Word: unappealingness
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For the novel, in spite of its erotic theme, is strangely sterile and unappealing. The characters are not fully developed. They do not engage us. The reader neither cares about nor understands their motivations or the tortured questionings of their hermetically sealed, inconsequential lives. This work reads like an unfinished...
The conversational snippets alone make the book endurable, although they might be unintelligible to those unversed in the esoterica of post-modernism or unappealing to those weary of deconstructionist cant.
Mental arithmetic, faced by this weird plastic plush -- seven inches or so of tube per hole, 80 holes on each side -- yields about 3 1/2 miles of plastic tubing; one imagines Hesse, who couldn't afford studio assistants, subjecting herself to a routine of repetitious semi-craftwork as punishing as...
Needless to say the phantoms of the village possessed me once. I lost orientation next to an experimental theatre, and by the time I orbited past an Algerian delicatessen mind-body severance was complete. As reality bade farewell, I sought refuge in an innocent looking private art gallery, specializing in...
For example, the report devotes considerable space to explaining how the lack of information on the Administrative Board precludes effective utilization of its safeguards and therefore undermines due process. The report thus concludes, for example, that although students are allowed to appear before the Ad Board and choose people other...