Word: dullness
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...Homer isn't bright, but he loves his brood. The poor patriarch is so dull witted that he probably couldn't count to 16 if he used all his fingers and his toes. But he is a faithful husband, and if he often derides his kids, he will do anything -- go skateboarding off a cliff, defy his boss, buy Lisa a pony -- if the tots scream loud enough and if Marge gives him a lecture...
Aboud said that unlike the 121-year-old HarvardCrimson which materializes predictably every dayand is therefor "just dull," the Lampoon prefersto surprise its readers. Aboud is also an editorof The Crimson...
...opening sequence, and the movie lurches and grinds towards the unwelcome appearance of Barnes on the window ledge high above the street. Like the other executives before him, we have to watch Barnes take his turn at contemplating suicide. It is neither funny nor suspenseful, just one more dull picture we have seen before...
...would be Aaron who would lose 25 pounds in the next two months. Swimming three to four hours every day, barely eating any food, he managed to bring himself to the brink of near-starvation. His eyes were dull in his bony face and his skin clung to his frame like gray sandpaper...
Moreover, you learn one dull Wednesday morning that you are not just another vessel for empty information in a large undergraduate crowd shuffled off from the main thrust of a University purportedly catering to its graduate students and research-conducting professors. You are not a student conditioned to aloof professors, confusing lectures, competitive classmates, a systematic process of translation-memorization-regurgitation-evacuation. You are a human being too--not just a note and test-taking machine, capable of equal fascination with The Mechanism and potential contribution to the field...