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The government official gave an ossified performance at the press conference.

He repeated the same old talking points again and again, never diverging from his original message.

With one flamboyant and outrageous comment after another, he alternately amused and scandalized the audience.

The dullness of his monotone was equaled by the vacuity of his words.

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