Word: humdrum
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Certain accents are widespread. Posh Queen’s English of the Eton or Cambridge variety is so familiar as to sound humdrum. Such accents, however, are all linked by a common denominator: a decidedly non-plebian heritage. By contrast, the Boston accent has a distinctly blue-collar identity...
...pulling out dead and dying fish. According to the fishermen, the same thing happened every month when paper mills and fertilizer factories upstream discharged their wastewater tanks. Stripped to their underwear and wading into the foul water with nets and baskets, the locals regarded the situation as predictable, even humdrum - an aid to fishing...
Lottman says he jumped at the chance. It would give him a break from what he calls a “humdrum existence” at the Daily News, and more importantly, it would give him a chance to tell the stories of people that his own paper eschewed...
Professors’ inboxes overflowing with students’ well-crafted and earnest inquiries, lecture halls bursting with enthusiastic young men and women, a palpable spirit of excitement and possibility in the air—shopping period abounds in strange phenomena. But before its peculiar energy vanishes into the humdrum of the semester’s subsequent weeks, let us consider some improvements that could enhance students’ shopping experience and render the week an even more productive introduction to the semester. Shopping period has long been a time of introductions, as students become acquainted with new courses, professors...
...outrageous: he depicted the bourgeoisie wearing their Sunday best and he painted mysterious women naked in jungles. The odd and the commonplace co-existed inside his head: he never went nearer a tropical forest than Paris' Botanic Gardens, and for much of his life combined painting with the humdrum work of a tax collector. "Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris," at Tate Modern until Feb. 5, is the first major exhibit of his work in London for nearly 80 years. It brings together paintings from Europe, Japan and the U.S., and showcases his imagined foreign scenes and modest, less well-known...