Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LEAVING GEORGE TO ponder his own confused emotions and subsequently to plunge into a thicket of despondency and heartsickness, the two women scurry back to England where Lucy conveniently becomes engaged to an eminently suitable if terribly boring young bachelor, the aptly named Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day Lewis). Things would...
First of all, there are a lot of boring people at Harvard, and it's time they organized their own table, and left mine. The Boring Table would involve a group of 10 to 12 patently uninteresting people eating together and sharing their political and artistic views. A prize, such...
When Walker shows up, the pretty production assistant who has been assigned to keep him and his bad influence away from Lu Anne complains about the surrounding dullness: "This is all very tame stuff, if you ask me. Outside of the usual drunks. It's so tranquil and businesslike it...
When a prominent New York City politician tried to kill himself just before his name came up in a bribery scandal, the Times published a helpful little box of unanswered questions, such as where had he spent the previous seven hours, and with whom. Sometimes, in a column under the...
Other pre-freshmen, though, did not seem as enthused with the classes they visited. "I've always considered myself to be a science person, so I went to neurobiology," says Priest. "I found it boring. A lot of the stuff I'd done before."