But similar events have happened in other parts of the world on a deadeningly regular basis.

Their power play, deadeningly dull, went 2 for 48 during one stretch.

As a memorial to the riots, it's deadeningly somber.

This is because both shows are echo chambers of deadeningly familiar ideas, devices and emotional hooks.

It is a dull story, dismally told and deadeningly sung, perhaps to some, deafeningly too.

As both soldier and dictator, he seemed to some to be deadeningly mediocre, to others a brilliant Machiavellian.

The pitfalls of deadeningly careful and willfully inaccurate-seeming historic reproduction were avoided.

"Goshogaoka" celebrates a rigid conformism that feels at once comfortable and deadeningly dreary.

She wasn't deadeningly simplistic.

And he does have an offbeat charm, even buried beneath wooden dialogue and a deadeningly loud laugh track.

Her stepfather had taken to denouncing her various interests as unrealistically ambitious or occasionally as deadeningly trivial.

In addition, their very impenetrability has an objectlike density that is far more memorable than the deadeningly familiar bad-boy images with which they consort.

Running from 8 to 11:20 P.M. on CBS, the live broadcast veered between being downright chintzy and deadeningly slick.

(Also included are prints, a selection of deadeningly generic watercolors and a group of sculptures that seem to have been resurrected from between the wars.)

Before long Americans improved the new technology by eliminating the need for the deadeningly long exposure times, and daguerreotype portrait studios spread and prospered across the country.

In contrast, the real piece of autobiography in this volume, a lengthy reminiscence titled "The Imaginary Girlfriend," is plodding, padded and, with the exception of a few cameo portraits, deadeningly dull.

True, the viewer had been tumbled into something akin to Alice's rabbit hole only to discover on landing that one was back in the world of 19th-century ballet conceits that too often look deadeningly hollow today.

The attempt to adapt Isak Dinesen's Deluge at Norderney resulted in "a deadeningly talky" episode dismissed by WCBS-TV program director Dan Gallagher as "a real failure."

IN the prosaic parlance of officialdom, they are deadeningly designated: the J-51 Tax Exemption and Abatement Program and Section 421a of the New York State Real Property Tax Law.

But the Pittsburgh dancers, led by Janet Popeleski, Laura Desiree and Brian Bloomquist, brought a distinctive look of leisurely amplitude to the piece, despite the cramped and sometimes deadeningly polite quality of the dancing.

This may be conclusive evidence that Mr. Schwartz has a better touch with humor than sobriety, especially considering that "Jane Eyre," the Broadway show that he directed with John Caird, is so deadeningly sincere.

Three short films shown at the Savannah Film and Video Festival in late October and early November reflected this desire to portray the cultural impact of figures who are deadeningly familiar but at the same time distant and enigmatic.

In its present state, it is deadeningly academic, but at heart it is a work about the way esthetic passion moves things, like rap or jazz, from one culture to another, creating misconceptions about their points of origin but also disseminating pleasure.

Michael St. John Caren Golden Fine Art 39 Wooster Street SoHo Through Oct. 21 Michael St. John has more ideas than he knows what to do with, most of them deadeningly generic.

And as they do every year at the Grammy Awards, record-business executives are likely to point out their plusher productions as artistic triumphs, even if noisier rock takes more chances; those are the "classy" productions, even if they're deadeningly safe.