Still, this would grow dull quickly if that were all there was to it.
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And one of the most compelling leagues around could well grow dull for a few years.
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Alas, despite appealing actors, handsome drawing rooms and impressive estates, "the story's lone joke and its grinding literalness grow dull," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
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But as one zombie brain after another is pulverized, and as Elizabeth and her crew slip through another close call, the story's lone joke and its grinding literalness grow dull.
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Children, having collected pretty stones from the wetness in the past only to see them grow dull on a shelf, thought that all the stones, everywhere, had died, even the ones they'd left behind.
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"If other eyes grow dull and other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and the warmth of life remains in us."
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The Celtics' grow dull when he sits, and even though—as owner of the team's highest usage percentage—he's contributed to their frequent stagnation by morphing some of the free-throws and threes they enjoyed a year ago into pull ups from the mid-range, Irving's nightly magic act is powerful enough to assuage even the most genuine concern that they own the NBA's worst offense in their last 15 games. 11.
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As the wheel cuts, it periodically releases individual grains of abrasive, typically because they grow dull and the increased drag pulls them out of the bond. Fresh grains are exposed in this wear process, which begin the next cycle. The rate of wear in this process is usually very predictable for a given application, and is necessary for good performance.
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Smith writes a children's story about an old man in Victorian England who invents a police box larger on the inside and capable of travel through time and space. Lonely, the man visits the planet Gallifrey, where he finds a primitive tribe. He tells the Gallifreyans about science and the arts, teaches them to travel time and space, and advises them on how to be as civilised and law-abiding as England. When they grow dull and officious, he invents a way for them to begin new lives upon death, and gives them second hearts in hopes of making them more joyful.
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Ejaculatory prayer is the use of very brief exclamations. Saint Augustine remarked that the Egyptian Christians who withdrew to a solitary life "are said to say frequent prayers, but very brief ones that are tossed off as in a rush, so that a vigilant and keen intention, which is very necessary for one who prays, may not fade away and grow dull over longer periods".Augustine, Letter 130, To Proba, paragraph 20 Examples of such prayers are given in the old Raccolta under the numbers 19, 20, 38, 57, 59, 63, 77, 82, 83, 133, 154, 166, 181.The Raccolta: Index of prayers and pious works contained in this collection They are also known as aspirations, invocations or exclamations and include the Jesus Prayer.
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Next, "Smedly" (Jonathan Smedley, a religious opportunist who criticised Jonathan Swift for gain) dives in and vanishes. Others attempt the task, but none succeed like Leonard Welsted (who had satirised Pope, Gay, and Arbuthnot's play Three Hours after Marriage in 1717), for he goes in swinging his arms like a windmill (to splash all with mud): "No crab more active in the dirty dance,/ Downward to climb, and backward to advance" (II 298–299). He wins the Journals, but Smedly reappears, saying that he had gone all the way down to Hades, where he had seen that a branch of Styx flows into the Thames, so that all who drink city water grow dull and forgetful from Lethe. Smedly becomes Dulness's high priest, and the company move to Ludgate.
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