There have been lulls around this time in recent years.
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There are no lulls or breaks in the replay booth.
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Journalism is like that, lulls and accelerations, adrenaline and troubled questioning.
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On the negative side, we've had more lulls than we've had spurts.
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But, SMILF lulls Bridgette, and therefore viewers, into a sense of security.
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In the lulls, new jokes will be written for a later taping.
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It lulls you with luscious visual beauty, but its sentiments are suffocating.
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The answer needs to involve hard work during the lulls between campaigns.
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It's my favorite show to fall asleep to and lulls me to sleep.
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Composing a novel is like waiting for a wave of inspiration between lulls.
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Given this difference, one source could — in theory — compensate for the other's lulls.
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You'll still get the post-dinner lulls, but that's what couches are for.
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And Under the Skin has a few unfortunate lulls in terms of pacing.
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Apple has recovered from lulls in China in the past, and could again.
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Like for many young players, the lulls between the flashes were her issue.
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It lulls us into a sense of unguarded security that it never delivers.
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During the lulls between games, he sat by himself, brooding into his iPad.
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Surrender as the sound lulls you into a state of relaxation and peace.
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That defensive intensity buoyed St. John's through some offensive lulls of its own.
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As Constance Grady writes persuasively at Vox, celebrity lulls us into trusting strangers.
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The fighting grew into a rolling battle, with lulls followed by fresh clashes.
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He describes the experience as "all-encompassing," but even internships at Microsoft have lulls.
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Often the soothing act of brushing a sleeping feline lulls Terry into sleep too.
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Could see some lulls in the rain during the day, but expect more overnight.
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They confound foreign fans by sending up club chants during lulls in the action.
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Dr. Mendelsohn also has a to-do list for employees to use during lulls.
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He talks in bursts of inspiration, then mumbles through lulls, and frequently changes topics.
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Madeline smartly weaponizes a folksy demeanor that lulls Maia into a sense of safety.
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Chris Morocco trying to make Snoop Dogg's Lobster Thermadore lulls me to sleep. Goodnight!
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The motion lulls us, we forget the bruise, the wound, the doom, the threat.
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"In the past, empty lulls during the day were a natural phenomenon," she went on.
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During lulls during parliament, local journalists often try to interview foreign members of the media.
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It lulls you into a dreamy, pleasant stupor as your eyes adjust to the light.
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On a sunny day of long lulls and inconsistent waves, both men reached the quarterfinals.
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However, during ovulation, the immune system lulls, raising the risk of an infection or disease.
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Having thoughts and questions ready also ensures that there won't be lulls in the conversation.
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She says instrumentals without lyrics does the trick in helping her to power through cognitive lulls.
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They've weathered cheating scandals, meddling from Bailey's protective family, squabbles with Bailey's pals and sexual lulls.
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People with Crohn's often experience flare-ups of the disease, with lulls of symptom-free days.
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Some people find that "pink noise" — not white noise — is what really lulls them to sleep.
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Sometimes life lulls us back into complacency and we're forced to learn a powerful lesson twice.
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For its first six issues, Invincible lulls you into a comfortable space with the Grayson family.
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But the energy in the room didn't stay as lively throughout and there were some lulls.
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Crucially, the ubiquity of English lulls us Anglophones into thinking that it's O.K. to be monolingual.
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Crucially, the ubiquity of English lulls us Anglophones into thinking that it's O.K. to be monolingual.
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The film also shows the Marines, none formally identified, during lulls, goofing off and getting high.
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Attending birth and death is also intensely emotional work, with moments of extreme feeling punctuated by lulls.
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Maybe she lulls herself to sleep with the ambient noise of rattling chainlink fences and weeping kids?
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When there were lulls in the fighting, Ismail would head out into the street, dodging sniper fire.
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During lulls in the action, the hum of the stadium's electrical infrastructure was audible along the concourse.
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Each sister gets story time, but only Ollie's consistently holds you, including during the tale's quotidian lulls.
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As human beings, our instinctive optimism lulls us into believing the Pittsburgh shooting was an isolated incident.
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You'll go through lulls in your career and your personal life and it will all build your character.
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But the accidents have raised questions about whether the feature lulls drivers into a false sense of security.
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This is the ultimate effect of the menacing midcentury aesthetic; first it lulls you, then it traps you.
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"It's getting ridiculous at this point," Irving said, using an expletive to describe the lulls the fouls created.
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Overcoming some of the dark, wayward thoughts that can rush to fill the lulls has also proved difficult.
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"It lulls you into believing that this market just can't possibly be hammered," the "Mad Money" host said.
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"It lulls you into believing that this market just can't possibly be hammered," the "Mad Money " host said.
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Kibbey described "moments of intensity, followed by some lulls" as he flew in and out of the storm.
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Handwriting your thoughts and questions strengthens your memory while also ensuring that there won't be lulls in the conversation.
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And what lulls your roommate into a peaceful slumber might leave you staring at the ceiling, anxiously counting sheep.
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Most eruptions had quiet periods of less than 30 minutes, and some had lulls lasting only a few minutes.
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We mean this in the best possible way: Lincoln wants to give you a luxury sedan that lulls you.
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Maybe it's the monotony of the attack that lulls the defense to sleep, or the decelerating genius of Harden.
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But his tenure has also been marked by lulls and calls for change from the always skittish USMNT fanbase.
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Lows: There are some slower chunks along the way but creative lulls are part of any worthy TV ride.
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Tang's mother believed in the theory that conversation lulls occurred at either 20 to or 20 past the hour.
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The atmosphere resembled that of a European soccer match or a Japanese baseball game, with no lulls in energy.
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Center Jason Kelce and especially right tackle Lane Johnson go through lulls now and then, between stretches of dominance.
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Now 16, her foster son lulls himself to sleep by pounding his head against his pillow for several minutes.
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Then a door slams, and he hears footsteps on the stairs, at first distant, formless, with lulls between floors.
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The danger of partial automation comes from the fact that it lulls people into a false sense of security.
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But these lulls and their attendant security are deceptive, because it's not really stray zombies you have defend yourself from.
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The lulls in action were so obvious in this fight that Jimmy Smith would call them out as they happened.
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Keep moving, your body tells you, as the rhythm of racecars lulls you and stirs a painful longing for sleep.
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The BBC programming puts me right to sleep, and if I wake up, I listen until it lulls me back.
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There have been lulls in the fighting before, but time and again the war continues to ravage the most vulnerable.
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The sound of the waves lulls you to sleep as you think: this is the life, I may never leave.
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Yet despite a few brief lulls, WrestleMania's popularity never truly waned; now it's arguably bigger and more profitable than ever.
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He doesn't think we're infinitely content at all–he thinks the internet lulls us into a false sense of security!
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LONDON — The main route to Europe is experiencing one of its longest lulls since the migration crisis began in 2014.
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Turkey, Russia and Iran have had a series of attempted ceasefire deals but fighting has rumbled on, albeit with lulls.
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Every so often Sandler gets to expand the character's emotional register, in lulls and moments of tenderness and real feeling.
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"I'm your sherpa through the lulls," Lennon, who occasionally appeared on the screen perched in a balcony, said early on.
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Campbell drags Elle back "home" by the end of the episode, and she lulls him into a false sense of security.
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Since tying the knot in season 3 (January 2011), the have weathered cheating scandals, squabbles with Bailey's pals and sexual lulls.
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Since tying the knot in January 2011, Bailey and Thomas have weathered cheating scandals, squabbles with Bailey's pals and sexual lulls.
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Other lulls are spent putting together a Wiki page and compiling "snippets," which are essentially snapshots of the most interesting questions.
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You should also work on your most important tasks when you're most productive and save less essential duties during productivity lulls.
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Crafted with the bon vivants behind Chambord raspberry liqueur, these 12 quirky icebreakers are all but guaranteed to banish conversational lulls.
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Tens of thousands of civilians have streamed out of Douma on foot during lulls in the bombardment of the past week.
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During lulls in the fighting, the Marines would shelter in abandoned houses, eat their combat rations, even shave in broken mirrors.
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Every time there was a lull in the fighting—and war is mostly lulls—the cigarettes and the phones came out.
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Agrikol lulls you into thinking that it may as well be summer, and you don't have a care in the world.
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The nation is recasting itself as a glamour and eco-tourism destination, but its African-inflected culture is what lulls you.
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Enter the serve clock, the latest attempt to enforce the time limits designed to reduce between-point lulls and keep viewers engaged.
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C. places his hand against my abdomen, and the warmth of it feels like a heating pad and lulls me to sleep.
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Like an epic poem, the quartet captivates and lulls the listener — less grand narrative and more a carefully-sorted collection of episodes.
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Any momentary lapses in concentration, any lulls in focus after so many carefree wins — Curry's coaches are there to nudge him along.
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For newbies, the show has fewer lulls in the writing that you'd expect to get from a show that ran this long.
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I know too many people who are so goal-focused that they struggle to enjoy the lulls in between these peaks and troughs.
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My second thought when we sat down was that there would be no lulls in this interview: Elvis has a lot to say.
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Throughout the investigation, they didn't hit the typical lulls investigative reporters face — the dead ends or the weekslong digs without any big breakthroughs.
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The action — Ulysses' struggle to break free of Calypso's hold, his return to Ithaca — comes in fits and starts, with unfortunate lulls throughout.
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We just have to play better from the start of the game and we can't have lulls like that and get down 20.
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Low demand lulls during spring and tight winters triggering a wave of Chinese buying will likely result in "greater price volatility," she added.
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Tinder is one of the most popular dating apps out there, but it goes through its periods of lulls and highs throughout the day.
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China has long been suspected of massaging data to smooth its growth trend, under-reporting GDP when overheated and over-reporting it during lulls.
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As he put it in his autobiography, "the bright prize of bringing back the bacon of new knowledge lulls any conscience that needs lulling".
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He fought alongside J.D. Salinger, who was writing what became "The Catcher in the Rye" during lulls in combat and became a lifelong friend.
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But over the last 15 years, Iraq's political leaders have repeatedly squandered such lulls, and each low tends to be followed by a dramatic spike.
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So lay your weary head down as the sweet voice of the Alias actress lulls you into slumber in the most poetic f*cking way.
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In the lulls, ISIS militants went from house to house looking to round up civilians to act as human shields in the center of Falluja.
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Second, North Korea expert Sung-Yoon Lee from Tufts University's Fletcher School points out that there have been lengthy lulls in Pyongyang's weapons testing before.
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" Her research is "vigorous but useless," she writes, though watching grebes she sees that most of us avoid lulls by filling them with "recognizable busyness.
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Alarm, grief and determination also shape the story, its relative lulls (with family and friends) followed by organizing and spasms of violence and so on.
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There were no lulls or awkward pauses; the things we wanted to say turned up without announcement, and then we broke off into other topics altogether.
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However, the Rockets couldn't hold onto the ball, and even when they did get close, they fell into lulls that let Milwaukee create too much separation.
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Now, the challenge will be to keep up the momentum through the season's lulls, which typically occur after Black Friday weekend and before the final push.
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The couple's ups and downs have been chronicled on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, with the relationship being challenged after rumors of infedlity and sexual lulls.
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It's always important to have a few "well actually" corrections in your back pocket, both to fill lulls in the conversation and to assert social dominance.
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"We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency," Ryan said in 2012.
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The crowd of 38,104 was evenly split, and the two groups of fans spent the evening alternating full-throated roars, robbing the environment of any lulls.
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As the South Bend, Indiana, mayor spoke on Friday night, hundreds of Buttigieg's supporters sporting yellow shirts emblazoned with "PETE" roared during lulls in the speech.
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With lulls like that, television cameras often find other "action" to fill time: like then-Red Sox Manager Alex Cora scratching his neck in the dugout.
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In the lulls between high-octane fight scenes, Nieh uses the gaps in Victor's fluency to lend realism to the experience of straddling these two worlds.
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It was during one of those lulls, as she straightened up, with no crowd waiting, that I heard her singing "Strange Fruit," almost under her breath.
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The meandering conversation was punctuated by lulls, as the phone was hidden or passed around, capturing the ambient noise of life inside the maximum-security prison.
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The Disney Bedtime Hotline is the solution you've been waiting for; nothing lulls a child into slumber quite like the soothing speech of Jedi master Yoda.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the war using a network of activists, said civilians were using lulls in the fighting to flee the city.
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His more digestible work 'Birth of a Theorem: a mathematical adventure', is a journey through his unproductive lulls and late-night breakthroughs on the path to discovery.
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The best part about Malcolm's note — which was shared on Reddit on Thursday — is how his super-neat handwriting lulls you into a false sense of security.
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Naturally shy or reticent, Fishman does not carry himself with the cocksure gait of a former athlete, nor is he compelled to fill lulls in a conversation.
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The LNG industry's recent development has been characterised by periods of massive investment and capacity expansions followed by lulls amid fears of low prices caused by oversupply.
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Those concerns were exacerbated by reports that the lulls typical of early December were more pronounced than usual, as shoppers held out for retailers' last-minute deals.
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As the fervor over Pokémon GO lulls, Benzi plans to update the network once more in January 2017—this time, to chart the app's spiral into irrelevancy.
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During lulls in the touring schedule, she would pick up freelance film and media work, which, because of her erratic schedule, never blossomed into a real career.
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As Ndosi's improvisational sounds reached a fever pitch, so did the energy of the dancers, and vice versa; they also found the lulls of quieter moments together.
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There's the easy Acorn Plains starting area, which lulls you into a false sense of security as you smash your way through every level and collectible with ease.
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Whale lulls viewers into a false sense of security by immersing them in upper-crust luxury, then horrifies by dragging them into the depravity of monsters and madmen.
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The other problem with the impression is that it creates a false equivalency and lulls people into believing that each of the presidential candidates is somehow equally ridiculous.
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In the lulls between the revolutions, coups and wars that shaped modern Iraq, he captured family picnics, well-dressed Western tourists standing near ancient ruins and everyday moments.
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Philippe Dehaes, Kasatkina's coach, said that Stephens advantage in experience proved paramount, and that her game did not slip into the lulls for which she was once known.
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It purposefully lulls us into the fantasy, only to pull the rug out from under us when we least expect it, as if to challenge our own complicity.
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A main highway out of Damascus passes nearby, and during lulls in the fighting when it is passable drivers survey a landscape of jagged shells of destroyed buildings.
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And so Morgan lulls the Saviors into a false sense of security, lays the foundation for the Kingdom's resistance, and breaks his no-kill vow all in one go.
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The main mechanism of this "oppression" is education and speech, which lulls the populace into accepting a social system that benefits the affluent at the expense of everyone else.
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Paul Ryan, the House Speaker, has warned of the dangers of turning the safety-net into "a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency".
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It has been a fun way for workers to have another outlet for their creativity — after work, during lunch or in the occasional lulls during the day, of course.
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Lots of sunshine, a handful of very pleasant people, and the opportunity to write bad poetry during lulls made for a not-so-bad way to pay for school.
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It draws you down and lulls you and it gets quieter and quieter, and then you do find faces of Japan which you don't really encounter on the surface.
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"It kind of lulls you into this sense of security because as you're going up, you can see the lights of Portland — you can see Timberland Lodge," Mendoza said.
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After one too many lulls in the conversation, I decided to fall back on my original plan and tell him the only thing about me that he didn't know.
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I read a book I've read a million times on my kindle (The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss), which finally lulls me back to sleep around 1.
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Limited interest in using tankers to store oil, which has historically been a profitable option for shipowners during lulls in shipping volumes, is also curbing overall demand, analysts said.
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Other crew members get brief moments in the spotlight as the man charged with keeping the audience's energy up during lulls in filming reads their names and honors different departments.
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The break in testing matches lulls at similar times in past years and North Korea is almost certainly continuing its push for more capable nuclear weapons, South Korean officials say.
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But two years ago, I found a source of white noise that's extremely calming to my heathen brain, and lulls me to sleep every single time: Bachelor-franchise gossip podcasts.
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Lulls between drink orders turn into brief magic shows, and this one began with Mr. Cremin pulling a deck of cards out of his mouth, a dozen at a time.
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Functioning as a one-man team, he spliced legitimate greatness with extended lulls that are completely foreign to legitimate greatness, intertwining a 48-point classic with a 12-turnover flop.
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Related: Montreal Is Lit, Thanks to Generative Graphic Projections Immersive Installation Lulls Viewers into the Space Between Reality and Dreams Projection Mapping Transforms A Norwegian Church Into a Digital Canvas
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There have been bullpen meltdowns, iffy starting pitching, offensive lulls, shaky defense — and that was before Brett Gardner was thrown out after rounding first for the final out on Saturday.
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The tempo lulls a little bit, giving her time to make a meal of the syllable, and I've got to tell you, what she does with it is truly gourmet.
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Sometimes there would be lulls and rumblings of Vine being dead, but then it would come roaring back with the vibrant LNPP community posting amazing challenges until early in the morning.
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It's just we have an opportunity to be very good and then you see some of the lulls that we have and it's just very difficult on our team right now.
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These are the three lessons they took away from those months of financial shock-and-awe: Most of the time, the stock market lulls you into a comforting sense of security.
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Be Active In environments where I'm primed to be sensitive to partying, lulls in activity can give my brain free time to think about cravings, triggers, or other troubling thought patterns.
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True masters of the horror-comedy balance these contradictory tones so the humor lulls audiences into confronting horrors that would otherwise feel too threatening or too close to home for comfort.
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The mascot also made an impact across the country, as it pushed marketers to realize that similar characters could be much more than a distraction during the lulls of a game.
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There were no romantic subplots, no lulls in the action—just 100 minutes of dewy, glistening men with lumpy muscles who grunted heroically as they waged war on a crab-faced alien.
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The biggest storms tend to start out far from land rather than near it, and during periods of high activity hurricanes are generated farther out in the Atlantic than happens during lulls.
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New Yorkers will say that is because Southern California weather lulls people into complacency, and they hide in their cars rather than interacting face to face, but that's too easy an answer.
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AL-HOL CAMP, Syria (Reuters) - Even when U.S. coalition air strikes and artillery paused for people to evacuate during lulls in fighting, the killing did not stop in Islamic State's final enclave.
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Cloud and ad sales, along with a July event that Amazon created to drum up revenue during the summer shopping lulls, are helping the company overcome high costs in the third quarter.
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This lets your host carve out the right amount of their day for you, and you won't be eyeing the door, trying to figure out how to leave when the conversation lulls.
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Designed for strength and efficiency, the schooner will be able to carry 503,000 pounds of cargo, and its diesel engine should be able to make up for any lulls in the wind.
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In interviews, troops who have transitioned said they tried to time their surgical procedures for scheduled lulls in unit activity, and sometimes put them off because of deployments or demanding work assignments.
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In the lulls between bouts of yammering, however, the director, Johannes Roberts, concentrates on building a solid atmosphere of desperation as a winch accident deposits the women unceremoniously on the ocean floor.
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That said, dairy milk contains such a tiny amount of tryptophan (0.08g/100g of milk) that it's probably not the only reason why people say moon milk lulls them to sleep, she says.
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It reminds me of the scene in Stefan Zweig's memoir in which he visits Auguste Rodin in the studio: the conversation lulls and Rodin resumes sculpting, having forgotten that Zweig is still there.
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There will be lulls for all these rookies, and even McDavid, but I think him and Matthews will be top 10 in scoring this season, and next year the league will be theirs.
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Rivers wins 800th as Clippers drub Lakers LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Clippers started strong and experienced some lulls again before holding off a late charge by the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday.
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During lulls in foot traffic, Ms. Mensah-Schramm, who is well- known in Germany for her dogged campaign to remove neo-Nazi messages from public places, quickly went to work with a scraper.
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And a boom in hydraulic fracturing has recently made natural gas the largest source of electricity in the United States, where it helps fill the gaps during lulls in wind and solar production.
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That accounts for the length, but it also explains the rhythm of the short, which feels as if it has distinct lulls in the action — precisely where the commercial breaks would be placed.
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I'm a fan of the Code format that lulls executives like Musk and Bezos into thinking it's perfectly natural to espouse doomsday scenarios even as they build the rocket ships of their own escape.
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What's worse, it implicitly lulls its reader or listener into a false sense of security, assuring them that they needn't be too critical or discerning, since someone has already done the work for them.
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That is because a stock market that goes up for 15 consecutive months, as the S. & P. 500 did before its streak was broken in February, lulls investors into a false sense of security.
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READ: Coronavirus is now a pandemic in all but name I've noticed people idly swiping around the map during lulls in conversation, in the same way people unconsciously flick through Instagram when they're bored.
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DR WHO, the long-running British science-fiction hero, has a long-standing device to get him out of tricky situations; a piece of "psychic paper" that lulls the viewer into accepting the doctor's credentials.
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But his older character's regrets and war-weary demeanor have such a familiar quality that it's tough to bring much spark to what amount to the lulls between roaring engines and rat-a-tat firefights.
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Once Anomalisa lulls viewers into Michael's stupor, it introduces Lisa (Leigh), a shy customer representative whose warmth immediately draws Michael into her orbit — not to mention the fact that she is not voiced by Noonan.
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The accidents have put new scrutiny on Tesla's Autopilot system and raised questions about whether the technology, which the company describes as only an experimental "beta" test, lulls drivers into a false sense of security.
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With the guile of a great reporter, he lulls them into boasting about their operation on the record, and lures them to a cafe where a photographer is waiting to capture their faces on film.
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It isn't just self-serving rhetoric: It's about rhetoric that lulls voters into feeling that they're doing something to better the nation when in fact nothing is being done to address the real social problem.
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The pace lulls in the afternoon, when out-of-work wanderers toil away on the squat rack, then lurches back to life in the evening, as the masses take out their frustrations on the bench press.
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For all the brawling and sorcery, at the play's heart are the lulls in which Macbeth mulls the witches' prophecies and the crimes they incite; in which he decides what kind of man he will be.
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The speaker may have publicly disavowed his 2012 claim that the safety net was being transformed into a "hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence," but once again, actions spoke louder than words.
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Since forming in 2008, the band has gone through lineup changes and lulls, and several members have explored side projects; still, their chemistry is stronger than ever on "mo'za-ik," their sixth album, released in October.
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" As he glued and whittled, he occasionally studied a reminder pinned to his bulletin board, which he'd written after listening outside the door during screenings of "Beginners": "Stronger, faster paced, more punch, no lulls, more graphic.
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Images of stumbling through dark, disorienting hallways, the constant bass reverberating into the party's "chill zones," and echoes of the inevitable shit-talking that happens during the lulls will ring familiar to any frequent rave-goer.
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It starts in the present day and immediately lulls us into a false sense of realism, as one of the main characters drives along listening to a BBC Radio 4 news bulletin about real-life 2019 issues.
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Syria now faces a situation that could resemble neighboring Lebanon at several stages of its 1975-90 civil war, when it was carved into fiefdoms by competing militias, with long lulls in fighting punctuated by violent cataclysms.
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Writer/director Rian Johnson's entry into the Star Wars canon is rebelliously bold at times and full of rousing surprises, which make up for a few lulls in the lengthy two-and-a-half-hour run time.
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"It's not always going to be easy; there are going to be lulls when you're not playing great," said Manning, who threw for 224 yards while completing 275 of 46 passes for three touchdowns and two interceptions.
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" He sows this feeling of uncertainty into the composition of the book, replacing a traditional arc with "a more unpredictable narrative structure that is full of triumphs, twists, reversals, victories, lulls and low points, big and small.
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The idea that safety-net programmes function as a poverty trap—or, in the words of Paul Ryan, a former House Speaker, as "a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency"—remains.
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Time is not only something we live immersed in, like fish in water, but also an element of our lives with which we constantly struggle, which drives us crazy, opens up possibilities, lulls us and loses us.
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First, there are three brand new songs — one, "Days In the Sun," was cute and bubbly, but the other two — especially a melancholy solo "For Evermore" by Beast — were dragging, resulting in two of the film's few lulls.
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That seems great for Democrats, but in fact it often lulls them into an uncreative passivity: They're with us on the issues, Democrats think, so all we have to do is discuss the issues and we're home free.
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Most changes are at the behest of the player, who acts as the general manager of her team, and generally occur during lulls in the circuit rather than as a player is preparing for a Grand Slam event.
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Most changes are at the behest of the player, who acts as the general manager of her team, and generally occur during lulls in the circuit rather than as a player is preparing for a Grand Slam event.
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While Harden finished with game highs in points (31) and assists (10), Nene (16 points, six rebounds) and Gordon (20 points, seven rebounds, six assists, two steals) carried the Rockets (8-5) through offensive lulls when their sharpshooting vanished.
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Or rather, it should be to accept Kaine's role as the lackluster stage presence, and instead let his voting record – the truly important credentials of any politician – speak for him while he lulls crowd members to sleep in speech.
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The couple, who tied the knot in January 2011 during the show's third season, have had a peaceful split — spending time together and remaining close friends despite weathering marriage struggles, cheating scandals, squabbles with Bailey's pals and sexual lulls.
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Relievers have to work in high-leverage situations, on an elevated stage that puts them at the center of an audience, and rides waves and crests of calm lulls and heavy tension spurred on by thousands of stomping feet.
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And it lulls Congress into feeling a false sense of security; if there are no changes to DACA between September 5 and March 5, there's no problem waiting to pass a bill to protect DACA recipients until March 4.
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The band's previous output was underpinned by a certain nihilistic darkness, and while that's present on this song, there's also an airiness and lightness to the music and the melody that lulls you into a false sense of security.
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Firefighters answered three in one week this winter, and said the spikes and lulls in their overdose calls gave them a feel for when particularly noxious batches of drugs were brought out to the countryside from Cincinnati or Dayton.
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That juxtaposition helps to explain the effectiveness of single "Your Best American Girl," one of the best songs of the year: it lulls you to sleep with a muted opening stretch before drowning you in a wave of noise and emotion.
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But the issues raised by the Tesla fatality, and the questions that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is asking, involve whether Autopilot's potential safety advantages offset the risks that such technology lulls drivers into a false sense of security.
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As questions resurface about whether the efficacy of such driving aides lulls drivers into complacency, automakers pack manuals with disclaimers, provide in-car audio and visual warnings, and direct salespeople to remind customers that such features should not be abused.
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"It seems that if we can program systems to be intelligent enough to respond to spikes and lulls in demand, then it doesn't seem a stretch to have the intelligence to adapt to declared states of emergency," Ms. Dow said.
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We were given logistical information and taught some cultural know-how, but the thing that stuck out most to me was a flowchart graphic that depicted the lulls and peaks of how we might experience the novelty of this country.
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CreditCreditTodd Heisler/The New York Times LONG BEACH, N.Y. — In the lulls between waves here on a recent weekday morning, dozens of nine-foot longboards floated like driftwood as the slate gray glass of the late-summer Atlantic dithered into cords.
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In addition to the surge in import volumes, the data show that China's LNG purchases haven't shown as much of the seasonal swings of past years, with a strong winter peak followed by lulls in spring and summer, before picking up in autumn.
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This makes Arrival sound like more of a conventional thriller than it really is, but to be fair, Villeneuve lulls us in with a character arc that, at first glance, doesn't look that much different than Gravity, another thoughtful science-fiction moonshot.
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Ideally, it should stock a solid array of polishes, play a soothing Zen soundtrack that lulls you to sleep in the pedicure chair, have an excellent selection of recent magazine issues, and be known for paying and treating their highly-trained staff fairly.
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To avoid going outside, they cooked and baked bread underground, venturing out during lulls to fetch water for cooking and bathing, said Mahmoud Bweidany, 19, who had spent much of the past few months crowded in a two-room basement with 10 other people.
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The brilliance of this work is that it lulls you into a false sense of calm before pulling the rug out from under you with hard truths about the ways a document designed to protect our freedoms has failed everyone but rich white men.
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"Kirkman does this crazy amazing thing that we're very much going to try to do in the movie, which is he lulls into a sense of security and convinces you you're in the first 20 minutes of Close Encounters of the Third Kind," he said.
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The high percentage of local artists—from the hisses and lulls of Rome-based DJ Rawmance to Paquita Gordon and Ece Duzgit's slow-building, but ultimately transformative B2B— of course cuts down on flights, but also contributes to the site-specific nature of the event.
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Your wife or husband and best friends are probably all too keen to reconnect with the boring you who doesn't wet himself on public transport, shout at police cars, dive out of windows, burst into tears during wildlife documentaries, and set himself on fire during conversational lulls.
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The second episode, however, lulls the audience into a false sense of security by opening with a fairly routine bit on Jerrod's preferred birthday gifts — and then his brother Bobby (Lil Rel Howery) comes in and tells them an unarmed teenager has been shot by local police.
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In the course of any performance of continuous improvisation lasting for the best part of an hour there are going to be lulls — substandard stretches that are left behind, that evaporate and are forgotten as a show progresses, but that can fatally contaminate an entire recording.
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Counteracting these headwinds, admirers say, is nearly a year's worth of evidence that Ms. Warren is doing something different and durable, that the sum total of the plans and the persistence and the 85,000 photos with fans is a campaign built to withstand semi-lulls like this.
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Netflix's Dating Around is therefore the anti Bachelor: The blind dates are about as real as one will ever get from reality TV, and the show really leans into the awkward conversation lulls, moments of real connection, and occasional inappropriate comment that causes an immediate date ceasefire.
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Pearson's vivid writing sometimes lulls you into the trance of a good story — character, voice, plot, conflict — but there's always the sucker punch at the end to remind you of the gruesome endpoint of the American health care system: If you don't have money, you can be sent out to die.
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When I met the artist last year, he told me that he works feverishly on his drawings, sometimes filling several sketchbooks in a single day, and that he tends to work intensively for varying periods of time, with in-between lulls, during which he rests, enjoys his music, and develops new visual ideas.
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Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter: During lulls in the action, there are bumbling attempts at what seems to be Besson's notion of romantic banter between the two leads, with Valerian awkwardly gurgling sentiments about settling down somewhere (and where would that be?), while Laureline looks disdainfully skyward as the man-child eats her dust.
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In football matches that already use goal-line technology, referees use more basic watches to get notified when a goal has been recognized by the automatic system, but now, apparently, they'll have all the features of the Big Bang Referee 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia to keep them entertained during lulls in the action.
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And if you're someone like me who tends to shy away from those "every season is its own movie!" sorts of shows, the long-standing character histories and complex web of plots in Orange means that season five never gets bogged down by the sorts of lulls those stories can be done in by.
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The top 5 baby shower gifts under $50:A personalized bedtime book from Uncommon GoodsCute, comfy crib sheets from BrooklinenA beloved WubbaNub pacifierA gift card for comfortable, organic cotton clothes for kidsA Baby Shusher that lulls babies to sleepBelow are 42 clever, cute, and thoughtful gifts to give at a baby shower — all under $50:
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These subplots about young love temper the grotesque bombast of the new season, because the Duffers seem to have learned that Stranger Things works best in the lulls—in the low-stakes, quiet moments between Mike and Eleven, or Steve and Dustin, or Brett Gelman's character and a random Russian hostage, in scenes were the show catches its breath and we're allowed to live alongside the characters for a minute.
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