Word: dullness
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...Dunster senior, has several concrete theories about the possible directions virtual sex could take. "Once you have the full body suit virtual experience, there will be an enormous potential for living out erotic fantasies in total privacy. But the idea of being plugged into a world designed in the dull, plastic, feathered hair aesthetic of most current pornography is terrifying." For better or for worse, both of these scenarios are still imaginary; the technology is years behind the theory...
...those who aren't vain enough to care about permanence or for taking exams, where we would rather not have our confused hieroglyphics remembered. Pencil use has its hierarchy, though: note the dichotomy between integral-calculators, who use mechanical pencils, and the doodler who doesn't notice how terminally dull his or her Dixon Ticonderoga #2 has gotten...
Bear with the dull parts--there may not be gold at the end of the rainbow but there's certainly much of interest along...
...voice belongs to our captain for the evening, who informs us all that things up in the cockpit are a little dull (as if we couldn't have predicted that) and that he'd like to continue his "favorite tradition...
...keeping his deadbeat in-laws afloat. He died at 44, in 1894, having written his own requiem: "Under the wide and starry sky/ Dig the grave and let me lie/ Glad did I live and gladly die ..." McLynn tells his story with grace and skill, and only a dull reader will finish this biography without heading for the library to search out a complete edition of Stevenson's marvelous but now mostly unread short tales...