He had understood nothing, and the only idea he had gathered was that evolution was a dry-as-dust theory, of a lot of little men possessed of huge and unintelligible vocabularies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mr. Cohen has thus produced the opposite of a dry-as-dust academic tome, and it is full of surprises. ❋ Andrew Roberts (2011)
Whenever architecture has been reduced to simply being about architecture, it has suffered -- whether under the dry-as-dust reforming classicist Abbé Laugier during the eighteenth century, or Mies and Corbu in the twentieth. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Love proceeds not out of the dry-as-dust way of the mind. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Many expect a similarly unsatisfying outcome on the hard turf of the dry-as-dust Adelaide Oval, where batsmen typically run up huge scores and bowlers similar to pitchers struggle to get to 20 wickets. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Although Guderian, one of the victors, visited Smolensk on the 17th, recording that it was largely undamaged, there is nothing in his dry-as-dust record of those days to indicate any sort of self-consciousness as to his victory, or for that matter, that a battle had even been fought. ❋ John Mosier (2010)
According to Mr. Skeel, this organization seeks to transform dry-as-dust evangelical scholars into media savvy, theatrically sophisticated scholars who can propagate their learning "in a culturally influential manner to a broad audience," preferably with comedic panache. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Michael Dirda on The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel: Surely, though, the man is your typical melancholy, dry-as-dust bibliophile? ❋ Unknown (2008)
Throughout this saga, the "vaccines cause autism" side could claim more powerful persuaders than the dry-as-dust scientific papers and even drier scientists trying to reassure parents. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They are generally complex men, interested, trigger tempered, yes ... but also nimble-witted and at times dry-as-dust funny. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A lonely and a sterile life alone can find sufficient satisfaction in the dry-as-dust occupation of delving into dreary records to find a name, a mere name, the date when the name was born and died, the date when the name married another name, and the dates of all the other names that went before and came after. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Trade legislation debates are usually about dry-as-dust topics like reciprocity and dumping. ❋ Unknown (2008)
MilMillington. com offers a dry-as-dust list of things a Brit and his girlfriend argue about ( "She really overreacts whenever she catches me wearing her underwear"). ❋ Unknown (2008)
They've got plenty of room to spout off in the pages of the New York Times; especially on this dry-as-dust episode, showcasing these guys just doesn't do it for me. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Remember when you were a kid on vacation and your mom dragged you from the beach to take you to some dry-as-dust museum for a "wonderful educational experience?" ❋ Unknown (2006)
Whether the dry-as-dust right wingers would welcome that is another matter entirely. ❋ Unknown (2007)
I will fight through the dry-as-dust corporate abbreviations and muster the energy for a final, celebratory chicken dance. ❋ Unknown (2006)
No dry-as-dust production this: the visuals are great. ❋ Unknown (2005)
