Word: underwhelmingness
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As mayor of Somerville, Capuano took heat for that city's underwhelming educational record.
That sounds fine, but as a Clinton foreign policy triumph, the Wye summit has been underwhelming. "It required extraordinary effort and energy to produce a very modest agreement," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer. "But that modest agreement is nonetheless essential to get the process back on track so...
"The support for moving classes to 9 a.m. was underwhelming," Herschbach said.
Being censored is a high privilege for any American writer, and we experience it approximately zero times in our career. Our great bugaboo is not censorship; it's getting remaindered, seeing our brave writing stacked on the bookstore floor, marked down to $1.89--and nobody buying it at that price...
Delbanco's underwhelming explication is by no means limited to his protagonists: a certain sense of abruptness pervades Old Scores. The frequent, dramatic changes are never foreshadowed and are rarely discussed for more than a sentence. Beth suddenly gets married; years later her husband suddenly announces he is gay; Sally...