The Shell sign hovered, its colors dulled, a corner of it broken, or maybe bitten off.
The tonic of lower interest rates has been dulled by the dysfunctional financial system.
McEnroe didn't want to play on a damp court, he said, because it dulled his attacking game.
Even the very best wines become dulled, and food can taste bland and under-seasoned when in flight.
By offering a platform that was so much more compelling, it actually dulled the pain of switching.
It has the power to revive senses that have been dulled by the crushing predictability of recent movies.
Fixed income traders have perhaps had their senses dulled by the Japanese earthquake.
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Prospects for future activity were dulled by a fall in building permits from an annual pace of 617, 000 to 597, 000.
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Portal is a game from 2007, its cutting edge somewhat dulled technologically, and the original Half-Life was first published in 1998.
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This effectively dulled their sense of smell: the rats could not tell one smell from the other, even for a reward.
On his ring finger was a wedding band, aged though not dulled.
Under the glare of electric lights, I saw that the porcelain was coated with a layer of dust, the silverware dulled by tarnish.
It's probably hard to plan a year off if your wits have been dulled by the Uniform Commercial Code and the Rule Against Perpetuities.
Perhaps in Boston, with pockets nearly as deep as the Yankees, his razor sharp intellect was dulled just enough to cause these lapses in judgment.
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But just as the kaleidoscope of this weird election has painted Mr Clegg's relatively small advances in brighter colours, it has dulled Mr Cameron's much bigger ones.
Meanwhile the natural body clock was disturbed - some genes naturally wax and wane in activity through the day, but this effect was dulled by sleep deprivation.
Much of what economists know about structural unemployment has been gleaned from the sorry history of continental Europe, where fat benefits and rigid firing rules dulled labour-market efficiency.
Mittal insists his success has not dulled his entrepreneurial drive.
"You reach a point where people get dulled to the whole thing and stop listening to the attacks, " acknowledged Fletcher, who said Baesler started it and he was forced to respond.
Nevertheless, the power of both bodies is purposely dulled.
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Investors absorbed another worrisome reading on the housing market Tuesday, but an encouraging uptick in consumer confidence dulled the blow as stocks roared out to their best levels of the session by midday.
Named as the key to the future in one of the most famous lines from that classic film The Graduate, plastic has long since lost its shimmer, dulled by its costs to our environment.
After the group's last tie in October, Liberia will not play a qualifying match for nearly two years - something that appears to have dulled Hey's enthusiasm for a job he only assumed in March.
Clearly age has dulled little about Kerkorian.
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But after the 2010-11 season, the worst of his career (he finished with a losing record for the first time, and the Devils missed the playoffs), Brodeur acknowledged that the passage of time had dulled his quickness and athleticism.
If, on the other hand, you've heard "The Four Seasons" a few dozen too many times for your own good, then spending an evening with "Recomposed by Max Richter" might just have the welcome effect of reopening your ears to a time-honored classic whose beauties have been dulled by excessive repetition.
Eli Lilly 's (nyse: LLY - news - people ) Zyprexa was the most effective drug in the trial, but its victory was dulled by the medicine's side effects, and by the fact that Zyprexa was given in doses higher than are allowed on its prescribing label, while the other drugs were not.
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