Word: dullness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When in doubt, perform. This rationale has led some professors to employ theatrical techniques to stimulate the audience. "I do give a good lecture. I like to tell a good historical tale," says Mendelsohn. "Sure, the material could be magnificent, but if I were dull, they wouldn't come...
...only do professors work to make their lectures interesting, they also face the formidable challenge of simply keeping students awake. "If a big class is dull, it is really bad. Three hundred people snoring!" Kirshner chuckles. To combat the nightmare of a slumbering crowd, Kirshner works to keep his audience happy...
...investigated the FAA progress, and though it?s true that they?ve made many positive gains since last February, don?t be fooled. The FAA is far from out of the woods, and the flip side of its shiny Krugeraand of reassurance is a dull and gritty kopek of uncertainty and unanswered questions...
...these managers dared to be dull for a purpose. Dull was the right antidote to their frothing performance in the House. Dull is good when the Senate has deigned to be host to the poor relations with country manners in the upper house. Dull fits their perverse purpose: to make a case strong enough to vindicate their vote to impeach, but not so strong that the need for witnesses isn't manifest. The only way to pre-empt Days of Our Lives is to get the gold-festooned Chief Justice to ask Monica Lewinsky to raise her right hand...
...complete sham, but it was only after my first year in a college 3,000 miles away from home that I fully realized this fact. School, instead of sparking a love for learning for the sake of adding to my personal repertoire of knowledge, has only managed to dull my intellectual senses and developed within me a repulsion for anything academic. The endless rounds of frantically scribbling down notes in lecture, memorizing all the possible facts, dates and names of the required text, then regurgitating them for a caffeine-assisted paper or a hand-cramping three-hour exam. All this...