Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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At 75, May D'Marie has visited enough retirement homes to know that she never wants to live in one. "They're boring," she says. "Everyone is the same age practically. And even the elevators move slowly." But she also doesn't want to live alone, doesn't have family...
The kind of cheap inspiration imparted by this excerpt from the weakest section of The Cure at Troy is perfect for earnest and boring lightweights like Doubletake Magazine which takes the same quote as its mantra but one would really expect more substance from Gordimer, whose fiction breathes with implacable...
"Do you mind?" The footsteps came running up behind me as I perched over my handlebars. "You!" A middle-aged lady was treading in my direction, her eyes boring into me. "Riding on the sidewalk, in and out of people! You're an idiot!"
Melvin V. Priester '01, who was at the debate, said he felt that--with the exception of the outlandish Benjamin W. Dreyfus '01--the debate was boring, and complained that candidates spent too much time talking about the council's image instead of substantive change.
The kind of cheap inspiration imparted by this excerpt from the weakest section of The Cure at Troy is perfect for earnest and boring lightweights like Doubletake Magazinewhich takes the same quote as its mantrabut one would really expect more substance from Gordimer, whose fiction breathes with implacable moral force...