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A recent Mori poll suggests that ``people magnets'' are healthier, wealthier and more effective in the work place than their dourer counterparts.

Another such castle, its moat iced over, is circled by skaters, though dourer than those of Avercamp, and thronged with the customers of a beer-tent put up in the lee of a rampart (Scene on the Ice around the Merwedehuis, Private Collection).

'Like his name,' went the line, 'his bowling is neither one thing nor the other.' In my cricket days for this newspaper, I was once moved to what I thought was quite clever sarcasm after watching Worcestershire's Glenn Turner on one of his dourer days.

Not only were Tua's punches fewer they were also poorer which made it dourer for the viewer.

Both Butterflies danced stylishly and fluttered with the requisite emotion, although their stalwart Russian partners were of dourer, sterner stuff.