"Boredom, boredom, boredom, boredom, boredom, boredom, boredom, boredom" he says, repeating the word eight times at the beginning of his verse.
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The function of boredom Over the years the psychological research on boredom has been limited.
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Despite the lesson most adults learned growing up — boredom is for boring people — boredom is useful.
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I put "boredom" in quotes because the boredom I'm talking about fosters a heightened sense of presence.
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There&aposs "transient" boredom, which is temporary, and chronic boredom, which lasts an extended period of time.
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If there is a lesson imparted by boredom studies, it is that there are hundreds of kinds of boredom.
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In her 2017 TED Talk titled "How Boredom Can Lead to Your Most Brilliant Ideas, " Zomorodi explains the connection between boredom, creativity and innovation.
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Boredom was typically studied by philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard who describes boredom as a negative experience and evidence that life has no real meaning.
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One felt bad for them, having to endure such excruciating boredom, until one realized that, on a good day anyway, excruciating boredom was their lot.
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With that in mind, you could say that boredom, actual, old-school, staring out a rain-lashed window into the garden boredom, would be a gift.
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" - Spencer, 222 "Hospital laundry; the smells and boredom.
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Can boredom be a generative — even profound — condition?
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People who had the "high boredom" task expressed stronger, polarized political orientations -- particularly those students who leaned left -- after the task, as compared to those doing the "low boredom" work.
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In my own research with Kristen Mark on relationship boredom, according to 3,341 respondents in committed relationships, half reported being either bored or on the brink of boredom in their relationships.
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Boredom, not republicanism, is the real enemy of the monarchy.
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"Good afternoon, John," some 40 students reply in feigned boredom.
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Because what is uniformity but boredom in a phonetic disguise?
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This boredom has inevitably turned into joke and meme creation.
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Boredom, I came to learn, was just unplanned mental relaxation.
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Enter the boredom detector, a patent application filed in May.
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But most cite boredom, not poverty, as the main reason.
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The restaurant industry is literally capitalizing on my consumer boredom.
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I think boredom and #BIGMOVES are once again the culprits.
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"To prove he could do it, and boredom," he said.
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Naturally, that's going to lead to some boredom and injury.
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Doing work like that requires a high tolerance for boredom.
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She's bored, and she complains about boredom all the time.
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"The greater enemy for him is boredom," Mr. Gimson said.
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What you absolutely have to avoid is monotony and boredom.
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It helps me distinguish between thirst, boredom, and actual hunger.
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"We have this phrase in Shambhala, 'cool boredom,'" he said.
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In meditation, you get to practice cool boredom with yourself.
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Rapoport: Boredom is a way of unmasking your sleep tendency.
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"Other people's aversion to boredom can kill me," she said.
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Chad and Zach summed it up with one word ... boredom!!
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In the meantime, they remain in Tijuana, fending off boredom.
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The boredom was excruciating, the separation from his son unspeakable.
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They expressed boredom at three days of painstaking Democratic arguments.
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As the infections continued to mount, boredom turned to fear.
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The Knicks, whether out of despair or boredom, devour coaches.
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Prepare for boredom at winning to set in any minute!
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Get them something predictable and you risk disappointment or boredom.
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Too much boredom, of course, can be bad for children.
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"Boredom lets the devil into your mind," Mr. Mendiola said.
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Boredom teaches us that life isn't a parade of amusements.
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And to think, it all just stemmed from kitchen boredom.
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Thatcher was impervious to boredom if she thought a point mattered, . . .
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"That's part of stakeouts," Ferrara said, several minutes into our boredom.
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Beat boredom by changing your routine or taking a new class.
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I did not want to fall into the circle of boredom.
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I take a long walk to avoid any further boredom shopping.
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As John Biggs wrote about CES 2011, let the boredom begin.
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Is it possible that we've created a new type of boredom?
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The boredom starts after 20, 24 hours, because of the repetition.
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Life's boring enough without having to be reminded of that boredom.
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Thrilling experiences can disrupt your boredom and force you pay attention.
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The word "boredom" didn't even exist until the mid-219th century.
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The students were then asked to rate their level of boredom.
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At some level the sheer boredom and drudgery of managing these
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All in all, not a bad way to beat off boredom.
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They say war is 99 percent boredom and one percent action.
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You don't do a lot of passion eating or boredom eating.
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Boredom, and the need for variety, would alter family life, too.
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When it come to avoiding boredom, who's been your favorite partner?
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It was a lot of boredom, a lot of sitting there.
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I will never have the boredom or repetitiveness of an office.
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Coastal villages are still recovering from the deadly effects of Boredom.
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TV and radio have followed the same pattern – populism over boredom.
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The surrounding suburban strip malls offered little for sale but boredom.
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Draymond Green said the team was combating a new foe: boredom.
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Boredom, mostly, with confusion and a dollop of disappointment and irritation.
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It's kind of boredom or because people want to do things.
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Boredom. I think there's a temptation and desire with human beings.
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"Tattooing came out of boredom," Gibson says of his current career.
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"It's a mixture of boredom and anxiety," said Eli Epstein, 66.
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For many, World War I means boredom, trenches, and confusing geopolitics.
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Mostly stuff that would make your eyes glaze over with boredom.
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One moves through the phases of attention, boredom, and mental departure.
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To me repetition is most like meditation, or like exaggerating boredom.
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But few things really help an insomniac fall asleep like boredom.
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One longtime Avalon resident said that boredom was always a problem.
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Boredom is the subject of "Gypsy" as well as its substance.
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Would you crack a single one of the boredom brigade open?
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Those run the gamut from boredom and irritation to absolute delight.
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Life, for Katherine, is wadded together from boredom, frustration, and insult.
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It smelled like clean desert air and the sweetness of boredom.
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The one risk you won't have to worry about is boredom.
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It also helps with the boredom I still feel whilst cooking.
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But triggers can also be feelings, such as stress or boredom.
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Others referenced loneliness, boredom or simply a lack of shared interests.
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Absolutely. Addiction, depression, physical pain, boredom, self-loathing, anger, sadness, numbness, etc.
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They are all starving, freezing, losing their minds with boredom – and betraying.
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Monotony and boredom can be a threat to any expedition's well-being.
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"I was just alleviating boredom by betting on some matches," he said.
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Cody's wheelhouse is well-defined, but not to the point of boredom.
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"The protests are a new way to break the boredom," he said.
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"A bit of boredom is quite good for you," he told Emily.
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Turns out near-perfect dating technology can't eliminate confusion, boredom, and anxiety.
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A boredom born from a glut of options rather than an absence.
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This listless, fidgeting boredom strikes me as a survival technique, of sorts.
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For much of the 20th century, they write, this affect was boredom.
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Is anyone going to inflict this level of boredom on their viewers?
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Even when her face betrays boredom or disinterest, she is in formation.
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Lyndall Gordon's endured a "boredom that deadens the air around my father".
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Researchers sent them questionnaires that tested them on a boredom-proneness scale.
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You've come to the library as usual out of desperation, yearning, boredom.
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The best way to kill boredom is to stoke discomfort, after all.
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In favor: Eight months of boredom to set up two exciting weeks?
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To take on that level of tedium, that sort of boredom, willingly?
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There is sadness in boredom and desire in Stereolab's chrome-cased opus.
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One thing we did to escape the endless boredom was smoking weed.
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It is impossible to detect any irony or boredom within the marks.
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Keep in touch to update them on your condition and curb boredom.
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It could even suggest a visit to the movies after discerning boredom.
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Voracious. Books were an escape from boredom and loneliness and also worries.
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Like many Marines, he experienced more boredom, hardship and uncertainty than battle.
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Those facts alone should add much-needed perspective to your perpetual boredom.
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But after a while — definitely by the third day — boredom creeps in.
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She added that when our emotional response weakens, boredom begins to build.
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Mostly, Billie Jean is winning while Bobby is keeping boredom at bay.
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Normally, inexplicable boredom is a perfectly acceptable reason to get a haircut.
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Not sure if its out of boredom or restlessness, but it happens.
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Stopping for dead kangaroos offered a somewhat gloomy respite from the boredom.
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The study was partly designed to gauge how humans deal with boredom.
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Without anyone by my side to keep me going, this boredom intensified.
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That experiment was absolutely hell, because boredom is not a comfortable emotion.
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Pure boredom did, too, though, so there was a balance to find.
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What have the adults in your life taught you about managing boredom?
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Immediately. But boredom is something to experience rather than hastily swipe away.
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If I had friends with me, that boredom really ceased to exist.
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The "fighters," however, stare at each other with scornful boredom, then leave.
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But maybe this chaos will be the break from boredom you need?
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And when boredom kicks in, that's when you start thinking about those things.
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This is not a world where boredom occurs, you know what I mean?
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Potato Chips Who hasn't boredom-snacked on some chips just because they're THERE?
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Uranus is electric and unpredictable, zapping boredom and bringing inspiration wherever it goes.
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It's time to say "Hasta la vista" to boredom with this action figure.
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If the answer is "yes," then you're experiencing a case of hair boredom.
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Boredom can be a rare and precious gift in a culture of distraction.
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She told BuzzFeed that Kevin concocted the idea due to summer break boredom.
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When boredom strikes you never know what new trend you may accidentally discover.
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It's not just lack of light; boredom will also seep into your chemistry.
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Start chatting with a guy I met this summer — boredom at its finest.
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The generally rapturous audience treated Mr McDonnell's ideas with boredom verging on indifference.
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Image: Dominic Walliman/YouTubeMath is often considered synonymous with pain, boredom and frustration.
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But that doesn't mean we're staring down a month of total celestial boredom.
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Apple saw their sales growth slow due to consumers' boredom with the iPhone.
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I'm going to humbly suggest, based on personal experience, that you try boredom.
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Start chatting with a guy I met this summer – boredom at its finest.
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High boredom, polarizing politics The authors figured this out using three different experiments.
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We wanted to better understand what function does boredom serve in this circumstance.
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Their access to video games, at least, may relieve the boredom a little.
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But science tells us that boredom is actually useful -- for kids and adults.
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Boredom from wearing the same pair of jeans for the past six months!
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Boredom drove him to torment others, and he liked to make people uncomfortable.
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It has mastered the dramedy genre, and there is rarely room for boredom.
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Boredom is your greatest enemy, Gemini, but you won't face this foe today.
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Boredom is an unusual goal for a work of art to aim for.
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Those hours should be a source of satisfaction — not stress, boredom and frustration.
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These playgrounds can relieve boredom for your pet and increase their activity level.
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But it does feel like wearing a 'Boredom Diffusing Suit' everyday to work.
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Boredom breeds insanity and the most vulnerable— like Bpaet, fall through the cracks.
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"They say that kids need boredom to be creative and intelligent," writes López.
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In today's technology-filled world, it's rare that you ever experience true boredom.
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"The cure for boredom is curiosity," said writer and great wit Dorothy Parker.
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We're told some regulars in Chi-town have reached out complaining of boredom.
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He's promised to, after all, be so presidential "you'll fall asleep" with boredom.
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Her side-eyed gaze radiates a powerful combination of seduction, contempt, and boredom.
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Los Angeles-based artist Dr. Fresch is here to cure your boredom blues.
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Wandering minds and states of boredom gives birth to beautiful on-page procrastination.
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"Boredom was the one thing Philip Johnson would not suffer," Lamster tells us.
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"Social contact helps us stay mentally healthy and fights boredom," its note stated.
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"Data center operations, to me, is 362 days of boredom," Mr. Werner said.
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Online, many are seeking ways to cope with growing anxiety, boredom, and isolation.
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Usually, the worst consequences of strict zuò yuèzi are boredom and body odor.
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"It came from the boredom everyone felt with mutual funds," Dr. Wright said.
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Pauline grudgingly accepts, bringing a kitten and kaleidoscope to break up the boredom.
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That's typical bonefishing: long periods of boredom punctuated by sudden, adrenaline-pumping action.
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We talk about boredom and some of the bummer side effects of treatment.
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I started lurking in Gossip Girl fandom around 23 out of sheer boredom.
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Then "part of it is kind of boredom and sensation-seeking," he says.
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They were often days of boredom, punctuated by bursts of drama and bravado.
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It can express all kinds of things, from menace to boredom to exhaustion.
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" Students, read the entire essay, then tell us: — How do you define "boredom?
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Research has shown that people with attention disorders are particularly prone to boredom.
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Those from students who gave concrete examples and suggestions for using boredom creatively.
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However, her self-portrait work started as an antidote to loneliness and boredom.
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To stave off my boredom, I spent hour after hour on my computer.
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When some chefs get bored, they smoke, drink, or fuck the boredom away.
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One is blowing up a balloon, while the other seems to be examining a painting or floor mat out of sheer boredom (we know that it's out of boredom because the image she's looking at is upside down from her perspective).
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If they are anything like me, they will respond with fascination followed by boredom.
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Women also reported making noise to relieve boredom, fatigue and pain/discomfort during sex.
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Hair pulling, according to one study, can briefly alleviate stress, boredom and negative emotions.
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But we can't let our terror or our boredom get the best of us.
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The seesaw between anxiety and boredom is far too familiar to the modern workforce.
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"I figure it all comes down to boredom," Fabito, now 28, told Business Insider.
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Then again, boredom or just plain apathy might be a factor in other cases.
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Your correspondent's modern mind craved stimulation; the sought-after silence brought only soured boredom.
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To kids not old enough for Snapchat, music is the best alternative to boredom.
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So chewing on a nail may help these people soothe their boredom and irritation.
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Uncontrolled conflict can destroy the group, but without conflict, boredom and apathy set in.
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Nor are feelings of boredom and pointless activity confined to the arena of work.
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Boredom was seriously one of the best parts of my year without the internet.
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Other negative emotional states, including anger, frustration, or boredom, can also trigger these ticks.
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Alcoholics Anonymous calls it irritability, restlessness, discontentedness, boredom, fear, sense of impending doom, inadequacy.
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If you can endure boredom, you can devote yourself to deep and serious projects.
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With nowhere to go all day, they say they suffer from boredom and depression.
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A Gemini's least favorite feeling is boredom, but don't worry: Today will be exciting!
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That approach led to problems of its own, like boredom, repetitive behaviors and depression.
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Boredom compels people to turn off the television, to walk out of the theater.
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They won't take the benefit of the snowdome because they can't stand the boredom.
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It's just that there's no escaping your boredom and your hangover, the next day.
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It killed her boredom and is a challenge of sorts, including a workout challenge.
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The majority, 63%, of American adults experienced boredom at least once every 10 days.
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As I dream, three men with ties loosened out of boredom deliberate my destiny.
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He was a man I matched with on Tinder in a moment of boredom.
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Sometimes he had to deal with police officers; other times he coped with boredom.
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Not only is boredom a buzzkill, but it can be toxic to our partnerships.
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Whatever you do to quell boredom, keep things interesting by altering your behavior often.
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The only thing preventing Oakland from covering the enormous point spread will be boredom.
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He could play dollhouse with my stepdaughter for hours without a hint of boredom.
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The boredom makes you overthink, and the distrust between people and government isn't helping.
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There is another less obvious obstacle in the pursuit of such a streak: boredom.
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That's when, out of boredom and distraction, Payne scrolled to Bumble on her phone.
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More and more took to drugs to escape the war's pressures, aimlessness and boredom.
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I get a text from last night's boredom guy, N., to confirm tonight's plans.
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This tale is jauntier: God, we are told, created humans, who immediately created boredom.
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They vegetate for months, trading crime stories in an atmosphere of boredom and brutality.
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I try to remain attentive, such that no one would suspect my profound boredom.
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They are places of long breaks, of boredom and reverie, of solace and deliberation.
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Boredom set in, with prayer times the only marker to divide the longest days.
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Without something to aim for, you risk getting bored, and boredom can destroy you.
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Soon there will be regular evening entertainment, when before there was often interminable boredom.
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The only problem is, you die of hunger and boredom before it's ever finished.
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You cannot really observe anger or fear or boredom if you cannot observe your breath.
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"Yes, maybe it all comes out of boredom," Mr. Weiss once deadpanned to an interviewer.
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She was totally fearless when it came to risking boredom in pursuit of an issue.
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" Hillary replies: "I was engulfed by boredom, but you gave me someone to talk to.
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During which time any combination of boredom, radiation poisoning, and cancer will likely kill you.
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For me, it was boredom, hatred of the job, and an interest in chemical experimentation.
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"I'm dying of Boredom," complains the young wife, Yelena, in Chekhov's 1897 play Uncle Vanya.
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Big luxury hotel brands face a big new challenge in attracting high-end travelers: boredom.
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As Aunt Lydia explains, June has a way out from months of torture by boredom.
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If the challenge is too great, it promotes anxiety — too easy, and it promotes boredom.
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To allay boredom he spies on the little dramas in each window visible from his.
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He perfectly reflects Michael's boredom back at him, a frustrating facsimile of Michael's dulled outlook.
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I'm just saying that it leaves a lot more room for lag time and boredom.
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To help myself go clear, I decided to lean all the way into that boredom.
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Boredom is a lack of interest, or a lack of things to be interested by.
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Now, if you've ever read the John Podesta emails, they are anodyne to boredom [laughter].
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Chronic boredom is one of the most potent causes of chronic stress and ill-health.
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Boredom surely played a big role, since there wasn't that much solid news to report.
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Reasons included boredom (christ), taking too long (fair) or feeling bad for a partner (never).
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If you can't endure boredom, how do you write a book or enter into reflection?
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But otherwise there was the walk, silence, and the grand, pervasive boredom of it all.
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Polsterer suspects it is related to boredom—something that, he says, a machine cannot experience.
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"Can't Finish What You Started" cited a boredom and antsiness that was familiar to me.
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Then boredom turns to anger, and anger turns to drugs, and drugs turn to excitement!
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You stage excitement but, internally, a mix of jealousy and boredom overwhelm any sincere interest.
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Boredom, in turn, makes you less focused at work and decreases your level of engagement.
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Moments: Sex toys, a cavalryman & a shofar Yes, there can be boredom on the range.
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I have, and it ended in my mother walking out of the room in boredom.
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This is an album that teeters between the boredom and fear that come with corruption.
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You have to traverse boredom before you can get to a state of mental flow.
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In fact, many people would choose pain — in the form of electric shocks — over boredom.
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Arranging this book would be a "most welcome" distraction from the horrible "boredom" of dying.
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I had lots of free time, but I had high-powered explosives that annihilated boredom.
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We spent the weeks before the invasion in Kuwait waiting for orders, fighting off boredom.
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Let Children Get Bored Again Boredom teaches us that life isn't a parade of amusements.
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Ms. Marroquín said the major challenge was boredom, but she believes families are treated well.
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Binge-watching TV shows isn't always the best way to stave off long-term boredom.
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They mostly show the long hours of boredom and tedium that dominate life at war.
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Do not fear boredom; we have internet, TV, radio and our families. Learn. Cook. Paint.
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Who has been such a folk hero of workaday boredom and 9 to 5 drudgery?
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First off, it's important to remember that isolation doesn't just numb your brain with boredom.
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Not even CEO Bob Iger could hide his boredom whenever the camera panned to him!
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This was his first time hearing about artificial intelligence and it instantly cured his boredom.
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The cast dance around each other, but instead of inducing boredom, it keeps viewers hooked.
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"A combination of stress and boredom made me start the event," Ryon Edwards told BBC.
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" Her hankering for adventure was due partly, she said, "to an extremely low boredom threshold.
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B. But in our age of distraction, how do we get citizens to transcend boredom?
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The weeks felt like months, they said, and boredom and uncertainty weighed on them constantly.
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Governance requires enormous patience, a capacity to tolerate boredom and the skill of quiet herding.
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There can be boredom, a sense of isolation and a lot of awkward social questions.
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It had felt very much — from the tone, the pointed selection, the boredom — like harassment.
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Might it be Mr. Bonello's vision of capitalism self-destructing in a fit of boredom?
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With a master's help the hero battles pain, frustration and boredom to realize/transcend himself.
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To stave off boredom, the volunteers watched a soothing BBC nature documentary during each session.
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Label the emotion, for example, are you feeling sadness, boredom, stress, anxiety or even happiness?
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The implied question is: What kind of utter boredom would it be to live forever?
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Instead of brewing in my own boredom while waiting for a train, I launched the app.
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But the bigger culprit is likely boredom—the game is just too simple for most people.
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Leave the boredom of the bedroom and heat up the oven with your own body heat.
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Maybe the only cure for nastiness, injustice, and endless boredom is to burn it all down.
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It has eliminated the boredom of solitude, replacing it with a continuous need for instant gratification.
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Around the corner, car mechanic Ahmed scanned the dusty street as his apprentices slouched in boredom.
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Dig yourself out of the hole of hair boredom and find your next look right here.
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They mourn the violence in their midst, the constant police checks and the boredom of joblessness.
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Being "on the bench" is nice at first, but boredom starts to set in pretty fast.
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Throughout most of watching Phantom Thread, I oscillated between boredom, vague appreciation for craft, and rage.
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He studied air conditioner repair at a local technical college but dropped out due to boredom.
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Men, women and increasingly children wait in an uneasy boredom for their transition into civilian life.
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The situations of frustration or boredom are associated with a high stress state within the amygdala.
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But he holds his ground, answering the camera's aggression with a look of carefully practiced boredom.
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The crew have also thrown themselves into work with enthusiasm—there is nothing worse than boredom.
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So he broke the boredom with purchases: a new car, soccer jerseys, and expensive weekend trips.
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But largely, we're unwilling participants in an experiment in the limits of boredom and societal control.
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And despite the many years he's spent on Miegakure, he claims boredom hasn't been a problem.
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At graduation ceremonies, new recruits would watch the droning speeches of officials with barely disguised boredom.
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The thrill of doing as one likes wears off so quickly, curdling into boredom, even despair.
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They are often isolated and depressed, making any contact a welcome break to the day's boredom.
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This Richard is notably effeminate and moves suddenly between sighing boredom and fits of angry petulance.
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He spends his days distracting himself from constant fear and boredom by watching old American movies.
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Sitting still for eight hours is strange and new, and at times, the boredom is maddening.
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Their purpose extends beyond staving off boredom; they build camaraderie by breaking down the individual ego.
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No empty hours in which to find boredom, or to wallow in longing or anxiety. Activity!
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He was open and unapologetic about his many procedures, undertaken, he said, mostly out of boredom.
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Meddling may also be a sign of boredom or lack of purpose in one's own life.
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Boredom, restlessness, and curiosity color interactions that form bonds crossing boundaries of age, ethnicity, and gender.
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An acceptance of boredom as something to be worked through, not something to be staved off.
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Molleindustria makes free games designed to cure boredom and sometimes raise your level of social consciousness.
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"Boredom the winner in Singapore," the team website declared in a headline over their race report.
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They might have tried a few others first, though, or just done it out of boredom.
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In fact, boredom is a top reason for addicts to relapse on their drug of choice.
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Watching the entire season of Iron Fist left me at the crossroads of fatigue and boredom.
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To stave off boredom between communications checks, Vescovo watched films or history documentaries on his phone.
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I'm not talking about boredom, though that is part of the broader picture of maintaining creativity.
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To fend off boredom, I imagine, Mr. Yegen fills his manti with both lamb and beef.
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The evening crawled by in two-minute increments, long stretches of boredom punctuated by strong emotion.
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Anything to stave off the boredom and anxiety of being home, unpaid, during a Chicago winter.
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A simple way to get started training this ability is to frequently expose yourself to boredom.
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The takeaway: Approaching tasks in imaginative ways could prevent boredom from sabotaging your (metaphorical) lunch hour.
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Also, lots of books always, a baseball mitt and ball keep the boredom and blues away.
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Books of The Times There's nothing like political and economic upheaval to make boredom look good.
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With each passing page, I was more likely to groan not from pleasure but from boredom.
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Lovely Venus opposes rebellious Uranus, creating a cosmic boredom-buster and bringing change to your routine.
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Monogamous couples move into nonmonogamy for all kinds of reasons — unmet sexual desire, boredom, illness, curiosity.
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Indeed, many scientists believe that boredom is one of the most serious challenges facing future spacefarers.
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In part, this reflects the rappers' outsized ambition and latent boredom with simple symbols of excess.
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Ask many in the Orthodox community for whom spiritual boredom is a product of rote observance.
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In-flight boredom can often be soothed by the screen planted on the seat before you.
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Of course, it's not really the boredom itself that's important; it's what we do with it.
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But unless we are faced with a steady diet of stultifying boredom, we never learn how.
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The central theme of that film [is] getting lost in the eternal boredom of eternal life.
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In a way, it's their girly, teenage boredom that reflects a passive, sleepy protest against violence.
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"I came up with the idea to write Solitaire for Windows out of boredom, really," Cherry said.
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While most people doodle out of boredom, designers sketch as the first step in their creative process.
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He spoke plainly about the boredom of prison—he had few visitors and few pastimes besides writing.
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The idea is to alleviate boredom for animals stuck at home alone for long periods of time.
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They lack variety in tone, tempo, and energy, ultimately slowing down the pace until boredom sets in.
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That's when I realized that my boredom with sweaters happened because I was playing by the rules.
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Sure, there were moments of magical madness, but otherwise the time was a yawning interregnum of boredom.
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" Variety wrote that "when Lohan is offscreen, her Beach Club is an exercise in reality-TV boredom.
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He just sold her the glitter nail polish she wanted with that same blank look of boredom.
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In one scene, she peels potatoes for several consecutive minutes, frustration and boredom visible on her face.
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So for most of human history, loneliness or boredom were just accepted features of the human condition.
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But it's not the first technology that people turned to in order to relieve boredom and loneliness.
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It's unclear from the tests how big or how small a role boredom plays in political decisions.
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A play of greed, decay, venality, beauty, longing, hidden meanings, coincidences, love, terror, mundanity, suffering, boredom, loneliness.
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Working in adult entertainment, most people quickly develop a kind of boredom or disgust with pornographic videos.
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The exquisite boredom of the second half of Downton Abbey approaches the provincialism of George Eliot's Middlemarch.
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But as trite as it may sound, within this boredom, I tried to cultivate kindness and patience.
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I realize that it's not boredom, it's people being attentive and respectful, which I appreciate beyond measure.
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Kanye and North West's boredom-induced sleep is the correct response to high-end baby store shopping.
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Even at the risk of a certain amount of repetitious boredom, "Reservoir 13" is nothing like this.
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To move through Solstad's world is to be continually shifting between boredom and involvement, imprisonment and freedom.
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Thank goodness for podcasts to keep boredom to a minimum as I drove back to the city.
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"That boredom can quickly sap willpower and motivation [and] diminish self-care and resilience," write the authors.
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Exceptionality might fade to proficiency; motivation might curdle into frustration or boredom; interests might lose their appeal.
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Operators rotate machinery frequently so that their body doesn't get sore and to alleviate fatigue and boredom.
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All the days blurred into one, and I could find nothing to distract me from the boredom.
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The initial effect may be slightly repugnant—an "urgent dryness," indeed, like a concentrated essence of boredom.
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Anyway, IG this week was like a shot of Benadryl—you could fall asleep from the boredom.
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Udemy also suggested that employers can reduce boredom by tailoring educational opportunities ("learning paths") for each employee.
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Other times I spend too much money and too many hours to achieve only boredom and hangovers.
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I wondered if it would be worth it to smoke my lunchtime cigarette now, out of boredom.
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"It's a mixture of boredom and anxiety," resident Eli Epstein, 66, said of life in the zone.
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The flaws and limits inherent in overexposure are boredom and attenuation of message — not weakening of power.
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Unfortunately the top divisions of college football and basketball have become predictable to the point of boredom.
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One of the frequent complaints when theorizing about possible immortality on earth is that of constant boredom.
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Is it boredom, lack of motivation or just wanting to make sure you're doing the exercises right?
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Spending too much time in the same environment, as we all can, can cause a boredom buildup.
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You can also keep a variety of livestreams on in the background to fight the quarantine boredom.
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Most of our seven-month deployment included long periods of boredom and stress, punctuated by frantic activity.
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But the zombie gore and the verbal pepper is sprayed quickly enough to keep boredom at bay.
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A few passengers smoked on the terraces outside their cabins, gazing down in boredom as we docked.
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To combat boredom and boost mental health, the staff are also required to exercise at 10 a.m.
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But even if we restrict ourselves to just phone design, the case for boredom doesn't hold water.
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She would shake her head when she saw other students, sick of the boredom, go home early.
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Working from home presents a whole batch of new challenges, and boredom is definitely one of them.
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Once you've truly settled into the anesthetizing effects of boredom, you find yourself en route to discovery.
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Sure, boredom does lead to creativity and self sufficiency, but it just isn't the same with technology.
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Hours spent digging felt like days and days like weeks, though not because of boredom or drudgery.
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Boredom enhances creativity and problem solving, whereas constant input dulls imagination - even if that includes creative classes.
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My third finisher was the lovely "The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction" (136 pages, Bloomsbury Academic, $3083), in which a philosophy professor named Adam S. Miller looks at some of the favored themes — despair, distraction, indifference, boredom — in Wallace's writing.
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What if boredom is a meaningful experience—one that propels us to states of deeper thoughtfulness or creativity?
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For him, the group was a place for like-minded people and he was there out of boredom.
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It was yet another semi-solution — an alleviation of wardrobe-induced boredom that involves time, effort and scrolling.
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It's too hot to walk to Whole Foods, so I open a bottle of wine out of boredom.
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Some of the characters of a teen involved in Satanic activity, for example, are intelligence, creativity, and boredom.
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I had one-on-ones with hiring gurus to free myself from the boredom of post-Olympic life.
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Some of the top concerns included losing social interactions at work, a loss of purpose, boredom and depression.
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Though it has a reputation as a war zone, Gaza is more often a place of grinding boredom.
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That, and the occasional roll call outdoors, were almost the only things punctuating the boredom of their detention.
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While you're quite loyal, you cannot tolerate emotional boredom well and a shallow connection can kill your relationships.
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"There's fatigue, there's boredom," says one former operator, who left Uber recently and requested not to be named.
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The top reasons millennials cite as driving their spending: friends and family, followed by boredom and social media.
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But South Dakota State sees your boredom and wants to remind you what it's all about: trick plays.
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In a moment of boredom, I started scribbling an image on the wall and I left it there.
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The 41 detainees left in Guantanamo Bay live a nightmare existence of forced feedings, legal limbo, and boredom.
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"The level of boredom among children in camps for the displaced is tremendous," said UNICEF spokesman Patrick Rose.
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Becoming comfortable in my discomfortI used to flinch away from all forms of discomfort: pain, uncomfortable conversations, boredom.
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It was mostly out of boredom, but also out of genuine curiosity after hearing all the success stories.
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Sometimes, what appears to be depression is caused by boredom, isolation and a lack of suitable stimulating activities.
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Worst because of physical and emotional rigor: mountain passes, chigger bites, dog attacks, heat and humidity, and boredom.
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Thus began a seemingly interminable night that the stranded passengers described as one of fear, boredom and panic.
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They align an external trigger (the ping) with an internal trigger (a feeling of boredom, uncertainty, insecurity, etc.).
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The teen-agers in the barn goof off, braiding their hair together and miming killing themselves from boredom.
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Nonfiction PLAY ANYTHINGThe Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of GamesBy Ian Bogost266 pp.
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Her works bring pictorial expression to the fatigue of the daily grind mixed with Kyung Me's debilitating boredom.
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I kicked away the crutch to see how everyday life — social awkwardness, boredom, all of it — really felt.
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In addition, many report that their BFRBs provide relief from negative emotions, including boredom, tension, anxiety and frustration.
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He tried locking himself in his house and not talking to anyone, but the boredom drove him crazy.
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People choose to leave their houses because of boredom, she said, but that decision can risk her life.
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Lots of artists are pitching in to relieve the boredom everyone's experiencing in the wake of this craziness.
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Whether it's a product of their circumstances (boredom, booze, extreme isolation) or more supernatural causes remains in question.
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So we come to associate the feelings like calming that spike of anxiety or boredom with the device.
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Maybe he wanted to make another Moon, but the producers just wanted a straight shot at fantasy boredom.
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But now I long for boredom, and writing is the only way I can hope to achieve it.
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Mr. Healey wants to stop potential boredom and also to help pay for the upkeep of the army.
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So when boredom strikes, days, weeks and possibly months in, it's going to call for some serious creativity.
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No visitors are allowed, but there activities like dance classes to fight the boredom and keep people active.
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Although eliciting boredom may be the point — look, bonking can be as stultifying as working for the I.R.S.!
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Experts say this strategy helps with talent retention because people are less likely to leave out of boredom.
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For instance, empirical research suggest that employees surf the web as a response to boredom and unclear instructions.
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Often the key to maximizing the fun and minimizing the cold and boredom is how well you prepare.
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But hearing "Jingle Bells" for the millionth time can lead to annoyance, boredom, and even distress, researchers say.
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They sully pure white snow with cigarette ash and keep boredom at bay with scarcely secret love affairs.
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Signing up for The Drive-Thru has almost been proven to reduce the risk of stress and boredom.
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The initial pressure of the morning had given way to boredom among the extras and start-up employees.
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In an age of constant distraction where boredom is easily gratified, maybe the solution isn't to gratify it.
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It is achieved gradually, through hard work and periods of necessary rest and what feels like interminable boredom.
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The owner should also address the excessive whining and barking, which could be signs of stress or boredom.
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Trump's boredom with international policy should sadden and concern policymakers interested in preserving and expanding American influence abroad.
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Once this became apparent, the president sat in boredom, picking at vegetables in his bowl, sipping buckwheat tea.
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Those who left cited concerns about health and safety, boredom and swarms of tiny biting insects called midges.
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Other online fan art communities are finding their own ways through an unprecedented time of stress and boredom.
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When you reach your breaking point, boredom teaches you to respond constructively, to make something happen for yourself.
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The ability to handle boredom, not surprisingly, is correlated with the ability to focus and to self-regulate.
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An idea that might work for this would be 15 minutes of mandatory "boredom" every day in school.
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If you're surprised or resistant when you and your partner experience conflict or boredom, you'll make it worse.
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He seemed more interested in instilling boredom in his viewers to reveal the power structures behind mass media.
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And we want it to follow us everywhere we go, collecting data, and staving off the creep of boredom.
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I guess boredom is the closest I have come to relaxed in a while, if that counts for anything.
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"There's not much to do, and the internet offered me opportunities and a way to cure boredom," he said.
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" Crowder, asked if the team was getting bored with just six games left in the regular season, said, "Boredom?
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It can be a place of violence and austerity, of hope and comedy, but also of neglect and boredom.
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This is phase two: Full Metal Jacket, the knife's edge of boredom and terror that is patrolling hostile territory.
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That's worth the price tag and the hours of boredom I'm going to have to endure during the show.
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That means they may feel boredom, rage, and excitement, but don't really experience emotions like guilt, empathy, or gratitude.
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"I feel like I could sum up my days in three words: boredom, abuse and rape," Smart tells her.
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HB: Ah, the President himself is bored by the boredom strategy, which I guess is a sign it's working.
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Over and over again, the researchers reported indifference and boredom when it came to personal development and basic socializing.
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It's also probably best for those dealing with particular issues like low libido, boredom, or dissatisfaction in the bedroom.
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He's been retired for 15 years, and is spending his retirement making and selling sausages to stave off boredom.
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The boredom of playing out the meaningless string gives way in a hurry to the challenge of fitting in.
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The company sees a future when passengers can endure long car rides free of boredom and without car sickness.
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This boredom manifests itself as a restlessness—less being "bored with life," more constantly waiting for life to happen.
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Stephen Lund took the boredom-rite-of-passage, doodling, to a new level by evolving it into a sport.
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I eventually discovered new ways to waste time and fill the boredom void, and that kind of ruined everything.
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So perhaps in our quest to end boredom our creativity is being stunted, and we're actually becoming more boring.
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"Can your hypothalamus curl up and die from boredom?" she asks her roommates at the beginning of the episode.
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It's pretty obvious that in the one teacher, 30 kids-type classroom, there's a lot of boredom in there.
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Molleindustria and Harry Giles make free games designed to cure boredom and sometimes raise your level of social consciousness.
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They write songs about romance and boredom and feelings in a way that's understated but also full of depth.
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Without it, the game doesn't even achieve the dread it so desperately wants to imbue, instead delivering pure boredom.
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Good. You'll be happy to hear a new track from Tyler, the Creator's forthcoming album Flower Boy, called "Boredom".
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Molleindustria and Harry Giles make free games designed to cure boredom and sometimes raise your level of social consciousness.
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The basic act of exploration in Breath of the Wild is exhilarating enough that boredom never fully creeps in.
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Liam Hannon, Liam's Lunches of Love Liam Hannon, 11, found a creative and generous way to combat summer boredom.
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The shared frustration, daily victories and Disney theatrics passed our time, but the mind-numbing boredom was never ending.
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Many— worn down by loneliness, boredom and the threat of violence if they try to refuse — accept the invitation.
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By the summer of her wedding year, Diana's boredom became clear to visitors to the Scottish retreat of Balmoral.
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But, boredom soon sets in, after we pack the same Mason jar lunch for a week or two straight.
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One family spent $16,000 on a swing set for their children to fight boredom while holed up at home.
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Driven by boredom, Wie said with a laugh, she cut her long black hair and became a platinum blonde.
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During Demirkapi's freshman year, a mixture of boredom and aimless ambition led him to start investigating the companies' interfaces.
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Each pill brings on a euphoric eight-hour blast, one that zaps boredom and can make repetitive labor pleasurable.
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Not everyone gets high or smokes, but every inmate jerks off, out of loneliness or horniness or sheer boredom.
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Fickle focus, complacency, boredom — take your pick: All of it applied at various points over the past 10 months.
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Maybe it's the boredom already getting to me, but I've started bonding with my parents more, my mom especially.
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He spoke to me with a kind of pro forma monotone and a hint of boredom, which he acknowledged.
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You can join the hundreds of other people stocking up on sex toys to stave off the quarantine boredom.
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Reader's Notebook Say you were bold enough to gather together seven of the recent or upcoming books about boredom.
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And after all the boredom and the waiting, I'm very confident in their ability to deliver an accurate count.
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What we don't feel is the boredom that must surely be part of the story of his long afterlife.
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So in many ways, the sun-streaked conflict and misty boredom of "Siesta Key" is preordained, and also comforting.
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Maybe there is no hidden secret, and maybe, just maybe, channeling our boredom productively is how we get ahead.
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She spent most of her workday browsing the internet, she told me, before quitting last month out of boredom.
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That's a whole lot of relationship boredom on both sides of the bed, with women seemingly bored more quickly.
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In the novel's last hundred pages or so, there's a sense of palpable exhaustion and boredom to the narration.
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And how can anyone — child or adult — claim boredom when there's so much that can and should be done?
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Helen Sloan/HBO Was it really just last week when we expressed some boredom with the goings-on in Westeros?
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That boredom may lead you to try novel and increasingly exotic forms of sex—including sex that incorporates fetish objects.
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Overall, Hastings believes he's in the business of "turning money into joy" and "eliminating boredom and loneliness" more than anything.
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Frustrated creators and users may flee the platform if it no longer provides the outlet for their creativity or boredom.
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But it was his boredom that looked mad cute, like it was some kind of accessory that he was working.
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He was once just a regular kid in Ohio, Paul explains, who fell into making videos out of sheer boredom.
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I'm so boredom other I know Jesus Chris Kraus Marie is it why you aren't going to wait for form?
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When capitalism destroyed the absorptive feeling of boredom, Fisher then argues, it destroyed our ability to be absorbed at all.
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It wasn't until three years later, when my wife joined me in early retirement, that my boredom began to dissipate.
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Letterman subverted the format's tradition of geniality with his own grouchy personality, not fearing to display boredom with a guest.
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But for a few glorious months back in 2012, boredom was my guide to getting shit done and living right.
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We were able to get factory workers' experiences of boredom, and gold miners' experiences of the first telegram they received.
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The big difference is that she did it to herself (most likely out of boredom), not to her helpless child.
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Boredom may sound like a pejorative term, but in social psychology it's an actual phenomenon that should be taken seriously.
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The authors argue that results demonstrated that experimentally induced boredom may trigger people to gravitate toward more extreme political beliefs.
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Going to sea is all about hardship, sacrifice and boredom—"SSDD", or same shit, different day, as Filipino sailors say.
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Because of their intellectual and emotional capacities, cetaceans are highly susceptible to the adverse effects of chronic boredom in captivity.
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It was an hour or so into Chasm when my yawns and pauses to check Twitter suggested a problem: boredom.
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Horrible bosses tend to top the list, but boredom, burnout, and busywork that knows no bounds are also viable reasons.
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In previous years, the senior staff of the White House, while not exactly anonymous, has been cloaked securely in boredom.
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And the look of perfectly detached boredom on his face as he did it will haunt me until I die.
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Cues, such as boredom, hunger, an activity, a time or an emotion trigger us to do certain actions or routines.
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In the never-ending stream news cycle there is only one thing that can save us from boredom: news bloopers.
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So you just sit there in crippling boredom, literally counting down the minutes until you get out of entertainment purgatory.
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And, judging from his last encounter with the Vindicators, we're predicting he'll become the super-villain out of sheer boredom.
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Keeping up correspondence with these guys was not just a way to alleviate boredom, but also a fine financial hustle.
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Lacking other evidence, the hookup could easily be a one-off, born out of boredom and lack of other options.
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A patrol atop an observation post goes from boredom to terror in seconds when the post comes under Taliban fire.
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The moment asks players to empathize with Jayden, encouraging recognition of their own boredom in similar situations outside the game.
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She is so bored in New Jersey at one point that she is reduced to researching "boredom" on the Internet.
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Several students assembled by the school to talk to a reporter said they had experienced bullying or boredom before enrolling.
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"We risk frustration and boredom turning into violence and crime, or political and religious extremism flourishing," he said last month.
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To placate your boredom, quite a few alternative, online-first brands have swooped in to offer creative and interesting solutions.
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I need something to watch to take my mind off the inherent boredom of being on a treadmill, elliptical, etc.
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Was it boredom, or did he want to ignite the fires of internet chaos and watch us absolutely lose it?
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As for Miranda, can someone please get this man another Broadway deal before he posts more boredom-induced cursed content.
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Luckily, there are a ton of deals on boredom-curing items: How does a new PlayStation or Xbox One sound?
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The sounds are recorded from an actual prison; the recollections of fear, boredom, and despair are those of real prisoners.
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While Spotify streams are down, TikTok appears to have benefited from a nationwide boredom boom, according to some (unconfirmed) numbers.
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Life inside low-key lockdown is a battle against boredom, isolation, anxiety and the fear of no end in sight.
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The man again shows his boredom with the situation by dropping his arms briefly before moving in for the kill.
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Overly familiar with the class routine, my excitement had been replaced with boredom, a nattering emotion that affects us all.
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A 2016 study estimated that 63 percent of us suffer from boredom at least once over a 10-day period.
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Though it can be a downer when boredom taints the pleasure in our lives, hedonic adaptation serves an evolutionary purpose.
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When Ms. Rudolph's judge agrees to hear the characters' case, she says that she's only doing it out of boredom.
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But Ro's corresponding resentment of Susan's full family life means she can't empathize, either, with her friend's boredom and despair.
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And right now — facing the uncertainties, terror, loneliness, and boredom of a deadly pandemic — that's exactly what we all need.
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There are some people who spend money out of boredom, out of anger, and when they are feeling too optimistic.
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They gave themselves over mentally, especially during assignment meetings, to mischief and absurdity and boredom-breaking and corrosive antireligious sentiment.
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Yet we get the sense that these amateur raids are conducted as much to alleviate boredom as provide pocket money.
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The draft system means that there is no risk of boredom, no fear that it might all become too familiar.
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" What he calls "post-human" buildings — whose boredom he finds "hypnotic" and "banality breathtaking" — represent, he says, a "new sublime.
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The boys are driven to destroy their neighbor's home out of a vague mix of hubris, ambition, boredom and rage.
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And I have followed the growth of DeFi with … well … eye-watering boredom, along with some dismay, until this week.
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There it was, a perfectly packed 4.5-inch-long computer designed to pulverize boredom like a drill through your skull.
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Her cousin never showed boredom, though, and was always engaged, each time inventing endearing names for Agnes and suggesting activities.
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I find it far easier to tolerate the whistling emptiness of boredom than the casino rattle of too much stimulation.
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Boredom is a good thing, and although it seems intolerable, it is essential to living a full and balanced life.
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Not only does this stave off exercise boredom but it also rapidly builds his skills in the new language. 4.
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"Sometimes I get really bored when I do just an hour of cardio, so sometimes I struggle with boredom," she explained.
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Both, like the Dutch, revealed boredom with the "same again please" served up by successive governments in the past half century.
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But such technocratic boredom was always the goal for Europe, and it is an infinite improvement over bombing each others' cities.
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Bad coffee, capes that make you feel like an inpatient, dog-eared weekly magazines you flick through out of sheer boredom.
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But perhaps more importantly, it can serve to limit the distractions that cause anxiety and the latency that leads to boredom.
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So you have this element of excitement combined with an element of boredom, and we didn't know when it would finish.
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In the spirit of starting anew (and avoiding boredom), we're rounding up our favorite, super easy tricks for drinking more water.
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The pace precludes boredom, and the loss of Kushner's digressions about American history won't be felt too keenly by French viewers.
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Korins says that in order to become inspired, it's essential that he let his mind wander to the brink of boredom.
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I made it about five minutes before the boredom and lack of change in mental state was too excruciating to continue.
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But instead of giving in to meal boredom in 2018, we're going to try a fresher food concept: the Healthyish recipe.
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" In her words, boredom is an "intense experience of time untouched by beauty, pleasure, comfort, and all other temporal salubrious sensations.
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A new app from David Barnard, the developer behind the popular Launch Center Pro, promises to be the cure for boredom.
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I grab a mug of hot water and make a cup of blackberry tea, glad to escape boredom snacking this morning.
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To the extent that boredom is a lack of stimulation, we have cured it, and this isn't necessarily a good thing.
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Here are six things you can do to avoid boredom the next time you're stuck on a major layover in Queens.
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"Sometimes I get really bored when I do just an hour of cardio, so sometimes I struggle with boredom," she explains.
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Scorpio season begins on October 23, and the sun opposes Uranus—boredom is your enemy and you're looking for thrills, Cancer.
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Running with your puppy is a great way to bond with him, wile away his boredom, and keep you both healthy.
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In fact, Kim says he lacked a sense of purpose once he achieved his financial goal, which then led to boredom.
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I think it was mostly out of fun, or maybe boredom, but I could definitely see myself as the thieving villain.
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Since a book or film is not in the cards, blindly groping for succor in your boredom can be a danger.
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Most of the respondents want to hold a job in their later years to keep their mind sharp and stymie boredom.
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Mr. Hirszman describes the songs, which relieved boredom and shaped the rhythm and movements of the work, as "endangered" cultural products.
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Indeed, much of the time, the refugees are living in a state of boredom, though the doc itself is never boring.
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To someone like Gio—married, with a son and some good sense—boredom seems to play to the tune of fatherhood.
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Their new record Welcome the Worms is a take-once-daily cure for boredom, packing together unbridled catchiness and witty lyrics.
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If working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic has you feeling cabin fever, isolation or boredom, NASA has some advice.
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The pad is no different to the one my dad would point at when I complained of boredom four decades previously.
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The good news is that understanding the connection between hedonic adaptation and boredom can help us maneuver around this "stuck" feeling.
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"The way I think about boredom is coming to a moment with no plan other than just to be," she said.
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A 2012 study published in Health Psychology found that more people reported eating in response to boredom than any other emotion.
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They "received my theory of Kremlin barn burning with yawns of conspicuous boredom, oozing wispy blank stares," he wrote to himself.
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We can come out of these months as nervous wrecks, having spent the time alternating between moments of boredom and terror.
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Insecurity and boredom may play a part, but she emphasizes the empowerment of doing something naughty your parents don't know about.
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Then you need RelaxMyDog, a music and video subscription service designed to help dogs overcome anxiety, loneliness, stress, boredom, and hyperactivity.
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The soliloquy was fixed in the architecture of his brain, ready to serve in a moment of boredom or underground anxiety.
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At first, holiday music can be uplifting, but after a certain period of time, it can cause boredom — and even distress.
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Another approach to resolving their boredom could be simply paying attention to the trial, but I realize that's a big ask.
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My water bottle is dangling from my pointer finger, which means that I'm going to drink from it of boredom alone.
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If only there were a puzzle toy library for exchanging Nina Ottosson Interactive Toys so boredom would never be an issue.
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The young princesses while away the boredom of their confinement by falling in love with the estate's handsome gamekeeper, Billy Denton.
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And not even eight years or so on Europa and his terminal boredom with living in a utopia can dissuade him.
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But when it doesn't work, you end up dropping the book in boredom and going back to the music you love.
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But now, the physical world excites me, too — the one that has room for boredom, idle hands and space for thinking.
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Ratings have plummeted as candidates go round and round on the same issues, especially health care, leaving audiences paralyzed with boredom.
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Being bored all the time would obviously be a drag but boredom has a useful place in the life of a creator.
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Alone, in a cabin with a flushless, eco-friendly composting toilet called "The Hog," the threat of boredom began to close in.
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Her mother had smoked, and the smell of it, of Pall Malls especially, calmed her when boredom led to an anxious jitter.
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Then check out this boredom cure that lets you install and run Windows XP on an iPhone 7 without jailbreaking the device.
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JFK is the main gateway to the world's capital of consumerism, yet scarcely any retail therapy is available to treat travellers' boredom.
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After three terms of conservative leadership, the mood for change was as much a product of boredom as of anti-establishment zeal.
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I've been there with two idle hands, a pocket full of money, and a lot of boredom…it leads to nothing good.
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Now, however, we're so consumed with our phones that we're not reaching for a pack of gum to stave off our boredom.
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For Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, Netflix, Prime/Twitch, YouTube each now offers a better alternative to boredom than TV for anyone under 30.
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With so many long weekends and holidays coming up, home projects are great for killing boredom and keeping your creative juices flowing.
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He and other refugees said the boredom and lack of educational opportunities led to widespread depression among the teenagers, even suicidal behavior.
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To escape the boredom of work and adulthood and slip into a moment that feels a little freer, a little more transcendent?
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We need LMFAO's Party Rock Anthem blowing up our eardrums so we can zone out and alleviate the painful boredom of running.
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Ellis told Refinery29 he was Tindering with a fidget spinner in his mouth when he invented the contraption to quell his boredom.
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New themed sections focusing on overlooked and under-represented artists save the fair from the crushing boredom of normal blue-chip dealership.
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Whether a sign of boredom or resentment or both, Mr. Bieber's 100-mile stare was the steadiest feature of his performance here.
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But poor Howard's boredom was analog: all he could do was look out the classroom window at the actual clouds rolling by.
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The days when Brooklyn meant "baseball, boredom and bad breath," to quote a dig apocryphally attributed to Barbra Streisand, are long gone.
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We are then faced with a remaining life of oppressive boredom, or replacing our fundamental desires and radically changing who we are.
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I took the ride out of boredom and curiosity — I just had to see how this person had a rating of 4.55.
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One of the best ways to overcome the daily boredom and bureaucratic limbo of life in this Kafkaesque camp is to create.
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Air travel can be uncomfortable, with long hours spent in small seats, often-crummy food — if you're fed at all — and boredom.
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Boredom is also risked in "-55," a solo that the Moroccan choreographer Raduoan Mriziga performed at New York Live Arts on Thursday.
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At this age, when I'm not hungover or too ill to move, I'm bouncing off the walls—so boredom escapes me, clearly.
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The product of a fifth grader's boredom 11-year-old Ruby Kate Chitsey spends a lot of her summer at nursing homes.
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Gretchen was the one who had the diplomacy to get them to see their folly without incurring their wrathful boredom against me.
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L had a lot of questions — the big, philosophical kinds that led him back to the Baptist church he'd fled in boredom.
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Our kids can sustain a conversation, cope with fleeting moments of boredom and last a birthday party without demanding a video game.
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What better medication for boredom or anxiety could there be than to run off to an adventure on the romantic high seas?
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Ms. Dodgen-Magee encourages people to host boredom parties, during which a host invites over a few friends to … be bored together.
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When we merely ask our students to be passive recipients of test-driven content, we should expect boredom as the dominant result.
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Mackenzie Boone from Wilmington, N.C., says games fight boredom: Ever since I was little I have hated being bored in the car.
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Watching this film, I found myself thinking about how much of Austen's satire is directed at the boredom of the upper classes.
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News accounts tell of them snatching surreptitious cat naps and trying to sneak chewing tobacco onto the floor to relieve the boredom.
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But maybe our mother feared the consequences of our boredom, and so she made arrangements to give some variety to the week.
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WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — The middle of the week is when boredom might set in for some solvers, especially those who solve every day.
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Passengers on board had previously shared pictures of lives in quarantine, including their room service and the ways they coped with boredom.
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In September 1990, the wait to get into Liberia drove Denis so mad with boredom and frustration that he considered flying home.
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The dynamic culminates in Astrid and Payton throwing insults at each other across as lunch table as Elliott looks on with boredom.
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"Boredom and having nothing to do contributes to having an array of behavioral symptoms, agitation, aggressiveness, apathy, rejection of care," she said.
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This Rainbow Brite-inspired keyboard is your secret weapon to defeating the King of Shadows — or at least the King of Boredom.
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Yet, Mr. Lake still finds himself fighting boredom with school and struggling to get excited for class, except for his photography assignments.
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Strict timetables, generic lesson plans and constant assessments are, for many, more likely to inspire boredom than the next great business idea.
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But now he's 57—ancient, by Hollywood's standards—and Grant has, whether through late-career boredom or necessity, been quietly branching out.
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Out of boredom and a desire to contribute, Leigh would drive vehicles for the team while I managed radios at the outpost.
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The most powerful antidote to boredom is creativity, and there are multiple ways to nurture the imagination within ourselves and our children.
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Only a few short decades ago, during the lost age of underparenting, grown-ups thought a certain amount of boredom was appropriate.
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The current team at the The Prisoner seems very aware of the boredom and exclusivity that has historically turned many young people off.
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We get a rush when an attack swarm on Twitter fills that void of boredom that almost convinced you to do something productive.
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Years of peace and prosperity mean that the old linger and the middle-aged flourish, while the young inherit only boredom and aimlessness.
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And I understand boredom or not connecting after however many years of marriage or a relationship, but that's where the work comes in.
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"There's actually a lot of historical precedent for boredom being a huge factor in vote choice, and actually in building extremism," Brin said.
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People don't trust silence, they don't trust boredom, they are so self-conscious…and if you just shut up, you'll have an idea.
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Now, as the industry moves to self-driving cars and drivers become passengers, they face a new problem: how to tackle passengers' boredom?.
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Now, as the industry moves to self-driving cars and drivers become passengers, they face a new problem: how to tackle passengers' boredom.
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If we could get a desk plant that satisfies our green thumb while simultaneously curing our random midday boredom, we're all for it.
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In case you missed it, Google actually rolled out the "I'm Feeling Curious" search trick last fall as something of a boredom buster.
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Unlike Poppe, though, Högel is said to committed the murders "out of boredom" and a desire to puff up his reputation at work.
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As the days passed, his initial fear of failing to survive gave way to the elation of self-confidence followed by eventual boredom.
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Not only can boredom lead to deep thinking, it can help kids practice perseverance, or pushing through uncomfortable moments without stimulation or distraction.
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Driven by a mix of high hopes, boredom, and curiosity, I visited a Hare Krishna temple in Laguna Beach, California during high school.
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So instead of surrendering to boredom, I started to think about the cartoons I would make about the interrogation and the prison itself.
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Eventually, I'll probably fall away from the apps myself, whether from their fall from grace, my own serious relationship, or just plain boredom.
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The whole experience is mostly just waiting for something interesting to happen, which means bouncing back-and-forth between boredom and creeping menace.
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In one case, a boss chose not to promote someone because they were more reactive towards advancing their career, and complaining of boredom.
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Working for a pizzeria in Detroit, he'd drive late nights on desolate inner city streets, smoking pot hoping to keep boredom at bay.
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Boredom. The derelict stadiums are part of the Elliniko Camp — a complex supervised by the Greek government with help from several humanitarian organizations.
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The enemy design is occasionally creepy, but the AI patterns are predictable to the point of boredom, undercutting any sense of a threat.
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Rather, most respondents said they want to continue working in a paid position to keep their mind sharp (72%) and stymie boredom (67%).
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Partly this has to do with the resilience of loneliness and boredom in our lives, despite our access to so-called social media.
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I pass through the labyrinths, corridors, see familiar faces, select and discard classes and activities, fluctuate between unquenchable curiosity and heavy, inert boredom.
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The crowd relentlessly shit on both men, booing nearly non-stop, with the only respite being an unsettling boredom rippling through the stadium.
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" She told me, "Boredom and a sense of uselessness and inadequacy—these are human failings that lead you to just want to withdraw.
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Most of these items were bought in either a moment of panic, when I was seeking a fashion fix, or out of boredom.
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Out of boredom, many have already gone off to fight in Syria, but don't even know what they're going to be fighting for.
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You are going to assess the faces of every single person stood before and behind you in that queue, out of sheer boredom.
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Eventually, he senses my boredom and asks if I would be interested in going out for lunch whenever I was back in Shanghai.
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When these planets connect on November 5, the energy will be enthusiastic and spontaneous, curing you of any boredom you've been dealing with.
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Chronic boredom is dangerous, linked with impulsivity and risky behavior, like reckless driving, gambling, drug and alcohol use, and other self-destructive behaviors.
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A 2016 study found that walking can make you happier and reduce feelings of boredom and dread, even if you're just walking indoors.
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Juan's attraction to the antiquities he covets isn't motivated only by boredom or greed, but also by a sense of their mystical power.
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Your free-time options are limited, and you're in the market for something, anything, to distract you from the alternating worry and boredom.
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"The boredom is truly the worst part," Meister said to BuzzFeed on why things could get so out of hand on The Challenge.
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Wang Kai Yuan, a therapist from Shenzhen, attended the game with some friends who left well before the third period, out of boredom.
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It wasn't for the free food or out of boredom, but because we never knew on which nights Mr. Pacino would turn up.
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This could teach you to be more adaptive and creative, and you might discover new interests as you try to fight the boredom.
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During the Senate impeachment trial just days ahead of the Iowa caucuses, many lawmakers made no secret of their boredom with the proceedings.
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She wrote to her mother of her relief at no longer being "servant-shadow;" to a friend, she confessed her boredom with domesticity.
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At times this season, Golden State has seemed to wage battles with boredom, with complacency, with slippage — inevitable products of the team's success.
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Modern life bombards us into exhaustion and boredom as much as anxiety; sometimes we are just looking for entertainment in a surprising notion.
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There was another danger, more insidious and less photogenic than any of these, but which nonetheless posed a threat to their endeavour—boredom.
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Next to weightlessness and boredom, the radiation hazards from space weather are considered the biggest obstacles to human travel to Mars and beyond.
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Also, despite its many flaws, I'd recommend seeing Jarhead, because it's the study of something that doesn't get covered often in war: boredom.
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Studies show that walking can boost creative output by up to 60%, as well as improve your mood and decrease feelings of boredom.
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Van der Zwaan awaited his sentencing for the last month while gripped with "boredom and anxiety" while living in a hotel, Schwartz said.
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The boxes, which are delivered every other month, are filled with about five items meant to facilitate self-care or curb potential boredom.
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The brief period of nothingness had ended, and over the next few minutes, my mental state moved from curiosity to boredom to annoyance.
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But if coping with a little boredom now and then helps children grow, it probably also helps parents grow into their adult selves.
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If someone accuses you of being two-faced, remind them that commitment doesn't mean boredom, and having fun doesn't mean shirking your responsibilities.
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She attributes its unexpected usage to our sheer boredom with the other options on offer: "Best" sounds robotic, and "Thanks" isn't always relevant.
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That show, more than almost any other, knew how to find humor in boredom, a skill that comes in particularly handy on Superstore.
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If you instead always whip out your phone and bathe yourself in novel stimuli at the slightest hint of boredom, your brain will build a Pavlovian connection between boredom and stimuli, which means that when it comes time to think deeply about something (a boring task, at least in the sense that it lacks moment-to-moment novelty), your brain won't tolerate it.
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"When boredom kicks in, that's when people get edgy, and pissed off, and that's when fights start happening and that," Harry Harper tells me.
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The new "Privacy Shortcuts" menu will include "clearer explanations" of how each control works, and it'll feature cute graphics to help ease your boredom.
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With this distraction, dogs are less likely to be destructive due to boredom or have loads of pent-up energy when you return home.
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Next, I tried my hand at the vinyl record-themed ring toss game, which I had been saving for a moment of serious boredom.
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They're colloquially known as "energy vampires," but in this case Proksch's character is actually a vampire that feeds off of people's boredom and annoyance.
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"In a context defined by regimentation, boredom, and restriction at best or brutality, violence, and horrors at worst, cross-dressing rejected boundaries," Sigel writes.
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The camera cut to Tambor in the audience, and his icy glare was tinged not with anger but with something else: a weird boredom.
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" That's why Palmer says she is "so honest about everything I'm going through — whether that's sadness, happiness, depression, anger, boredom, whatever it may be.
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The awkwardness, the boredom, the lust, and the companionship are all played out in this series as if nothing else in the world matters.
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I leave with a few good stories to tell my coworkers — I have been woken up out of my work boredom for the day.
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Taking one night off from P-in-V sex could inspire creativity in straight couples' sex lives, and that helps to stave off boredom.
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You can use boredom as an alert that you might be living life on auto-pilot, instead of doing what's actually important to you.
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If you've ever struggled with salad boredom, or have recently found yourself in a meal-making rut, try turning to the cosmos for help.
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Crueger says that his uncle Mike is a prankster, and that this specific prank was born out of boredom and a bad football performance.
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Today, that means taking a risk, doing some experimentation, and freeing yourself from any boredom as the moon clashes with your ruling planet Uranus.
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The European Journal of Social Psychology has offered a new intriguing idea that may explain some of the allure of extreme political thinking. Boredom.
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It's not their sniffing skills that's the problem, but canine tendencies—like distraction and boredom—that cause them to lose focus and make mistakes.
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I guess it's a mixture of boredom from staying home in the super-cold weather and access to the internet that causes this problem.
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It's equal parts fun entertainment about people breaking society's rules and tricking people and thought-provoking, inspiration that can cure your boredom and despair.
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Or they can stay home, staving off boredom by smoking shisha, a tobacco-molasses mix, or stronger stuff, and wait for things to change.
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For instance, Facebook says there are 88 million interested in sin, 81 million in boredom, 41 million in crying, and 28 million in envy.
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This forces flexibility, and tactics worked out on the fly, rather than letting you settle into well-worn battle plans and with them, boredom.
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Framed as stories told to liven up the deadening boredom of war, the six actors leap into a series of tales from Saki's oeuvre.
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Clark told The Huffington Post that his students had texted him over the winter break out of boredom, before suggesting they perform the dance.
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I couldn't afford to lose myself to that toxic boredom anymore — not when I had, in my son, this new opportunity to be transfixed.
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And, instead of a receptionist, there is a man with a gun, who is so bored he is out of his mind with boredom.
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It's a mix of boredom and predictability, and it kills pretty much any shred of enthusiasm for hopping off the couch and getting moving.
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Orange is the New Black excels at creating idiosyncratic and memorable characters, and then allowing their personalities to fill up the boredom of confinement.
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I had never moved this slowly as a passenger and wondered if I would lose my mind with boredom in the next six days.
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Veterans who have been through plenty of camps brushed off the idea of boredom but conceded that this was not like any other year.
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And that might explain why DJs look bored sometimes, too, and why boredom isn't the terrible crime we occasionally make it out to be.
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Some app that helps stave off the inevitable boredom that comes with monogamy, perhaps, or one that offered up creative and fun date ideas.
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Hemmings perfectly captures modern parenthood among the privileged and, with moments of concise poignancy, the silent shames of motherhood: envy, boredom, laziness and guilt.
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He collected his reflections in "Boredom," a piece whose haughty crankiness set the tone for generations of intellectual distaste for popular culture and cinema.
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We got Richard out 2 days earlier and he told us he left Hollywood out of boredom and only returned because he was broke.
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Students may sign on for these events out of genuine patriotism or curiosity or boredom, or they may ignore the invitations, as most do.
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There is no cause for alarmism, as the vast majority of people in Wuhan survived, suffering only from weeks of boredom while on lockdown.
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Toggling between anxiety and boredom is normal right now, and, for many of us — celebrities included — keeping idle hands busy requires more than puzzles.
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But he warned against "the modern plague of boredom," which he attributed to society's desire to homogenize human experience, from fast food to television.
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They bark because they do not know what else to do to in situations that cause stress, fear, anxiety, boredom or too much excitement.
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Both are set in decaying manufacturing towns — places where the men and women scuff and strain against economic morbidity, class invisibility and narcotizing boredom.
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Tech doesn't evolve naturally; it's the result of calculated decisions by people motivated by any number of factors: ambition, greed, curiosity or even boredom.
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The beat inspires me to keep going and keeps my mind off my shaking muscles or my boredom with my same-old running route.
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Destructive behavior in a pet occurs for many reasons — everything from a lack of exercise and pure boredom to territorial aggression and separation anxiety.
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PH: Well, I mean in terms of repetition, boredom, deadpan-ness and his sort of detached view of what's going on in the world.
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"Everything that comes to us: dreariness, excitement, boredom, pain, they all add to the richness" of our lives, Philip says late in the play.
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Even the company of geniuses wasn't enough; boredom would always be with him, he realized, as long as he had this huge, historic intelligence.
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That's called "emotional eating," alternatively called "comfort food," where you fill the void of frustration, boredom, sadness, or loneliness, with, in my case, carbohydrates.
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" Among her observations about the power dynamics in romance is that people are often pried apart by "boredom, the real killer in human relations.
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We asked students what they did when they were bored and whether they agreed with the author that boredom can be a good thing.
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J.R Masterman School, Philadelphia Whenever I find myself in states of boredom, I always ask myself questions in order to stimulate any cognitive thought.
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The feeling you get from having just tidied up the house, especially as a solution to listless boredom, is sometimes nothing short of transcendent.
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The hardest part of my recovery was lingering in bed, or on the sofa, feeling the discomfort and boredom as time ticked by slowly.
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But the level of boredom I experienced during Geostorm ought to qualify as at least a second-degree felony in the state of New York.
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You just didn't know what was coming around that next corner, and it was 99 percent boredom and then 1 percent just pure, unadulterated craziness.
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Just as it is challenging to smoke while knitting, when hands are holding needles and hooks, there's less snacking and mindless eating out of boredom.
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Boredom is a natural part of development: to grow restless with the cosseted world you were raised in and thus prepare to separate from it.
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The police don't like working the protests because it's hours of very tense boredom that can suddenly turn into confused violence—violence these anarchists start.
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And if you Google the topic, you're likely to get more than a dozen different explanations ranging from canine anxiety to illness to simply boredom.
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Life, for Daya, will now forever consist of these cinderblock walls, these cellmates turned violent in their boredom, this unceasing persecution from power-hungry COs.
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The women in the show are beaten, bruised, and subjected to the whims of guards whose boredom and discontent pushes them to abuses of power.
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"We should send them gifts once in a while to help break their boredom," he said, according to the North Korean state-run news agency.
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The idea was to see how our views of boredom, loneliness, selfhood, and community have evolved over time, and how technologies have sparked those evolutions.
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"Boredom is unpleasant, there is no denying it," said Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg, a lecturer at King's College London and one of the study's authors.
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They can help address common issues like separation anxiety and boredom, which can lead to destroyed furniture, other kinds of property damage, or undue stress.
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Chris Christie is the unpopular lame duck governor of a state that hates him—he filled out the paperwork just to alleviate his crushing boredom.
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The brewery and the four bars it runs are all closed indefinitely, so Jiang is now finding himself fighting boredom, and trying to be useful.
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" By seeking treatment, Kenney intends to "work on finding other ways to cope with boredom, find hobbies and better learn how to deal with stress.
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He engaged himself with well-timed cuts along the baseline, but too often would trade purposeful movement with a restless boredom that destroyed Milwaukee's spacing.
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Pierre is full of idealistic intentions, but Andrei can't see past his boredom with society and his pregnant, slightly needy wife Lise to fully listen.
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Grinding boredom gives way to bowel-emptying fear, followed sometimes by episodes of nearly psychedelic blood lust and the frankly sexual pleasure of unleashing a .
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Midway through the first act of this drama about clashes of faith and family, set in 12th-century Jerusalem, I found myself listing toward boredom.
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One study from Carnegie Mellon found that boredom is even more common in men, youth, those who haven&apost married, and those with lower incomes.
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Videos showed empty city streets and grocery store shelves, as well as the boredom, anxiety, and even weird moments of joy that come with quarantine.
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Not minutes, flipping between tasks, tapping out emails while squeezing in a quick call on FaceTime or Skype — but hours, bordering on boredom, in person.
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Experimental experiences are shrouded in glitches, eye strain, boredom, limited graphics, and a difficulty to wear the sets for anything more than 20153-20 minutes.
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In real life, living through a disaster means long periods of uncertainty and boredom, which is difficult to reflect in a movie meant to entertain.
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It's an antidote to both the boredom brought on by coronavirus-induced social isolation and the absence of human connection that people are currently feeling.
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Though playwrights have always dreaded coughing patrons (it generally means we have induced boredom), now the cough is greeted with a different kind of dread.
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Jeff Flake sat in the front row — to keep boredom from settling in as lawyer after lawyer stood at the lectern to discuss trial rules.
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But one of the longer sections is devoted to life on the road, with its terrible food, miserable lodgings, deadly boredom, loneliness and hostile audiences.
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They can help address common issues like separation anxiety and boredom, which can lead to destroyed furniture, other kinds of property damage, or undue stress.
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You like to keep your partner guessing, and hope they'd do the same for you—in fact, boredom is a death knell for your partnerships.
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Attributing it to inertia, boredom, or technology is a lightweight cop-out, not to mention that all of those are just screens for deeper issues.
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Passengers on board the Diamond Princess had previously shared pictures of lives in quarantine, including their room service and the ways they coped with boredom.
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She does point to the "black boredom" of the days after war was declared, and how mass euthanization was something citizens could do to prepare.
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Over three years in that position he helped develop the made-for-TV movie format out of boredom, by his account, with conventional television series.
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And, if you do these things out of boredom you are communicating the same thing—you are not confident or trustworthy in a tense situation.
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This is a game that outright simulates boredom and drudgery, where so many comparable works are focused on streamlining the experience as much as possible.
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The article observes that gang members are "young men who defy easy caricature" and that boredom contributes to the cycle of violence in Chicago's neighborhoods.
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They insist their workers amputate the messy human bits of themselves—family, hunger, thirst, emotions, the need to make rent, sickness, fatigue, boredom, depression, traffic.
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Whatever they do, there's no denying it's a soul-crushing exercise in boredom with just a sprinkle of exploitation and a dash of voyeuristic sadism.
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If things have been stifled in your love life, the lunar eclipse in Leo will end the monotony and boredom for sure—but expect drama.
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Rather than reaching for our phones when we're bored, research suggests that leaning into boredom can help make us more productive, goal-oriented, and creative.
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Boredom, loneliness, frustration, confusion, and indecisiveness cause a slight pain or irritation, prompting us to engage in mindless action to make the negative sensation go away.
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This was before the turn of the millennium, a time when the romanticism of dusty Midwestern boredom was heavily used to turn tricks in alternative rock.
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There are few guards and even fewer bars, and the armed sentries appear to be dying of boredom in their watchtowers, the cell blocks wide open.
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But all too frequently, these routines also lead to mundanity and boredom — which is why it's so crucial to switch things up once in a while.
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Over the past decade the Internet looks to have consolidated its grip on the spacetime that boredom occupied for the less connected generations that came before.
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The upcoming Record Store Day release is actually a gem from the O Genesis archives, a 2008 holiday season boredom-killer between Burgess' friends one December.
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Variety is the spice of life, so coupled Aquarians should stave off boredom with road trips, weekend getaways, or even a big vacation before the 7.993nd.
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The final study tested 300 people in Ireland who also completed a boredom proneness scale and a questionnaire about how much meaning they found in life.
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When we first meet Kelly (Gugu Mbatha Raw) in San Junipero, she's skipping from love affair to love affair in an effort to quell the boredom.
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It's mostly the fact that Fabio barely moves for the majority of the video, while simultaneously making you feel a little mix of boredom and anxiety.
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The battle is internal: It's the boredom, it's the — I hope this doesn't sound grandiose — but it touches on the role of art in our lives.
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Dustin Zahn's uncompromising techno—which has found a home on labels like Adam Beyer's Drumcode and Radio Slave's REK'D imprint—has its roots in childhood boredom.
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With porn, health concerns, and metaphysical questions, I think what is happening is a combination of boredom, anxiety, and marijuana smoking during these late-night hours.
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This is a way for him of dealing with the boredom and the isolation of being alone in the White House by himself in the evenings.
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Everything really explodes when the drums suddenly bounce off of the synths and when the guitar and bass conspire to cast out all semblance of boredom.
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These two images coming together as one start a conversation in my mind of idolization, fan culture, relics, shrines and their relationship to consumerism and boredom.
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An Italian journalist who visited several safe houses described people living with near-terminal boredom, unable to go out, missing the company of friends and family.
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By the time my initial fear of being in Afghanistan gave way to anger and boredom, I was, I think, willing to die for the cause.
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Harry Potter Golden Snitch Fidget Spinner, $11.99, at AmazonThis Golden Snitch shaped fidget spinner will help them take out some of their boredom between Quidditch practice.
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The plight of a political journalist on Election Day is akin to that of a pilot or a police officer: hours of boredom, minutes of terror.
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My A.P. English teacher had assigned "For Whom the Bell Tolls," by Ernest Hemingway, and as I read it, I felt boredom, then anger, then incredulity.
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Thief is a brilliant game that I love and admire, but it also a game that has taught me about the boredom and exhaustion of terror.
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They have magically cured boredom as we always have something to do — those endless feeds of content are a perpetual source of inspiration, information and amusement.
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Animal repetitive behaviors were considered "stereotypies"—mindless actions that were a result of poor environment or boredom, like tigers pacing in a cage at the zoo.
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Cornelia Vanderbilt, George and Edith's only child, could stand to live in her inheritance for only seven years before the debts and the boredom crushed her.
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None of that noise is bound to get a reaction out of LeBron James the way accusing the Cleveland Cavaliers of falling prey to boredom does.
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It's also possible many communities might be home for a long time, potentially months, so boredom is a real concern as many public activities are limited.
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Although working from home (if you have that luxury) may have seemed like a great treat at first, it can definitely bring some anxiety — and boredom.
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I don't feel I can talk to any of my friends about this, as they are hard at work and can't really identify with my boredom.
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Morris's In My Mind's Eye is so charming, so endearing, such an antidote to boredom, that I find myself tempted to give it the Montaigne treatment.
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It feels important, almost compulsory for you and your friends to pour the same neon liquid on the frustration and boredom and isolation of another week.
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Anything that breaks the cycle of boredom is welcome, which is exactly why I was open to something by the suspect name of Baby DJ School.
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He was looking for a happiness that could stave off incursions of dissatisfaction or boredom once the ultimate battle is won, and (at last!) tranquility reigns.
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Today, I did a few hours of online school from my bed, FaceTimed my friends, and even resorted to painting my old jeans out of boredom.
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If you're one of the many of us practicing social distancing, you might be finding yourself oscillating between stress (panic, dread, anxiety, etc.) and extreme boredom.
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The alternating boredom and intense stress have given rise to a hypersexual culture that can serve as a distraction or a way to blow off steam.
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The true players tend to hug the aisles, around the middle of the middle of the room, usually projecting a unique combination of boredom and anxiety.
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In that book, a white woman gives birth to twins, one white and one black, after pursuing an affair with a black man out of boredom.
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Danielle had thought of suicide a handful of times, of course—who hadn't—but mainly as a distraction from the boredom of her hotel-lobby work.
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They live in a filthy hole in the ground for months on end, clothes rotting off their bodies and the endless boredom punctuated by unpredictable firefights.
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She communicates the depths of boredom, loneliness and depression that afflict expatriate communities, and "The Last Post" gets interesting, rather than just pretty, whenever she's onscreen.
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She also said paying more attention to my surroundings would make me realize how many other people used their phones to cope with boredom and anxiety.
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It felt purely mercenary; it became something I would do as I watched reality television, which is how I handle the boredom of most other chores.
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The facial expressions of the officers reveal their boredom, possibly because of the Entity's unsolicited and thorough explanations regarding the transparency and legality of the club.
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In most parts of London, the boredom of everyday life is alleviated by an obsessive rivalry with crews from the block of apartments down the road.
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When I go to paint abstractly, I don't get the intense rush of anger, sadness, or happiness; I get frustration and boredom from creating abstract paintings.
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Boredom for land-sited control room operators is also cited as a concern and reaction times are seen as a potential issue if satellite connection delays occur.
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Aside from that, the act of keeping a bat as a pet will cause it to experience terror, inappropriate and damaging nutrition and terrible loneliness and boredom.
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There's a fine line between boredom and contentment, and about 30 street names in, it was like I was momentarily freed from the national state of affairs.
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If you're waiting in line at the DMV and you'd otherwise just be bored with nothing else to do, then checking email can help alleviate the boredom.
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Jexi briefly pathologizes Phil's particular fixation through a couple of flashback scenes where, as a child, he's repeatedly handed a phone to stave off boredom or strife.
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A few factors were doubtlessly in play, and though we can only speculate on what caused these consecutive ratings drops, could one of them perhaps be...boredom?
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By that time blockchain will have reached maturity and the uninvolved user will talk about it in tones of boredom – if they talk about it at all.
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According to Millan's research at his Dog Psychology Center in Los Angeles, audiobooks were found to potentially help dogs cope with stress, depression, and boredom at home.
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Although I know I have the tendency to shop online out of boredom, I stock up on a few things for my upcoming trip to South America.
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The experimental, jagged account matches the disjointed life of the soldier: long periods of boredom, interspersed with terror and confusion in battle, and drunken brawls on leave.
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Perhaps the best part of this entire video, however, is the look of extreme, unimpressed boredom on Nicki's face while she performs this trick for the camera.
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I don't think I've ever felt that I've lost a novel by blogging it, but, on the other hand, what I genuinely do miss is boredom. Downtime.
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Yeah, all right, so you're in the same pro-boredom camp that I am, although I'm glad that my kids don't have to go through it entirely.
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This one describes the process of using voice input to determine "happiness, joy, anger, sorrow, sadness, fear, disgust, boredom, stress, and other emotional states" in the user.
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The excitement had been intense; one minute I was facing years of boredom, and the next I was involved in a jail break into a war zone.
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After years — for many, decades — of pitched conflict, the realities of peace sit with an uneasy boredom, as soldiers wait out this transitional phase into civilian life.
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Instead of getting stuck watching them play while you fall into a void of boredom, pick yourself up your own controller so that nightmare never happens again.
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Out of boredom and frustration, many of the whales turn to chewing on concrete and steel tank surfaces, causing wear and tear that leads to further problems.
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For one, it makes you realize the difference between actually wanting a drink/cigarette/something to eat rather than reaching for it out of habit or boredom.
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Insider: There was also a lot of shouting directed toward MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who'd taken to lounging across a bench in a pose of exaggerated boredom.
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But no: "Black is slimming," she says, in a tone of dryly funny boredom that's Mash's signature, and which Ms. Parsons captures with perfect goth-girl insouciance.
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CircusAID volunteer Jill Maglio points out that one of the biggest problems the refugees face is profound boredom, which can have a serious impact on mental health.
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But experiencing boredom may actually help you succeed, according to TED Talk speaker and podcast host Manoush Zomorodi and the scientists she's spoken with over the years.
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Yes, boredom is a real and very human affliction, but just like with mental illness, we often choose to medicate it instead of getting to its root.
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Robinson to the Taft Hotel, where they start an affair that seems born out of boredom and curiosity for him and some kind of desperation for her.
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Baking can help address the boredom of home quarantines and some people may have more time on their hands now that they aren't commuting to an office.
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Any hair expert will tell you that, whatever you do, you should never let boredom trick you into thinking it's a good idea to give yourself bangs.
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Before reading Deep Work, I counted myself firmly on the side of informational overload; I found the arguments for boredom, for quiet, for calm, a bit nostalgic.
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I had heard soldiers say they experienced periods of boredom on deployment, but I had never heard anyone sum up time in a war zone that way.
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There's something deeply unsettling about stepping out of the home-from-work boredom of self-isolation into the tense, ambient panic of grocery shopping during a pandemic.
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And every so often, Cleo (who, I realize now, must have been going mad with boredom) took us on an excursion: Brighton Beach, Prospect Park, Coney Island.
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Other Republican senators professed boredom, including Senator Thom Tillis, who said he has made up his mind to acquit Trump and dismissed the House presentation as repetitive.
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As millions of people in central China remain under quarantine in an attempt to prevent the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, a fresh problem is emerging: boredom.
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A fleeting admission of boredom is met with beatific smiles, and the most lively debate occurs over which stick might best be used to beat a drum.
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It's boredom, not pity, that drives Katharina to shelter a Jewish fugitive for a night, a decision that will finally, catastrophically, set the family's exodus in motion.
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But what saved it from boredom was the truly delightful Za'atar spice, which I tried on tofu, while the boyfriend/sous chef kept his on the chicken.
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The "sustainable planet" education can offer a way to alleviate the boredom that seems to afflict students and engage them in new discoveries to combat climate change.
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Try it on a work night when you need something that will bring comfort (chicken and rice) without boredom (chiles, pickled ginger, Szechuan buttons, and anise hyssop).
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However, boredom leads to long trails of thinking, so captivating, amazing, and wonderful, and by the time you snap out of it you forget where you started.
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"Instagram Stories has kind of become the world's greatest cure for boredom," said BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield, who covers Facebook and the rest of the media industry.
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I fold my laundry and put it away, and then spend the rest of the afternoon whipping up a batch of fresh cinnamon rolls out of pure boredom.
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Strikingly often, self-made Americans have stories to share about teenage jobs, involving alarm clocks clanging before dawn, aching muscles, stern bosses and soul-fortifying hours of boredom.
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"I can't think of anything that hasn't been faked for emotional gratification, for satisfaction, or to counter boredom; it sounds so trivial, but people do it," he said.
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It is hard to articulate the plodding boredom of watching England during his tenure as manager, the sheer lack of invention on offer over the last four years.
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Bleached my f—ing natural healthy a$$ hair rebelling out of boredom while dealing with a consecutive amount of time off on the Woody project ( 2 months ago)!
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Because Wasserman's career has never been focused on building her resume, she established early on what to do when boredom sets in: Move on to the next thing.
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" She blames writing the letter on a "barf bag" on her boredom — plus "My WiFi doesn't work, and I'm nervous as f—k so this is me venting.
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Stoudemire volunteered at children's hospitals while completing her biology degree at North Carolina's Davidson College, and it pained her to witness kids' boredom and isolation from the environment.
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That drug made her feel numb, she said, and never relieved her "discontent" — the restlessness or spiritual boredom that would inevitably propel her back into her drug use.
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So emotional eating can be in response to stress, but it can also be in response to anger or sadness — some researchers even characterize boredom as an emotion.
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In fact, the existential horror of the Medium Place (boredom and a lack of cocaine) is treated with much more gravity than the possibility of eternal physical torment.
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The newspaper reported "hunger, tiredness, and boredom" among the main reasons contestants gave up, along with "sexual jealousy" and a general disillusionment with the concept of the show.
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So the smartphone represents a pretty dramatic shift in our expectations of companionship and entertainment — and a shift in how we respond to feelings like boredom and loneliness.
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Bancroft and his wife Miriam live lives of luxury, but after so many years together, they descend into depravity while looking for new outlets to stave off boredom.
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The attempts to portray Rory as flawed and sometimes a "bad egg" are laughably disingenuous, especially factoring Alexis Bledel's painfully shit acting: She can't even portray boredom well.
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What remained, and what Hell's work emphasizes, was a sense of resignation, an abandonment of mainstream society and culture, and perhaps most of all a sense of boredom.
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LONDON — An 23-year-old war veteran has been inundated with job offers after his ad looking for work to save him from "dying of boredom" went viral.
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Courtiers in towering wigs battle boredom by throwing oranges at a naked man, while in the royal suite above, Anne stuffs her mouth with bright blue birthday cake.
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From the blooming friendship of Olive and Lola, the outrageous outfits and their cheeky run-ins with the goats and chickens, there is not a moment of boredom.
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I'd been smart about the hash, only smoking it a couple of times in the shower house, but I couldn't resist toking up here to kill the boredom.
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When she decided to join the press conference again, she gave a stare of boredom so withering that those at home couldn't help but feel her pain. Hero.
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Travelling through Honolulu airport this weekend, Gulliver watched the security officer in the PreCheck line drum his hands on the table in boredom while chanting, "PreCheck, PreCheck, PreCheck".
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"I wanted the level inside my body to feel alive," said Triantafyllidis, who cited boredom with the rigidity of modern level design as an inspiration for Self Portrait.
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To avoid boredom Kim says that he runs his blog, doles out financial advice, attends mentorship sessions to expand his knowledge and collaborates with churches on philanthropic endeavors.
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Of course, people cheat for all sorts of reasons — sexual desire, emotional fulfillment, a life crisis, revenge, and boredom are just a few common motivations for both genders.
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While prison labor has often been criticized as exploitative, studies have shown that certain well-designed programs can reduce recidivism or at least hold off boredom and disheartenment.
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Once when we were visiting my parents in Massachusetts, my daughters complained of boredom until they discovered an enormous spider web climbing structure on a Cambridge side street.
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While researchers have long discouraged "screen time," some parents consider a special occasion iPad game or seat-back movie the most prized weapon in their anti-boredom arsenal.
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Games like NoMan's Sky and Assassin's Creed promise infinite worlds full of infinite content, but quickly become exercises in repetition and boredom thanks to a dearth of variety.
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But according to actual Lens users on social media, using Lenses isn't just an act of self-expression, but one of insecurity, boredom, and generally beautifying one's reality.
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At about the 45-minute mark, my friends and I started doing what every millennial does when faced with a mere moment of boredom — scrolling through our phones.
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In general, though, these films about white female adolescence and teenhood revolve around particular experiences of and meditations on dissatisfaction and boredom, using nostalgia as their primary pull.
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Calmly contemptuous of his callers' minor crises, Asger snaps out of his boredom when a terrified woman contacts him, claiming to have been kidnapped by her ex-husband.
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Now, the artist — who keeps studios in Brooklyn, Beijing and Dakar, Senegal, to avoid the boredom of working in one place — is planning to take on another master.
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He won a poetry prize as a teenager in East Germany, but he dropped out of a poetry club out of boredom and moved on to other things.
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They haven't yet faced life's heartless compromises and forfeitures, its countless trials by boredom and ethical Kobayashi Marus, or glumly watched themselves do everything they ever disapproved of.
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Often when a group of friends went drinking in Koreatown, someone would invariably propose going to Circle, especially with the right mix of soju, boredom and extra cash.
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My parents have acres of swamp land, so I spend lots of time exploring, playing pretend, and just trying not to go insane with boredom as a child.
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In a fit of boredom and curiosity, I ended up on Craigslist and came to the conclusion that the best way to make money was via foot fetishists.
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The paychecks keep rolling in, and they'll care about the ratings again when they threaten said paychecks (or when they're just ready to leave the show from boredom).
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At the end of the day, the music is really all about embracing uniqueness and the things that make us human—love, nostalgia, euphoria, insecurities, lust, boredom, etc.
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It's a generation-defining moment for almost every generation aliveAs any parent of a young child, much less multiple children, can attest — solitary boredom is an unfamiliar commodity.
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After the final credits, the movie returns to Lee: The Watchers are shown walking away from him, apparently out of boredom, as he calls after them in protest.
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They're facing challenges like limited space, limited equipment, and curious family members, but rest assured — we'll still have the Test Kitchen to carry us through the pandemic boredom.
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But while the song is incredibly versatile, especially in a time when millions of people are staying at home, there's one thing it can't do: actually cure boredom.
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Not since the age of eight, when I was still learning to master boredom, had life struck me so much as simply a problem of what to do.
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For myriad reasons — information gathering, boredom (I couldn't leave my home without being trailed by paparazzi) and a touch of masochism — I watched the news around the clock.
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Otherwise, the Democratic presidential field will subject the nation to another night of boredom, repetitive stump one-liners, self-absorbed moderators and unfair imbalances of candidate speaking time.
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And if you thought focus, complacency and outright boredom were issues for the Warriors this season, imagine what they'll be like after a third title in four seasons.
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Howl's Moving Castle tells the story of Sophie, the eldest of three sisters and as such doomed by fairy tale logic to a life of boredom and drudgery.
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Van Gerwen, 27, was born in Boxtel, the Netherlands, and started playing darts at 13 to stave off boredom when it was too cold to play soccer outside.
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An ardent classicist who anticipates long stretches of boredom on his enforced vacation, Brunetti has packed plenty of reading matter: Pliny, Herodotus, Euripides and that avid gossip, Suetonius.
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Jay Jenkins had just wrapped up his freshman year at The Citadel, a South Carolina military college, when boredom led him to try what he thought was CBD.
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And so in boredom, I found myself drifting away from the broadcast, back to the world outside, where everything is worse, but at least it's worth thinking about.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. The international break is so tedious at this point that, to be honest, we're bored of writing about our boredom.
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One from that mid-19th-century engagement has a checkerboard at its center, an example of the boards made from scraps of military uniforms to fend off boredom.
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