Too much time and money, little purpose, and boredom are a lethal combination. |
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With all this pressure the crew relieve boredom and tension of long flights by playing practical jokes. |
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If one more thing goes wrong with my body, my eyes are gonna roll back in my head with sheer utter boredom. |
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Local teenagers blamed the disturbances on boredom, and what they see as a total lack of things for them to do in the area. |
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I often find dead spiders in the house and wonder whether they've died from boredom or starvation. |
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I read somewhere the other day about boredom being necessary for creativity. |
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Emotional eating is a big problem for lots of people, and so is eating out of boredom, or habit. |
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The accident, along with endless months of pain and boredom in hospital, failed to break her spirit. |
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Sometimes a long period of whittling away at the front-runner can lead to boredom and apathy. |
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We fear boredom, yet it is from boredom that real and productive imaginative play is spawned. |
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There was certainly no boredom at the Varsity match in Cambridge on Saturday. |
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The conveyer belt buzzed, little children cried from boredom and couples of women chattered on about their flights. |
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For me, the ancient Greeks and Romans, the high Middle Ages and even the Tudors passed in a blur of boredom. |
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The crowd was moving, milling around with boredom as they slowly began to disperse. |
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My character mimed ill-disguised boredom while waiting for him to settle down. |
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Increasing persistence with a number of short-range goals can help break up periods of boredom. |
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I mean, Mondays you have just started the oppressive boredom, so you have a lot to talk about. |
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Still, while locked up, the inmates look for something to relieve the boredom and monotony of prison life. |
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Is it boredom, morbid curiosity or just a downright nosiness to see how unfavourably other people's lives compare? |
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Even if it's related to the boredom often felt in offices or a basic human need to feel wanted, the siren call of the inbox is hard to resist. |
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The slam-bang boredom created by these glorified grunge grunts is almost unlistenable. |
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By the time order was restored, it was clear that the whole family were united in boredom. |
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He yawned boorishly and stretched his arms above his head of crimson spiky hair, leaning backwards for some emphasis of his boredom. |
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She kicked out against the the boredom, repetitiveness and narrowness of women's lives. |
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He is not, he admits, a natural teacher, and for him, having to stick with a single subject would have resulted in crushing boredom. |
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Maria chooses this job to escape a potential life as a single, unsupported mother living in poverty and boredom in her small town. |
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He spends his days stealing beer and cigarettes to numb the boredom of life in the miniscule, snowbound village he has grown up in. |
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Are you looking for a vacation spot where you can relax, unwind and get rid of every day stress without dying of boredom? |
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And with House Of Wax's combination of brainlessness and boredom, that's a truly scary thought. |
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When the city's culinary scene threatens to lapse into boredom, there is someone who comes along promising to add a dash of spice to it. |
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This is not to say that Cabernet Sauvignon is always the antidote to vinous boredom. |
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They think we are inured to the whole business and, in any case, suffused with a boredom with the political process. |
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The manager must change the style of play straight away or we're going to be consigned to another season of boredom and non-success. |
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Traditionally the life of a soldier involves long stretches of boredom punctuated by brief and seemingly unending moments of stark terror. |
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She handily demonstrated the difference between discomfort and enervating boredom. |
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A captive wild animal can only show us the loneliness, fear and boredom they experience for the entirety of their miserable lives. |
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One night will by no means be enough to try all the dishes, and a trip to the hawker center sure beats the boredom of room service. |
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The mere prospect of having to recount a personal anecdote plunges me into boredom verging on catalepsy. |
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While the strong-minded will cope with the boredom better, others may need more support. |
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He looked about in boredom, gaze falling up to the helm, where he found the sturdy figure of his father's first mate stood. |
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Perhaps its this intolerance for boredom that explains some of the bassist's more outrageous adventures. |
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She sighed and put her hands behind her back and swung back in forth in boredom while she waited for the two to finish up what they were doing. |
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To fight off boredom I will have a pool table and glass chess set with me in the tank. |
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After a few hours of sleepless boredom, he took out a handgun from his leg holster. |
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In closing, remember dogs are social or pack animals and need quality time with you or another dog to ward off boredom and anxiety. |
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Perhaps what also appeals to us is the ability to escape the humdrum, routine, everyday boredom and frustration just by murmuring a spell. |
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What the ex-policeman takes for boredom, though, is the stillness of a serpent as its cloven tongue tastes the scent in the breeze. |
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But I soon tired of the parental nagging, and the boredom and the pennilessness of teenage unemployment, and set out to find myself an income. |
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The blond woman who stood in the aisle between us wore a painted expression of impatience and utter boredom. |
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He creates a bad-dream atmosphere, a phantasmagoria of boredom, futile journeys, wasted lives and endless, incantatory meetings. |
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An adequate account of boredom, then, must explain in one sense that only something indeterminate is lacking. |
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The opening sequence paints a portrait of the quietus and quaintness of suburbia and the stifling boredom it can induce. |
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This is a very dodgy position to be in, as complacency and boredom can quickly set in. |
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Unfortunately, we sometimes hear of neurotic behaviors and ingrained habits such as feather-picking activities being prompted by sheer boredom. |
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So life moved placidly forward, in his last days, from nonage to nonagenarianism, and boredom was the worst thing that could happen to him. |
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In truth, they were supposed to be stationed at every twenty metres along the wall, but they all converged together out of sheer boredom. |
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All the local counties are organising activities so you cannot complain of boredom! |
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The illness, the covering for sick colleagues, the boredom and the hunger, meant nerves were always at full stretch. |
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The people you meet there are all the same too, and underneath the forced smiles and jaded handshakes you detect great reservoirs of boredom. |
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I left the cinema half an hour before the end of the film in disgust, anger and, quite frankly, boredom. |
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The items include glibness and superficial charm,, grandiose self-worth, pathological lying, proneness to boredom and emotional vacuity. |
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War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. |
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The writing surface in front of her is gouged from thirty years of insolence and boredom at the hands of the hostile day students. |
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The kinder, gentler Parrot is dull and many of his listeners on 2GB must be dying of boredom. |
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There is a high level of disaffection and boredom with an approach to learning which deletes joy, creativity and engagement from the process. |
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For boredom and disillusionment come easier to those who have everything and more. |
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The pain of living in this house with such ennui, such boredom for nine years. |
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But for those who are privileged to get their life extended forever, will boredom and ennui not set in? |
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My option now is to use this boredom to concentrate more on the degree, although the latest book on animal rights is as dull as ditchwater now. |
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For the viewer or the reader, this can be a pleasant experience, a feeling of ease, without boredom or dullness. |
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A culture frantic to entertain, divert, and inform cannot drown out boredom. |
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Anyway, the keynote of Major's speech was excruciating, paper napkin-chewing boredom. |
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He came to collect her and I had to suffer another fifteen minutes of excruciating boredom as he talked at me about things I have no interest in. |
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As soon as I land into a boutique or department store I am struck down with a bout of excessive yawning and excruciating boredom. |
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There are prisoners from Louisiana excusing their crimes by blaming boredom. |
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He slowly loped around the forest, exploring the area a bit out of pure boredom. |
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Because winning means overcoming levels of boredom that can drive a man mad. |
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The boredom was driving him nuts, and it was impossible to sleep with the lights on. |
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The rotation of question masters works very well as it guarantees a good variety of topics and keeps boredom at bay. |
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I know people link our sort of vandalism to boredom and jealousy but what we're really trying to do is get a reaction. |
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The only problem was that no matter what she did the boredom wouldn't lift. |
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I think if you could actually die of boredom, Dan would be laid out on the floor in a body bag by this point. |
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I tried not to show my boredom, but my yawns were coming quicker and quicker. |
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At parties, it was the last thing I wanted to mention, since it was certain to bring yawns and glares of boredom from beer-holding peers. |
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But we are tired, and Mum mistakes our tiredness and stifled yawns for boredom. |
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Sadie's heavy eyelids and swallow-the-earth yawns were entirely down to yet another interminable boredom barrage from Mr Brown. |
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I start to drum my fingernails on my purse, out of habit, boredom, and yes, irritation. |
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Jones explained his act as a dramatic remedy for boredom and chronic depression. |
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You know the frantic boredom of war and the way you'll clutch at almost any kind of amusement. |
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Everyone was starting to fidget with hunger and boredom when the door opened to admit the latecomer. |
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Supposing you have recently been bordering on boredom, use this opportune session to add more zest to your existence. |
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An occasional escorted walk up or down the aisle to or from the lav or alternating seats next to the window also eased the boredom. |
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Various reasons for the retirals were given by their teams, but it was obvious the real reason was terminal boredom. |
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Even his apparently limitless supply of inner motivation must hit a boredom threshold at some point in the distant future. |
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Tara said happily, but the sign of hunger and boredom lingered in her eyes. |
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The most generic blurb about media art is that boredom dumbs down while entertainment enlightens. |
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She wants to spice up a moribund marriage, and thinks that robbing a bank or an armored car might be the perfect antidote to boredom. |
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The children have enjoyed a week of fun and games and arts and crafts designed to prevent boredom setting in during the long summer holidays. |
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A contestant makes a truly asinine remark and the boredom abates slightly, even as annoyance levels are soaring. |
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It was the longest trip to Versailles ever and I was mad with boredom, for I was burning with excitement to tell Jacqui about a book I read. |
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That means I have 4 hours of boredom and tedium whilst standing and getting sore feet ahead of me. |
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However, now your baby will cry from boredom, anxiety, frustration and teething. |
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Now ennui is a terrible thing but it seems to have roughly the same effect as terminable boredom. |
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The mild suggestion of boredom he affects can't disguise a hint of testiness. |
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She listened with half an ear while she surveyed her surroundings with boredom. |
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In all his readings of seamanship and knots he had never found himself moved to tears, unless from boredom. |
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For if all these experiences relieved the boredom of a well-brought-up young lady's life in Mayfair, they nonetheless proved a Barmecide feast. |
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The lead character, Chip, struggles desperately to find a way to circumvent the terrible boredom and meaninglessness of existence. |
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Richard is the high school superstar, with a rich daddy and a low boredom threshold. |
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Conditioned to expect immediate gratification, these youth have shorter attention spans and also a low threshold for boredom. |
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This isn't the smug, self-satisfied account of a young person growing up in the suburbs, with all the boredom and complacency that follows. |
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Eventually, boredom conquered and I rose into the darkness, or semi-darkness. |
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Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy. |
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If you are already groaning with boredom at the mere hint of another mention of Big Brother, I'm sorry about that. |
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It seemed an odd sort of voyeurism, titillation without a tittle of anything much going on, boredom elevated to a modern art form. |
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Hence its life swings like a pendulum to and fro between pain and boredom, and these two are in fact its ultimate constituents. |
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Warrington, essentially, your beefs with these films are length and boredom. |
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It takes a very focused mind indeed to do this without listener boredom setting in. |
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The relentless boredom, fear and frustration hung over her head like a black storm cloud. |
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Every time the boys' boredom threatens to go off like a klaxon, she produces another palliative. |
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Drew fought really, really hard to not roll her eyes in frustrated boredom. |
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On the contrary, it has brought us obsessions with work, stress and boredom. |
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You know, I think one of the problems I'm having at the moment is a deep and unassailable boredom. |
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They are paintings about boredom and the consolation of invented pleasures. |
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The austerity is admirable but the effect of this hair-shirted self-punishment is too often not the revelation of a new affective range, but a dutiful boredom. |
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As they have been realised, the dreams themselves have assumed a peculiar character of sobriety, of the spirit of positivism, and beyond that, of boredom. |
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In a pre-emptive strike against the menacing spectre of boredom, I had decided I would write a letter to someone conducting themselves meritoriously. |
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In this story, Teddy remembers the boredom, short tempers, and listlessness of the campers until his Dad convinced the community to unite in constructing a baseball field. |
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Young master Taft took the book with him to the swearing-in of his father, William Howard Taft, apparently to stave off boredom. |
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There must be someone at the centre of a web, pulling strings, yanking cords, tugging ropes and generally causing all their misery and pain or lulling them into dry boredom. |
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He asked Damien as he fiddled with a beer mat out of boredom. |
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Therefore, neat and concise hyphenated compound terms will be used throughout to help disentangle his various roles and avoid needless repetition and reader boredom. |
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This is called compassion fatigue and, dare I say it, boredom. |
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Two whole easily forgettable years of torture and boredom are almost over. |
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The day ended, I retired to my dorm room in boredom, finishing more homework and watching as Bridget fluttered back and forth between her bed and the bathroom. |
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I hope she does get another dog now that Papa's little Yorkie has gone to her reward or the house will bulge to the breaking point with boredom purchases. |
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This wasn't some boredom induced vandalism, this was deliberate infliction of horrendous pain on one of the most harmless and appealing creatures there is. |
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The irony is that, in editing, one has to lie to tell the truth, otherwise the audience would die of boredom or the truth would be smothered under a mountain of chaff. |
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At first, her motions were subtle enough to go unfelt, but after a while, as her boredom steadily increased, Mark started stirring uneasily in his sleep. |
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Boredom descended once again as the match drivelled towards the conclusion. |
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In my overanxious state, I started looking around the crowd mostly to alleviate the boredom of the MC who had been announcing the night's festivities for over five minutes. |
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They cooked and washed, men drank and played charangos, older kids whined about the rustic boredom, and Fabrizio, age five, made a first disastrous experiment with chicha. |
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Perhaps it was the boredom of long hours alone that motivated the horsemen to teach their saddle horses ridiculous tricks, but the csikos claim a practical purpose for each. |
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Overeating can result from greediness, boredom, or overfeeding. |
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Contact with Mickie was never prolonged, when useful conversation was exhausted, he politely terminated the meeting avoiding boredom on either side. |
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Most of the conspirators were young officers, for whom promotion was irksomely slow and who had been reading German Romantic writers to ease their boredom. |
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I sometimes sucked on cough drops to escape moments of boredom. |
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With a slow-motion gaze, the camera panned across a sea of nameless people, focusing on expressions of worry, boredom and anticipation as they awaited their party's arrival. |
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These unhappy dramas usually play out against a background of boredom, profligacy, infidelities, divorces, drinking and so forth. |
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Time seems to stand still in the chorales, which are sung by the Harvard and Radcliffe groups with an honesty that precludes boredom and concerns about stylistic refinement. |
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Can we find ways to accept what we do and what happens to us in life's joys and griefs, successes and failures, and even its routines and boredom? |
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The assumption that the Windsor matriarch, alone of her tribe, offered a symbol impervious to scepticism, reproach, censure, even simple boredom, has been dispelled. |
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The whole penalty issue is, to a large degree, standing between boredom and the possibility of making rugby, particularly at the non-professional levels, more entertaining. |
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But I would be very surprised if most hunt members didn't soon tire of footling about and looked for other ways to relieve the boredom of country life in winter. |
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These include tips on how to avoid boredom, loneliness, frustration, and anxiety. |
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Absence makes your boredom threshold lower, as well as your heart sore. |
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Sadly the rest of the second half was trite to the point of boredom. |
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They experience boredom, sickness, early deaths and they aggress, attacking and even killing human beings. |
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But the prevailing emotion that day, even among us awardees, was a bemused sense of boredom, restlessness and insatiability. |
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When Charlotte and Amerigo resume their affair, their behavior seems motivated less by passion than boredom. |
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Fans were delighted, but within the band there were signs of boredom and discord. |
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He'd sit there all day through what must have been excruciating boredom. |
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Cold and clinical to the point of boredom, filled with emotionless commentary and business jargon, it was difficult to tell what effect this character was meant to have. |
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Until he un-retires again because of boredom and missing the klieg lights and having a car trunk still stuffed with incense. |
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Rae detected a hint of boredom radiating from the woman's voice. |
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It's not always easy for a player who has accomplished so much to avoid a bit of senioritis, whether it comes from angst about the future or boredom. |
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A jump rope twined around a girl's leg describes the listlessness and boredom of a late summer day, as does a gangly teen lazily holding a baseball bat. |
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With an overriding mood of boredom, the boys and girls are almost totally incapable of talking to one another, and all their parents worry about is keeping up appearances. |
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They do this for many reasons, from boredom, to making people think, but most do it for the lulz. |
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Charlotte avoided boredom by following the development of Angria which she received in letters from her brother. |
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Mmmmm. so i started a live journal our of boredom, and then deleted it out of boredom, and now im undeleting it out of even more moredom. |
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For this reason some overfamiliar or recycled accounts provoke boredom or disbelief, and can be made to seem propagandistic. |
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My senior year consisted of serious bouts of life-itus, antsiness and boredom. |
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Boredom is also another reason for youngsters turning to drink. |
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Not only did Cameron find it 'tricky stuff ' but he seemed to reduce one little girl to a state of catatonic boredom. |
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Which is exactly how I plan on staving off boredom this Yom Kippur. |
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Workaholics and those who persistently suffer acute boredom are also targeted, which is good news for me since I've been a workaholic for years. |
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If there is a weakness, it is Fleming's determination to be a completist to the point of boredom. |
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But Boredom, defensively subtitled A Lively History, is in fact a spirited, no-nonsense guide to a surprisingly contentious topic. |
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These were indifferent boredom, calibrating boredom, searching boredom and reactant boredom. |
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Boredom among children is common in those families with a single child. |
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They are painfully debeaked and detoed without anesthetic to offset the destructive effects of overcrowding, boredom and frustration. |
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Other posts noted the boredom of 'hump Wednesday' and even celebrated the President's quirky left-handedness. |
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The songs were probably intended to increase productivity while reducing feelings of boredom. |
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Singing helped to alleviate boredom and to lighten, perhaps, the psychological burden of hard work. |
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The film focused on the boredom and other psychological challenges of wartime. |
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Nine Men's Morris was a game of strategy, which almost certainly involved gambling, and probably relieved the boredom of soldiers having little to do. |
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Consider a person who usually comes home alone after school and eats out of boredom but, on this day, she has a play date with a friend and socializes instead of eating. |
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Beneath the boredom and the glory, there is always the horror, a thumbsucking atrocity perpetrated on a child and writ large ever after to the point of ineffability. |
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N apple a day may not keep the doctor away, but the array of delicious dishes that can be whipped up with Bramley apples will definitely keep the boredom at bay. |
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The many emotions other than horror experienced by soldiers in and out of the front line, including comradeship, boredom, and even enjoyment, have been recognised. |
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That said, Jez's toddlerishly low boredom threshold soon leads them back on to dry land and into the nearest pub to try to cop off with the first girls they can find. |
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Similarly, Test, Wallisch, Allness, and Ripp found that schizophrenic patients frequently consumed alcohol to relieve both boredom and anxiety symptoms. |
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First there were movies, masseurs and meditation, but Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Airways says it has found a new answer to beating the boredom on long flights. |
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For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad. |
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The advice from the sexperts centres more on relationships and preventing boredom rather than the actual mechanics and is surprisingly sweet and, yes, informative. |
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While waiting to be summoned to his unit, Tolkien sank into boredom. |
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This profound boredom, he states, is the basis of the two other boredoms. |
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Boredom is an occupational hazard if you are a checkout girl. |
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