Sentence:  An audience of young instructors and their wives, symbolically entertaining Dr and Mrs Dreyer, will be symbolically thrilled to catch the Dean in an anecdotal mood, mooning and mumbling with a fuddled smile through a maze of <WSD>wowless</WSD> sagas, into which George and many many others will enter, uttering misquotes. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Not eliciting surprise or amazement; unremarkable, dull.