flattened out

The landscape is industrial, flattened out and lined with wide paths that are more suited for cycling than the kind of sauntering one might do in Amsterdam, but Gallagher, an avid biker, prefers Rotterdam’s “spooky,” sparse scenery.

In the last few weeks, however, that virus seems to have flattened out at “less than half of what we saw last year at this time, at least by our testing numbers. So that’s a good sign,” Gin said.

Adapted from a somewhat one-dimensional series of French comics by writer Matz and the artist Luc Jacamon — and further flattened out by “Seven” screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker — “The Killer” is an opportunity for America’s most stylish director to reboot, to get back to basics, to come in under two hours.

“Oh my, no. The new Internet system they evolved swept the country and the stock jumped to ten dollars and split, which gave you six thousand shares at five, then went back up to ten dollars and split again, which gave you twelve thousand shares, which climbed back up to five-fifty a share, hung there and flattened out. So I sold when it went back down to four dollars.”

Keeping in mind our battery “budget” for the day — around 25 miles — we used turbo assist on the initial uphill stretch, then turned our batteries off to pedal normally as the road flattened out.