Partly it was the realization that I’d soon return to the decidedly unstimulating “real Army,” but it was more than that, too.

But the unstimulating, solitary life of the 33-year-old orangutan with gentle eyes and dark-red hair will take a turn Thursday when she leaves Buenos Aires for the United States.

And the job, unstimulating as it could be, seemed to offer no way out.

"The curriculum was unstimulating, behaviour was a massive issue, parents were completely switched off. We deserved to be where we were."

Wives may find their husband’s friends to be bad influences, uninteresting or unstimulating, or a competing force for their husband’s time.