Word: boredome
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...should a judge find boredom to be paradise? The answer is a sad story of hope and despair...
...doctors to teach and encourage patients to yawn deeply every five minutes or so, filling the lungs to near ideal capacity. He has invented a spirometer that registers the depth of breathing to encourage patient cooperation, but admits that most patients should be able to go it alone. The boredom of a hospital stay may be enough, he says, to keep them yawning their way to recovery...
...himself. He, like any other vampire, cannot be held responsible for what happens when the sun goes down. NBC, however, can be held responsible for the episode, titled Elegy for a Vampire, and for all the other stories in this series. They are consistently dreadful, substituting the chill of boredom for the thrill of suspense. Week after week, this is perhaps the silliest of all the silly hours...
Lecture discussions of the sort I am describing are difficult to manage What is discouraging is when the verdict of boredom is taken as a given--as it is in many discussions of educational reform--without further scrutiny. Students often insist that having to listen to each other and to discussion is even more boring than to listen to a senior faculty member. The statement I am bored," is a verdict on the self as well as on the other I suggests that there is nothing in the environment which might evoke one's intense attention, including the terms that...
Miraculously, Johnson projects tedium without inducing boredom. The melodies are modest but tuneful, nailed down with piano chords that sound like Verdian oompah that has absentmindedly dozed off. The words are straight satire. "There are three choruses in this opera," goes the opening chorus. "This is the first one. The second one will be almost like this one, but somewhat shorter. The third one will be almost like this one, but somewhat longer. But each of them is staged-differently...