Summary
boring: adjective. 1: Uninteresting and tiresome; dull. (Etymology: from Old English borian "to bore a hole", from bor "auger", from early Germanic boron, "to cut with a sharp point".) - American Heritage Dictionary.
THIS week's multifarious elections have repeatedly garnered the adjective "boring" in the media. It is always a professional challenge to write about something tedious for the obvious reason that the article runs the risk of sending the reader to sleep. One's only alternative is to make the whole thing sound much more exciting than it is and thereby run the risk of undermining the premise of the argument. Cue lots of media personality pieces about the vain Robert Kilroy-Silk.See the full content of this document
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Word of the Week: Boring
I am fascinated by the notion of something being "boring". When did humans develop...
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