
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A string of huge stimulus packages under Mr Abe has dulled the impact of a listless economy.
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"Both polishes dulled a bit and had some scratching, but still looked pretty nice overall," she says.
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Carr examines the profound human consequences of automation, including dulled skills and a greater susceptibility to surveillance.
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The early sense of play gave way to dulled-down, chunk-of-metal-in-a-plaza heaviness.
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Gold prices, dulled by the stronger-than-expected U.S. consumer inflation data, regained some of their shine.
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The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) thought the bubble interpretation dulled the law, and sued the EPA.
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By Thursday afternoon, the black pavement on Pennsylvania Avenue was dulled under a thick layer of salt.
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Over the years, she regained her senses of taste and smell, which had been dulled by smoking.
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This might be the right call in a business where its old competitive edges have been dulled.
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However, analysts say that its effectiveness has been increasingly dulled with rising debt risks and inefficient projects.
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But the burning intensity of his playing hasn't dulled in the almost 30 years since his death.
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Well, I was under the influence of pills that I thought dulled my pain, but actually created it.
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I breathed through it, and the pain eventually dulled — and my deep breaths also helped clear my mind.
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The years-long lull in the region's hurricane activity hasn't dulled preparations made by emergency managers, Eosco said.
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Mr. Gygax, who died in 2008, a year before Mr. Arneson, felt that computer graphics dulled the imagination.
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And for Ohio-based indie developer Tyler Hogle, Night Trap's charms haven't dulled all that much at all.
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After countless takes and live performances, she says it's been dulled, removed several times from the actual breakup.
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Unfortunately, the chemical dulled the meat's colors, which Soutine remedied by regularly dousing the carcasses with fresh blood.
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The sun was a lemon-yellow blob, so dulled they could stare straight at it if they liked.
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Kevin Draper: Uruguay's early brightness has dulled, and the match is becoming the French-controlled affair we expected.
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They reflect, in part, how investment has lagged in Russia and how Western sanctions have dulled its economy.
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Basically, whenever our normal conscious defenses against saying something dumb are dulled, word errors like these may sneak out.
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Now, she's proving that her Harvard pedigree and natural smarts haven't been dulled by her lifetime in the spotlight.
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Higher-frequency sounds were dulled to essentially a background whisper, easily overpowered by the actual music you're listening to.
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Time has not dulled the pain of his death to his family or quelled the community's cries for justice.
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But they also changed the way publications cover celebrity families and dulled the stigma often prescribed to nontraditional couples.
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Some have blamed the schemes' dulled impact on poor leadership and a failure to enthuse schools about the project.
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The sheen of what was in fact quite a good show was dulled by the injection of the split.
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My husband's sensations were less dulled than usual, too, since it was the thinnest traditionally shaped condom we used.
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I am concerned that over the course of about 25 years the operational edge of the Navy has dulled.
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Thinking back to Hugo Chávez's glory years, it's amazing how severely the revolutionary sheen of Chavismo has been dulled.
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Its spoils, coupled with the false narrative that we live in a meritocracy, have dulled our sense of empathy.
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She could fix the machine when it kicked back, sharpen the chain when it dulled, clean the clutch cover.
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But while the prototype truck was quick, the sensation of speed was dulled by its size and (undisclosed) weight.
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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq edged up to all-time highs before a decline in oil dulled the gains.
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The dollar's rise dulled the allure of gold, the traditional safe-haven asset in times of political and economic uncertainty.
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Mark Zuckerberg ran his apology scripts, trotted out his lists of policy fixes and generally dulled the Senate into submission.
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Despite some great experiences, months of near-total unavailability dulled the post-release buzz for both headsets, particularly the Rift.
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The edge of "Every Breath You Take" has been dulled by every time I heard it at a grocery store.
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So, playing this game with a headache, with pressure in my skull and dulled sense of smell, was almost perfect.
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But she said that the drug sealed her off from the rest of the world, leaving her dulled and depressed.
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We see these relationships only through Myshkin's eyes, dulled through the distance of time and his own emotions and judgments.
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The trauma of that chapter has barely dulled, and for many it has been refreshed by the latest political crisis.
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Basically it's a label for dramatized contemporary laments: dislocation, spiritual anonymity, a dulled and dying relationship to the physical world.
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This is also a refillable razor, so go ahead and replace a dulled cartridge with the Venus Extra Smooth refills.
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The successful Kickstarter is certainly an indication that folks are interested, but a string of delays may have dulled that desire.
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Former college athletes, dulled by office life, are frantic to recapture the glory they left behind on their college football fields.
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The fine "micro-abrasions" are everywhere and I can now see the dulled aluminum peeking out from underneath the glossy finish.
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But since then, rival Facebook has dulled Snap's competitive edge, DiClemente said, by releasing copycat products to its massive user base.
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When you press play on it inside iTunes or Spotify, you're hearing a compromised version: it's softer, fuzzier, and palpably dulled.
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In the context of the Seder, the attention to current injustice can be hippieish and overwhelming (not to mention hunger-dulled).
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The rock-star edge has dulled a bit in recent years, with more empty nesters than pop artists calling it home.
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I can still eat a Butterfinger and smell spring meadows, but the sensory experience has dulled through repetition, familiarity and aging.
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Without a focused narrative, the humor dulled into a series of gags, propped up by guest stars who overstayed their welcome.
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The psychological effect of the increase, the third of 220, may be dulled as consumers grow conditioned to the such moves.
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We were finally released into the street hours later, clutching bidets, brains dulled from the creation that had just been birthed.
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But when the series premiered its fifth season in February, the din that typically surrounds it dulled to a distant murmur.
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The scattershot approach ultimately dulled its narrative mode until, with Black Ops 4, Activision and developer Treyarch decided to remove it altogether.
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But I felt emotionally/mentally/physically dulled, as if I was living a 'half life,' and never part of my 'whole' self.
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The Eagles' novelty has been dulled by radio repetition, but if the world has gotten tired of it, it's not showing it.
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The second part of "What's My Name," perhaps inevitably, turns attention to Ali's decision to continue fighting even as his skills dulled.
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When the senses are dulled, you really need to smash all the buttons on the circuitboard of your tongue to sense flavor.
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Cautious tactical play dulled both finals, turning them into marathons awaiting the first slip-up of tired minds or a careless error.
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I still spent plenty of days at work in a haze of Percocet and half-dulled pain, trying to fake being professional.
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Namajunas managed to put Jedrzejczyk on edge in a way that no one else has and dulled her reactions in the process.
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As that sense dulled so did the sense that the French train system had a special place in the country's cultural imagination.
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Combatants bludgeoned their opponents to the ground with swords, winged maces, and sledge hammers, among other weapons dulled per the competition's rulebook.
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In all, the movie is a cunning and peppy surprise, dulled only by the news that no less than four sequels await.
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When saying and hearing it becomes automatic and expected, its power becomes dulled in our brain's limbic system, where we process love.
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When appointment-time came, my anxiety was somewhat dulled by the staff's kind bedside manner and efficiency of swiftly moving through each test.
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The ubiquity of Tommy John surgery in baseball's current era has perhaps dulled the general sense of how big a deal it is.
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If Republican insiders were not reeling from six years of internal conflict and dulled by complacency, what would have happened to Trump's campaign?
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She's working at Phil's agency, and seeing Hollywood from the other side has dulled her desire to pursue her dreams as an actress.
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Safe havens like gold and the Japanese yen fell after a rally in global equities dulled appetite, and induced a risk-on mode.
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Gold fell to its lowest in over two weeks meanwhile, as the dollar's strength dulled its appeal, leaving it as low as $1,308.
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Look at dubstep and electro, or moombahton and baile funk, kuduro or EBM; the cutting edge quickly becomes a dulled and blunted knife.
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His reliance on announcing and hinting of what's to come whether that's a new project or collaboration has dulled any sense of anticipation.
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It was a lot to ask a man to run the gnarliest downhill in the world twice, on dulled skis and depleted legs.
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That cost me the movement and feeling in my legs, except for some weak movement and dulled sensation in the upper thigh area.
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The film is messy and disorganized, a disparate mix of superhero flash dulled by a soulless script and a terminal lack of logic.
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Gold prices took a hit as surging U.S. treasury yields and an ongoing rally in equities dulled the precious metal's safe-haven sheen.
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Asked if those blockades had significantly dulled the expected strength of the economy's rebound this quarter, 13 of 19 economists said it had.
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Spot gold slipped 0.1 percent to $1,333.36 per ounce after the U.S. government shutdown ended and dulled the precious metal's safe-haven appeal.
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Masterpieces dulled by overfamiliarity in an account that had become as rote as a college textbook spring to second lives by being repositioned.
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Maybe over the years, I'd grown up as much as the main character, and like Danny Torrance, the shine had dulled inside me.
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Shells drop from the sky near them and they barely duck, dulled to the danger by being bathed in it for so long.
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For Ptonomy there can be no nostalgia — romanticizing your past requires its edges be dulled, impossible when every memory is sharp as a blade.
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The skin at the base of the eye has been lightened, and the eye color has been dulled, making the eyes stand out less.
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TOKYO, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Japanese government bond prices edged down on Thursday as risk aversion eased and dulled investor demand for safe-haven debt.
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I don't know how many knives this will sharpen before losing its effectiveness, but it handled the first eight badly dulled knives I tried.
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Gold prices, dulled by the stronger-than-expected U.S. consumer inflation data, regained their shine thanks to renewed trade worries and rate cut expectations.
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Moto's competitive edge has been dulled by the grind of Lenovo's assimilation Lenovo and Motorola are going through the exact same pains of integration.
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The presumptive-favorite status of the Cavs and Warriors has, in recent seasons, dulled some of the shine of playoff matchups involving other teams.
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Two teams of up to 25 people on horseback competeto inflict horrible wounds on one another with dulled bamboo spears, and then it ends.
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But his prestige-picture follow-up, the real-life disaster drama The Impossible, dulled his edges with a sentimental core and some questionable choices.
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When I picked him up from class, I noticed his heavy gait, how he stumbled forward while walking, and how his eyes seemed dulled.
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The Dow and the S&P hit record highs on Friday after weak economic data dulled prospects of more interest rate hikes this year.
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Hip problems dulled his effectiveness for the Giants, and a 2016 cameo for the Los Angeles Angels produced a 9.16 E.R.A. in nine starts.
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Costa, who had developed a knack for unsettling Arsenal's defense — riling them, bullying them — scored a goal but seemed uncharacteristically inhibited, his edge dulled.
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The twin points of light in his eyes had dulled and nearly vanished, as if someone with a minute brush had painted them gray.
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While it is doubtful that rural Republicans will be voting for Democrats in November, it is more likely that their enthusiasm will be dulled.
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Furthermore, as a left-hander he would restring right-handed guitars "the wrong way up", which dulled the high notes and brightened the low ones.
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The movie was criticized for sanitizing the book's darker themes in favor of maudlin, fantastical special effects that dulled the heaviness of the subject matter.
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Hillary Clinton celebrates victory But for one night, the grays of gender politics -- and politics in general -- were dulled by the bright strokes of history.
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So far, however, the Hinkley hoo-ha does not seem to have dulled the Chinese appetite, especially among private companies, for British expertise and assets.
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As she walked through the forest, her breathing echoed in her ears, dulled only slightly at this close range by the suit's sound-canceling feature.
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We think her true persona would have dulled some of Carrie's neuroses and made her a little more of a force to be reckoned with.
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Animals still lack rights, but the bright line separating them from people has been dulled by sentience laws and rulings in India, Argentina and Colombia.
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I only get them for two months, but I would rather wait that long then have my palate dulled by second-rate fruits and vegetables.
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Bianchi's photos of this time had a soft dulled tone, as though they had been dipped in the ocean and laid out in the sun.
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You might catch glimpses here and there, but familiarity breeds the dulled recognition that if you sink the ship, you'll probably go down with it.
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The thing is, any shock this scene might've inspired is dulled by the fact that HBO's programming has drawn from this well before, and often.
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People are so dulled by what they have to put themselves through to get through the day, maybe you do have to mess with them.
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The raw pathos inherent in such moments is now dulled; seen once too often, the situations are not as moving as they ought to be.
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Some of that pain might be dulled on Friday night, when FIFA members and their guests will attend a specially arranged ballet at the Bolshoi.
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I'm glad you asked, because this contestant's shine got dulled by all the other drama (read: the other Luke) that was happening on Hannah's season.
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The President's former personal lawyer has painted a cruel and unseemly picture, shocking even with the nation's senses dulled by years of Trump-induced controversy.
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"When one sense is dulled, the brain can temporarily compensate and allow us to become more sensitive to the stimuli from our other senses," she says.
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You eat so many times a day and knowing that flavours would be dulled for the remainder of her life made it a really depressing time.
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If you are also suddenly feeling dulled down by your once festive living rooms, bedrooms, and kitchens, then it might be time for a winter refresh.
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"When one sense is dulled, the brain can temporarily compensate and allow us to become more sensitive to the stimuli from our other senses," she said.
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But, in search of chromatic purity, Klein realized that even the purest pigments' intensity dulled when combined with a binder such as oil, egg, or acrylic.
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Its teams, Juventus apart, generally have little or no effect in continental competitions; many are over-reliant on aging players, their legs weary and powers dulled.
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Dozens of limousines and tour buses, their polish dulled by a film of ash, sat in a parking lot and warehouse on the outskirts of Napa.
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After being treated for her injuries, she refused painkillers, which would have dulled her senses if she had to compete in the next day's jumping competition.
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That distinctive flavor profile was specifically engineered by Dr. Parekh to appeal to Indian palates, which he observed are dulled by the vast consumption of spices.
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Asian shares crept back from four-month highs on Friday as a dismal survey on Chinese factory activity dulled optimism about the prospects for a Sino-U.
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It is a feast of imagery that could not have been served at a better moment in history, the protracted conflict having dulled Afghanistan to American sensibilities.
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Separatist fervour has dulled since 2012 when at the height of Spain's recession around one million people turned out onto the streets of Barcelona clamouring for independence.
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And either way, it wouldn't change the underlying dynamics of a company that seems to have lost its competitive edge, dulled by the grind of Lenovo's assimilation.
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Such progress, however, is dulled by the fact that while the rest of the world makes small steps, the U.S. and Canada continue to take big strides.
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House prices boomed at double-digit pace at the start of 2017, but eased off through the year as central bank restrictions on lending dulled investor demand.
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It had one cramped bathroom, its dulled chrome fixtures speckled with rust and the tiles coming loose in spots, but even my mother wasn't fretting too much.
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Josephine's narrative wears the sheen of dulled memory, not nostalgic but emotional, blunt by design so that when the ugly truth emerges, it stands in stark relief.
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This has dulled the potential of obscurity as a rallying point for change and leaves society struggling to protect something in dire need of defining and defending.
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The force of that paranoid thrust dulled over the years, but it was still a vital part of the DNA of most historic PSAs—and their humor.
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But it is also a welcome promise: This daring Russian director plans to find some particularly modern anxiety in a work that has become dulled by overexposure.
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It appeared in the middle of a Stephen King renaissance that has yet to wane, and the two-year wait for the new film hasn't dulled fans' eagerness.
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If the opponent keeps his arm high and wide to deal with the left high kick, he is dulled to quick straights through the middle of his guard.
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Yet even with the animal spirits dulled and Washington leading the way into the unknown, there are whole secular industries that are thriving, the "Mad Money" host noted.
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We refuse to face the truth: The innovation industrial complex has ripped at the fabric of our democracy, fomented a caste system, and dulled our sense of empathy.
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Day's only hope was that Hercules Demetriou would come out of this story sounding so greasy that Day's physical response to his proximity would be mercifully dulled forever.
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I can't even lift my blankets off of me, so when I wake in the middle of the night dulled by sleep and pain killers, I can't move.
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In addition to the valid criticism from the LGBTQ community, it's also the most dulled-down and commercialized version of her unique blend of gothic pop with fangs.
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But in "Ashes" (2015), the most accomplished of his most recent video works, Mr. McQueen confirms that his movie years have not dulled his sensitivity or his style.
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One question that remains unanswerable thus far is whether New Hampshire assumes even greater importance than usual because the impact of Iowa is so dulled by the results fiasco.
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With the exception of JPMorgan Chase & Co , revenue fell at the biggest U.S. lenders as lower market volatility weighed on trading and recession fears dulled clients' appetite for borrowing.
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In early 2014, a team of scientists from Oxford University carried out research that provided the first empirical evidence that flavour can be enhanced or dulled purely by sound.
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The mood in financial markets was dulled this week by a diplomatic row between the world's top two economies after Washington passed a bill supporting protesters in Hong Kong.
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Her paintings of Auschwitz, where she was interned for a little more than a year, burn with a rage and shame not dulled by three-quarters of a century.
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Another fun fact: Plane food has higher than normal levels of sodium, as it&aposs used to enhance flavors since our taste buds and senses are dulled at altitude.
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Kahlo's clothes are the prime draw here, though their splendor is dulled when seen in mirror-backed glass vitrines; in places they look like so many dusty Macy's mannequins.
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Had Mr Trump not dulled the word "collusion" through overuse, it might seem to describe the relationship between his campaign and the Russian government: mutual aid coupled with persistent dissembling.
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It said the highly profitable bank's "continued financial success dulled the senses of the institution" and exposed it to non-financial risks, particularly in the areas of compliance and conduct.
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Or it's Inside Out but with Joy as the only emotion — and we all know that without a little Anger, Sadness, Fear and even Disgust, Joy's charms are ultimately dulled.
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Jolie also said that she and then-partner Brad Pitt had "already bought Maddox some things," though she did make sure to note all the daggers Maddox had were dulled.
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Both are shiny developments of the kind slammed in the show's criticism of gentrification, but if anybody noticed, the open bar and trays of triple-pork sliders dulled their outrage.
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Stuck inside again these days, I've been paging through "Hope and Help," rereading the portions I underlined five years ago, when my fingers dulled the ink's crispness with their fervor.
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He struggled to respond effectively, demonstrating how dulled some of his political skills were, while she made subsequent comments that raised questions about just how divergent their positions really were.
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We implore the public not to allow their senses to be dulled and to reject the idea that the torture and killing of children is an inevitable fact of life.
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"These little pretty colored packets pack such a punch of sweetness, and that's how our palates get dulled and immune and less reactive to what sweetness really is," Alpert said.
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Just as food seems less appealing when the sense of smell is dulled, sex doesn't feel as satisfying when our emotions are out of whack or our relationship is suffering.
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The fresh salvo at Turkey dulled Thursday's market optimism, which was due to waning trade worries after the United States and China said they would hold fresh talks later this month.
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Statespace, created by neuroscientists from New York University, lets users play a game within a dulled-down FPS map environment and get measurements on things like accuracy, reaction time, and perception.
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For centuries, generations of breeding in the quest for longer blooms and petals in shades of nearly every hue have dulled the sweetest smells that once perfumed gardens around the world.
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A severed head of an elk, the bar's inspiration, its dark eyes dulled, its fur patchy and antlers obscene, stares down from the end of the narrow hallway to the bathrooms.
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Style without substance is ultimately a dulled weapon; bands like Sarparast, who back up their incisive lyrics with sharpened riffs, Juliet's vocals, and impeccably malevolent atmosphere, are how social rebellions start.
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Weaker revenue, rising costs and tighter regulations have dulled returns in the Asia equities business, forcing some global banks to shut or trim operations in the region in the recent past.
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Lacking a slushie machine in the MUNCHIES Kitchen, Fields improvises with a blender, some ice, and a splash of simple syrup to brighten up the flavors dulled by the cold temperatures.
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Lululemon's international success made it an investor darling, but a string of quality and supply chain problems, boardroom upheaval, and stiff competition in recent years have dulled some of its appeal.
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It is also investing in its online services to adapt to the surge in e-commerce and home delivery which has dulled the appeal of its out-of-town warehouse stores.
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That sent the crowd of 24,650 into delirium, but their glee was dulled as the United States failed to crack the Mexican defense again while Márquez took his chance with aplomb.
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Oakland RaidersOne thing to know: Patrick Mahomes' MVP follow-up has been dulled by injury and the rise of Lamar Jackson, but can he make a late push down the stretch?
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The rancor that had consumed the Capitol, just across the street, ahead of his confirmation vote last week had dulled to a polite hush as spectators gathered in the courtroom midmorning.
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My body felt like a burden, and the food I ate didn't seem to energize me or push me on: It dulled my edges, and it left me foggy, soft, and slow.
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There is also an alarming irony in the fact that the internet, which has made mobilizing and voicing support at the click of a mouse instantaneous, may have also dulled its effectiveness.
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The design to Euro 2016, with its bloated format allowing 24 nations to start and only eight to go home after the first round of games, has dulled almost everyone and everything.
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The sheen has also dulled on a 30-year gas deal estimated to be worth $400 billion when it was signed during a visit by Mr. Putin to China in May 2014.
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Though their jokes tackled the expected timely topics — sexual harassment, Roseanne, representation — they were delivered with an offhand lightness that robbed them of their deserved weight, and thus dulled their comedic impact.
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Why it's not normal: Though Trump's previous criticism of the intelligence community may have dulled the impact somewhat, the direct criticism of the FBI by a sitting president is still highly abnormal.
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But from Trump, such a horror wasn't even surprising, and it competed for attention with so many other outrages that it was dulled, the way so much of his unconscionable behavior is.
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That somewhat dulled hopes of a de-escalation in their tariff war that has hit hundreds of billions of dollars in goods, roiling financial markets, uprooting supply chains and slowing global growth.
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The man in the white house sits, naked and obscene, a pustule of ego, in the harsh light, a man whose grasp exceeded his understanding, because his understanding was dulled by indulgence.
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Their latest, "Look Alive," is their first release in four years, but their enthusiasm hasn't dulled — at least if the album's bright, polished, synth-driven indie-pop track list is any indication.
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On many items, he'll need to act soon, though, rather than waiting until his final days in office -- after the election, once the hyper-political noise has dulled -- to flex his executive muscles.
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Threatening to cut off this aid would confront the PA with greater incentive to change than it faces currently, but that incentive could be dulled if neighboring countries simply backfill the PA's budget.
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While there's not much to Neneh Cherry's part on "Kids With Guns," and it's almost inaudible thanks to Danger Mouse's dulled production, Cherry still manages to do a lot with very little here.
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I regret to say I may not be my usual, incredibly sharp self in this week's newsletter, as I am dealing with a back injury and the medication may have dulled my wits.
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The majority of businesses in town are located around a large lake and some of the buildings look like dulled-down, more practical versions of ones you might see in Disney's Magic Kingdom.
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Wall Street retreated from record levels on Tuesday as the report dulled hopes of a de-escalation in their tariff war that has roiled financial markets, uprooted supply chains and hit global growth.
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Hylyx goes into the procedure room anyway, with a finger magnet that has been failing, which means the uncanny sensation of electromagnetic fields — "it's like air has a texture," someone says — has dulled.
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There is something thrilling, not dulled, in the very honesty of the film, and in the vigor with which feelings, expressed at any age, can strike us like a slap in the face.
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But now the lustre on Beijing's trade and investment story has dulled amid rising U.S. tariffs, higher interest rates and capital flight from emerging markets, all of which threaten to erode global growth.
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"Snout" compares The Crusades—where people were going overseas in the name of Christianity and murdering people—to the present day, dulled, bummed-out masses who are being sucked in by the flag.
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That clean rush of excitement he felt as a cub after taking down his first boar is a faint and distant memory, dulled from repeated exposure, a copy of a copy of a copy.
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There's the mechanical way she pours unlimited vodka into unlimited Evian water bottles, as if she has long figured out a boozily dulled world is the only one in which the journalist can live.
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It's Sunday night, senses are dulled, fatigue is debilitating, but should you study the grassy sprawl, it's wall-to-wall columns of the faithful rapping album cuts from before the Abu Ghraib scandal broke.
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A new generation has discovered the warmth and depth of an LP's music (even with the medium's faults, like hisses and scratches) compared to the dulled highs and lows of a typical digital recording.
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The charge against the European Parliament's second seat—the absurdity of dislodging MEPs and their entourages from Brussels to Strasbourg once a month, at an annual cost of €114m—is not dulled by familiarity.
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Since then, the new mines, oil wells and fields of grain carpeting the planet to meet that demand have started to produce goods just when the appetite for them has dulled, pushing down prices.
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But even before Ali's jaw began to bloat, the unbeaten Frazier had dulled the vaunted weapons of his revival in recording his 26th victory, although he failed in his quest for his 23th knockout.
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They account for the collective cost of living in a democracy led by a man who has made public life feel loud and hateful, a place where everyone's attention has been frayed and dulled.
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Although there was no lack of events, there was "a sense of dulled direction and motivation" in the markets, Vishnu Varathan, head of economics and strategy at Mizuho Bank, said in a morning note.
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The fact that many clubs are wholly or partly state-owned, meanwhile, has left teams at the mercy of broader economic forces, with budgets cut and ambitions dulled for political, rather than sporting, reasons.
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Anbang's international luster had already dulled after it withdrew an application last year to buy an Iowa insurer, Fidelity & Guaranty Life, and also shelved a $14 billion bid to buy Starwood Hotels and Resorts.
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The news dulled the mood after three straight days of record highs for the U.S. stock indexes, spurred by cooling trade tensions between the world's top two economies and upbeat economic data from China.
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The goal is to inject the disruptive power of not-normal back into the discussion of difference at a time when the edge of mainstream gayness has been dulled by the quest for assimilation.
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I spent years as a concert photographer and was always on the hunt for a reliable pair of earplugs, but I always had to settle for something that dulled the sound in really broad strokes.
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In fact, the particular tuning of the M250xBTs is great for noisy environments: it puts an extra emphasis on the things that are usually dulled down by the din of a busy city around you.
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A system designed to keep us docile while extracting value from every aspect of our dulled existence is both an extremely rough plot summary of the 1999 film The Matrix and a description of Facebook.
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His luster was dulled, however, by a Senate investigation of the "Keating Five" - five senators suspected of doing favors for campaign contributor Charles Keating Jr. The panel eventually found Glenn did nothing improper or illegal.
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Director David Mackenzie's heist film is a hybrid Western and Southern gothic tale of an economically destitute rural Texas, ravaged by corporate greed and dulled by the fading hopes of struggling communities across the heartland.
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Chinese data showing factory activity in the world's top metals consumer shrank for a 14th consecutive month has muddied the outlook for metals demand and dulled hopes of economic revival after a credit-fuelled rally.
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During an appearance at a boxing medical symposium in Mexico City last week, Ali explored the possibility of undergoing brain surgery there to alleviate the affliction that has dulled one of the world's quickest minds.
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A trade showdown between the U.S. and China is widely expected to be detrimental to global economic growth, while elevated tensions over the standoff between the world's biggest economies has also dulled the dollar's appeal.
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Another night I sought out some haemuljjim, a hodgepodge of local shellfish braised with a pile of bean sprouts and red pepper sauce, to test whether my spice tolerance had dulled after moving to Europe.
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A slide in short-dated German bond yields to a record low -0.866 percent dulled the euro's allure, while the dollar gained ground in line with a tentative move back up in U.S. bond yields.
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The wireless speaker company—whose gloss has dulled as Amazon, Google, and soon Apple, have released increasingly decent "smart" speakers over the last couple of years—is finally releasing a speaker with built-in voice commands.
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Although his dentist warned him that the orthodontic elastics might become discolored with certain foods, Salvat still indulged in a rich chocolate dessert only to wake up the next morning to find his smile somewhat dulled.
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Read More: Space Vegetables are the Best Hope for Quality Martian Cuisine "In microgravity, your taste sensation is dulled so astronauts like to have things a little bit spicier, sharper," one of the researchers told me.
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Our kids are doing great, and while our partnership will never be what it was, my ex and I have a shared purpose, one that seems to have dulled any lingering rage or feelings of betrayal.
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It's as if the writers and producers recognized that the first season's drama — the Madoff-like scandal that stole all of Diane's money — dulled Baranski's charismatic snap and crackle by centering that scandal on other characters.
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Three short months later, Macron's shine has dulled, his domestic popularity has plummeted, and critics are beginning to argue that the inexperience and inclinations of France's new leader may be a bigger liability than they initially thought.
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I just wish some of the options — like the minor variations of Stefan going to jail and Bandersnatch being either mediocre or unreleased — hadn't felt so repetitive, because it dulled the fun of hunting down different paths.
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Investor appetite for risk has been dulled this week by factors including nerves ahead of an upcoming meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping and a suspected suicide bombing in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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The damage was caused when cold temperatures and gusting winds created sharp ice crystals in the snow, which quickly dulled ski edges and burned out bases, giving skis used in training runs and competitions a short lifespan.
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" He went on, "I made the mistake of including Imprints which not only dulled my overall point of trying to uplift artist...But also singled out artist-owned ventures that have only worked to progress the culture.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese gaming company Nintendo Co Ltd on Tuesday reported a 10% decline in quarterly profit, far wide of market expectations, as a rise in costs dulled stronger sales of its hybrid home-portable Switch console.
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Investors fears of rising inflation and faster interest rate hikes, which had spurred a move from stocks to bonds, have been dulled by optimism over encouraging economic data and corporate reports, while volatility has also remained subdued.
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On the other hand, if erasing people's memories of a trip with midazolam does lead to a dulled effect on their depression symptoms, it indicates that the memory and reflection of the event is an important component.
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Go see the manager, where a never-ending supply of coke and a rolled tenner would await you in his office, the thud of music dulled whilst you snort a line off of the framed hygiene certificate.
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Underwater, every sense is altered — visuals become magnified or dulled, acoustics shift with pressure and a sense of touch is amplified by both the odd weightlessness and the resistance of surrounding water, not to mention the temperature.
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Yet in interviews with almost 20 Democratic lawmakers on the committees with jurisdiction over Trump's Ukraine dealings, the predominant view is that "impeachment fatigue" has dulled the appetite for Bolton's participation, in the words of one lawmaker.
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It feels like, from here on out, it will be harder to remember his voice, his laugh, his scent—his presence will continue to fade from a bright image to one dulled by the passing of time.
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But even those who aren't could be motivated to vote out of fear of what Democratic Party governance is likely to entail — fear that would be dulled by nominating a boring person who takes few controversial positions.
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Although parties seeking independence won local elections in September, separatist fervor in the wealthy region has dulled since 2012 when, at the height of Spain's recession, rallies drew about a million people onto the streets of Barcelona.
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Ms. Mitchell and Joseph Alford, the movement director, bring to the 100 minutes (no intermission) the eerie sense of an existence lived both in rewind and replay whereby sensation is dulled one minute and searingly acute the next.
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The zone attracted attention from overseas businesses and was hailed as one of China's boldest reforms in decades when it was first launched, although a lack of specific policy details since then has dulled some of that enthusiasm.
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That everyone is a critic means that we are each capable of thinking against our own prejudices, of balancing skepticism with open-mindedness, of sharpening our dulled and glutted senses and battling the intellectual inertia that surrounds us.
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Also, most of the twentysomething men I slept with, shall we say, kept it quick — except the unfortunate case of one who was so dulled from antidepressants that he couldn't come, even though he'd last until I did.
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The buzz about the finished product dulled the fact that the company missed the mark on delivering to actual customers, instead opting to hand out the keys of what appeared to be pre-production models to his employees.
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Austin trio Troller emerged in 2012 with a sound that was something like the aftermath of a shot to the bicep, the slow murky bloom of dulled pain and the compelling blues and blacks of quickly formed bruise.
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The bite of sanctions on elites is also dulled by a Kim initiative to inject a bit of fun into life in the capital (special permission is needed for North Koreans to visit Pyongyang, let alone live there).
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The yield on Chinese 10-year treasury bonds was at 3.167 percent on Friday, according to Refinitiv data, up from a low of 3.08 percent touched in February, as stronger risk appetite dulled the appeal of fixed-income investments.
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He is a national figure whose liberal triumphs, including legalizing same-sex marriage in New York and raising the statewide minimum wage, have dulled under the pall of two federal investigations and widespread distrust on the left at home.
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Over the weekend, the skies cleared just a little, but the patches of blue were dulled like a crappy Instagram filter; meanwhile, several fire fronts to the north merged to become a fire bigger in area than Sydney itself.
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And when a male's feet are artificially dulled after his mate has laid one egg, the female responds to the apparent decline in his condition through a downsizing of her own, making her second egg smaller than the first.
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I managed to go to sleep over the sound of a man screaming for his methadone as I received an IV drip loaded with a potent cocktail of steroids and painkillers and awoke a few hours later, headache only dulled.
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We were just cooking the normal food that we always cooked and when we'd go out for meals, nothing was ever good enough—not because she felt it wasn't good food, but just because her sense of taste was dulled.
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Barao, who fights on a hair trigger with his low kicks and counter punches, found himself missing repeatedly: Dillashaw was able to draw the counters and step inside: And as Barao's reactions dulled, he became a far less dangerous counter fighter.
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The next, he was accused by Mourinho of not defending well enough from his position on the wing; and Hazard appeared dulled by the hectoring he took from the manager, and disillusioned, perhaps, by the fallout from Mourinho's dispute with Carneiro.
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The dollar had lost nearly all of its gains since the U.S. elections last November as investor hopes for a fiscal boost from President Donald Trump were dulled by a scandal over his firing of former FBI director James Comey.
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I traversed the edges of the park, whose lawns dulled to a shadow at my left, a dark so thick it felt like something I could disappear into forever—I suppose that's why they close the parks after 1:00 a.m.
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There's the sound of what might be dulled metal grating against silt, the soft thumps of footsteps on a hollow floor or the hull of a boat, and wood cracking — which feels ominous, as the boat dips into the ocean.
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Investor appetite for risk has been dulled this week by a number of factors, such as caution ahead of the upcoming meeting between U.S. President Donald trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping and a suspected suicide bombing in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Beckinsale is forty-two, and it's twenty years since she played Emma Woodhouse on TV, but her somewhat steely glamour has not dulled, and that gleam of agelessness merely adds to our suspicion that Lady Susan is a weapon to watch.
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Of course, it's helpful if you know a lot about computer programming and can use that to help find these patterns, as Matt Ginsberg does, but the overall impressiveness of today's theme is not dulled by whether he had mechanical help.
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My head would feel like it was full of bees, and the words that came out of my mouth would seem to me slow, dulled by exhaustion - but I always looked and sounded just fine when I watched the footage later on.
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When the drug kept me from sleeping and dulled every part of me, I reduced the dosage—snapping pills in half, running my tongue over the rough, acrid edges, thinking about how the desire to please our parents never really leaves us.
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It is a measure that will stand with Trump's name in history and also revives the reputation of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who saw his aura as a master of the Senate dulled by the failure to pass an Obamacare repeal bill.
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Negan was intended to oppress the story and dispirit viewers, but the writers and Jeffrey Dean Morgan made it more wearying than it needed to be, the flashes of real charm and menace dulled by repetitive action and all those exclamations and backbends.
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She wouldn't hear of installing a shower, and yet even Gillian didn't find it easy to climb in and out of the deep tub, its enamel dulled to gray by the innumerable baths the family had run in it over the years.
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Headlines surrounding the prolonged trade spat have dictated stock market moves this year, with the STOXX 600 index inching towards a record high on hopes the two sides would resolve their dispute, which has so far dulled sentiment and dented global growth.
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The return prompted some positive financials for the company, and sales did ultimately take off after the reboot, but the Karma's appeal has been dulled by one-time partner DJI, which introduced its own portable drones, the Mavik Pro and Spark to the market.
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Granted, the game is incredibly fresh in my head, and thus the post-preview glow hasn't dulled any, but if you asked me today which of those three (very different, all eagerly anticipated) games I'd like to play more of, right now, it's Arkane's adventure.
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Apparently a hellish experience on a tropical beach and a run-in with a grizzly hasn't dulled Leonard DiCaprio's love for the natural world, because he's just completed work on a documentary about the dangers of climate change called Before the Flood, Hollywood Reporter reports.
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The success with which policymakers prevented the 2008 financial crisis from spiralling into a global depression added to the complacency and dulled the hunger for more radical reform—even though the mishandling of the crisis in Europe led to many of that continent's current political problems.
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Photo: Raul Marrero (Gizmodo)Google's attempt at a splashy Pixel 222 launch event today may have been dulled by some of the most expansive product leaks in recent memory, but luckily the company had a bit more to talk about than a couple of iterative smartphone updates.
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And when they do affect the characters, those choices are often dulled, either because the characters weren't complex to begin with — like Teddy and Lee choosing to die, for instance — or because we know they'll be back, a la Maeve, Emily, Dolores, Bernard, and now apparently William.
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Afterward, adequate quantities of Indian food and Strongbow cider dulled the trauma of those moments, but that trip marked the beginning of years of similar episodes (including, last week, when I almost fainted on the subway while listening to a podcast host describe a toenail injury).
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Any sense of excitement was dulled by the late hour and the long journey, and the kids were nodding off, but as we rode through empty downtown streets in the dark, the familiar smell of eucalyptus and the soft foggy Pacific air yanked me back 50 years.
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Though some of the American stories deliver flashes of the Jhabvala economy—New York captured in snatches of "street smells, petrol fumes, leaking gas pipes, newly poured tar, pretzels, mangoes from Mexico, Chinese noodles, overblown flowers"—her satirical edge, so keen in the Indian fiction, is dulled.
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But injuries have dulled the appeal of third baseman Josh Donaldson and starter Matt Harvey, and two aces with opt-out clauses, Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers and David Price of the Boston Red Sox, stayed off the market (Kershaw negotiated a one-year extension).
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During one string chorale in the first movement, Ms. Uchida dulled the tone of her accompanying chords until they sounded like small bells; in a passage for strings alone, the three upper voices blended into a single pale haze against which Mr. Stumpf's vibrant cello radiated generosity and warmth.
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"He balked at showing work in Miami that is not at its highest level of reflectivity, so every mirror piece has to be just as reflective as it was in 1962," she said, explaining that Mr. Le Parc insists on replacing any materials that have dulled with time.
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" (Jacobs still keeps a Manhattan residence.) The word came up so much that I began to feel I was listening to a version of what the critic V.S. Pritchett once wrote of the personal happiness Edith Wharton found after marriage: "That happiness, it now seems, dulled her talent.
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Stewart's voice is lower than Seberg's, her smile more hesitant, her chin more determined, and the gleam in her eyes a touch more dulled with knowingness, as if the innocence to which Seberg somehow clung were no longer available; Stewart, though, is not in the business of impersonation.
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The shock of this information has been somewhat dulled by the fact that Caporella is far from the first CEO to write and publish apparently unedited screeds on behalf of his company, credit his product with everything short of saving the world, or aspire to lead a cult.
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Composed outward from a hypnotizing loop that alternately sounds like dulled synthetic bells and oddly EQ'd hand drums (or both at once), Nik Dawson sets things moving at an obstinately plodding pace, eventually orbiting the central motif with a nasty pair of clacking and oscillating buzzes in the higher frequency range.
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I looked away from him back to the stage, feeling a heat in my gut that I recognized as shame, but it wasn't sharp yet, it was distant or dulled, and though I knew in the next days I would be miserable with it I turned away from it now.
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Opening with PC Music's signature saccharine synths—a mainstay over the course of the track—with a distinctly 90's Euro-style club beat pulsating throughout, it seems that although the PC Music phenomenon has dulled, Harle's production style has just become even more outrageous (and that's definitely a good thing).
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Reinforced windows dulled the noise from outside — and they faced away from the Manhattan Bridge — but voices carried inside the unit, apparently through a ventilation duct between the bedroom and living room, causing distraction when they had phone calls at the same time, even if they were in different rooms.
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Though the long lines of hungry tourists and comically overstuffed sandwiches have perhaps dulled the deli's sheen to today's population of New Yorkers, it has served as a rare surviving relic of the past in a city that is obsessed with the new and where restaurant closings are consistently on the rise.
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Matilda is a thrilling story of intelligence and ingenuity triumphing over TV-dulled ignorance, a love song to classic novels, and an utterly satisfying tale of a child serving a bit of justice to grown-ups for the indignities both small and large that are part and parcel of being a kid.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)We've already seen the arrival of flexible phones like the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X, and while the excitement around these gadgets may have been dulled somewhat by concerns about durability, that isn't stopping Lenovo from taking bendy screen tech and applying it to something bigger.
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She still brings a brainy guest list and a brisk, skeptical British sensibility to her time slot, but whatever edge Katherine might once have possessed has been dulled — by success, by fatigue, by the illness of her husband (John Lithgow), by too long a soak in the lukewarm waters of the mainstream.
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Still, after all this time, after all he has done, long after his brilliance should have become commonplace, after our expectations should have been adjusted and our capacity for surprise dulled, Lionel Messi can still draw the breath and dazzle the eyes and bring a crowd of nearly 100,000 to its feet.
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Barr and the White House fill the vacuum Aggressive interventions by Barr and the White House created an unstoppable narrative of exoneration that dulled the political impact of an investigation that -- if it did not find prosecutable crimes -- sketched a devastating picture of lies, apparent abuses of power and duplicity in the West Wing.
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Here, one can see how the material comforts and modest glamor of Goulash Communism would have dulled the urgency of moral dilemmas related to abstract notions of freedom — a condition quite similar to the everyday experience in the West at the same time, as any number of Pop artists worked hard to point out.
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Contributing Opinion Writer LONDON — In the final season of "Game of Thrones," a once-powerful and arrogant queen stands almost alone at the top of her castle, abandoned by the multitudes who once feared and followed her, her strategies in ruins, watching with dulled horror as her enemy swoops closer, burning her city down.
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But, when we allow this picture of academia to be painted — unrelentingly, and unforgivingly liberal, a place where conservatives must lurk in the shadows for fear of persecution — we allow the sharp edges of our social critiques to be dulled, our social commentary made more palatable, in order to prove this assumption of a liberal bias incorrect.
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But, as is so often the case with this polymath of anarcho-punk, the conversation strayed to topics as diverse as Trump being the obvious organic antithesis to the Obama presidency, Japanther's links to the resurgent Black Panther movement, how diet has dulled our urge to protest, and that time he met John Lennon on Ready Steady Go!
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In the famous scene near the beginning of "Saving Private Ryan" (1998), set at Omaha Beach on D Day, the bow ramp of the lead landing craft falls open and the soldiers in front immediately get shot; the rest struggle to get onto the beach, their vision blurred by fear, their hearing dulled by exploding shells.
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But even the homeliest and world-weariest of us give off a shine, however dulled or flecked by experience, and Johnny, manic and stubborn in his devotion, has reached the dire stage in life—fortysomething, divorced with kids, one tour in prison—when this truth becomes a strategy: just latch on, find the light, and make connection happen.
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Witnessing the cabaret law conversation pop up and disappear with the frequency of a McRib over the last couple of decades, my elation is a bit dulled by the déjà vu that brings me back to Bloomberg's opposition to the law and subsequent inability to kill it, and the whimper that was implicit in his lack of practical solutions for its replacement.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's approval ratings are rising, driven by a roaring economy that has dulled the effects of a White House swarmed by controversies.
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