Word: staled
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...write 60, 80 or more pages about some arcane subject. For those of you who are under the delusion that you have found the topic which will carry you through months of writing, no matter how scintillating your topic seems to be at first, it will eventually seem stale and insufferable...
...weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,/ Seems to me all the uses of this world," says Hamlet to himself...
Though you may think that going to chem lecture is a waste because if you sit in the back, the professor looks as small as the carbon dioxide molecule he is talking about, the jokes are as stale as a Store-24 ham sandwich and the verbatim transcript of the lecture is in your chemistry book (pp. 325-346), lecture is an invaluable way to add to your understanding of the material--by trading problem sets with classmates. You can repeat this formula with biology and mathematics...
Swingers: that word is not so much dirty as stale. It evokes the musty air of Rat Pack swagger, when Frank and Dino passed for arbiters of hip machismo. Man, did the chicks dig it! Anyway, that's what the young L.A. layabouts in Swingers pretend to think, playing it oh so cool with the "babies" and thinking they're classy when ordering pricey Scotch--something with "Glen" in its name. They bop to the knowing bounce of Louis Jordan, Bobby Darin, Basie and Bennett and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy band, and check out Sinatra Night at the Lava...
Still, in the spirit which has come to typify the platforms of political outsiders, Stowe says, "The approaches of the two other parties are stale...