Sam is gleeful as she suddenly realizes that she can wield a brutally efficient knife while cutting vegetables in the kitchen – and what middle-class dull bourgeois, of whatever gender, wouldn't like to take a week off to smoke cigarettes, change hairstyles, look hot and shoot some bad guys?
Hamasaki started vocal training, but skipped most of her classes after finding her instructors to be too rigid and the classes dull.
It is also a pity that in order to build her up as a rebellious outsider, Jenny's two closest chums are presented as giggly admirers and the other girls in her class as dull, unimaginative frumps incapable of responding to King Lear and Jane Eyre with a sensitivity and intelligence comparable to Jenny's.
In numerous surveys, nine out of ten high-school students admit they are not interested in studying STEM subjects, because classes are dull, the subject matter irrelevant, and the teachers ill-prepared.
Talley stumbled into chemistry at the University of Northern Iowa after finding business classes unbearably dull.
Parents and student complain the classes are dull, boring and routine.
"What a dull class it would be," he said.
Some evidence for this can be seen in semiconscious behaviors, like doodling during a dull class, braiding strands of hair, folding notebook paper into odd shapes.
From 10 June "Class isn't dull as we have a seriously disturbed student in the class, and they are trying to figure out how to get rid of him before he does something bad, but, on the other hand, until he does something bad, you can't do anything about him.
Not so cute that she would have, say, gone up to him at a party, but cute enough that she could have drummed up an imaginary crush on him if he'd sat across from her during a dull class — though she was pretty sure that he was out of college, in his mid-twenties at least.
Bart goes on a dull class field trip to a box factory.
