Word: unspectacularly
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...occupations traditionally dominated by females. Searching for more meaningful work or simply desperate for a paycheck in a sluggish economy, they are applying in increasing numbers for jobs or training in nursing, child care, housekeeping, teaching. The jobs are often crying out for more applicants, and offer solid, if unspectacular, pay. There's a downside, though, including cutesy nicknames like "murses" for male nurses and "mannies" for nannies. And pop-culture stereotyping is hard to shake. Consider Ben Stiller's ridiculed nurse in Meet the Parents, Freddie Prinze Jr.'s fragile nanny on Friends and Eddie Murphy's hapless child...
...golf course?” Klein said. “A lot of people freak out because the course is unfair and I think I’ve kind of come to terms with that. I kept a real even keel on everything. I’m just really unspectacular...
Statistically, this should never have happened. The Terriers are unspectacular offensively, and scoring four goals on one of the nation’s hottest goaltenders (BU’s Sean Fields) should have ensured a victory, especially since Harvard entered the game ranked second nationally in team defense, allowing 2.17 goals per game, and Grumet-Morris had the nation’s second-highest save percentage...
There’s never an easy way to reshuffle defensive pairings with a man out, but having to do so seemed to rattle Harvard a little more than it should have. The Crimson was disorganized in the defensive zone, and the solid-yet-unspectacular Terriers made...
...opinion now that evil is never 'radical,' that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface." This was what W.H. Auden meant: "Evil is unspectacular and always human,/And shares our bed and eats at our own table." The normality of evil...