The duo knew their AP exams were coming up, and that they were in for an arduous few hours highlighted by long and dull essays, flickering fluorescent lighting and those ever-present No. 2 pencil hand cramps.
We discuss Norman Mailer's infamous – and infamously dull – 1957 essay on existentialism in America, The White Negro, with its expression of nuclear dread.
Little is quite as dull as literary worship; this essay on Borges is thus happily doomed.
"It seems bad to say, but marking essays is quite dull work.
"It seems bad to say, but grading essays is quite dull work.
Their "What I Did This Summer" essays will be very dull.
In 1957, Geisel wrote an essay for the New York Times Book Review railing against dull, tame children's books, which he said might as well all be called "Bunny, Bunny, Bunny".
"God, the Scots are such a dull and dour lot," a reader wrote in an essay about the Hundred Years' War, to which a later borrower replied, in lovely cursive, "Fuck off, cunt".
This collection of brisk and provocative essays argues that we've grown pretty dull and conservative, more interested in being parents than in being adults.
"Kunitz's voice would comment on the weak line, the dull word, the specific opacity," Glück has written in an essay.
