Word: boredome
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...meaningful facet of In-Talk is its ambiguity, a reflection of youth's determination to avoid self-definition even in conversation. "Up tight" can mean anxious, emotionally involved or broke; to "freak out" can mean to flip, go high on drugs, or simply to cross the edge of boredom; a "stud...
...Reverence. A fixture on Fleet Street since the end of World War II, Muggeridge at 63 actually seems to be enjoying himself. Perhaps one reason for his popularity is that he seems so much at home in "little England." Delighted that Britain is at last relieved of the "boredom" of empire, he jests: "Aspiring proconsuls, retired to Sevenoaks, take their fury out on lawnmowers." And the man who has spent his life mocking almost everything under the sun has lately begun to show some reverence for religion. "We have to make the world a wilderness to find God," he recently...
...also has a win over Boston University to its credit, and last Wednesday was leading Brown, 8-3, at Providence in a game that was shortened by boredom...
Pomp and circumstance has its place, and monarchy has the advantage of separating the pomp from the power. This is an enormous timesaver for the government, whose machinery can tick quietly behind the pageantry, processions and boredom of state visits. Besides, the separation is a safeguard against political demagoguery. Modern monarchy often seems to reduce the tensions to which democracy is prone. According to Sociologists Edward Shils and Michael Young in the Sociological Review, it provides an effective segregation of love and hatred. "When the love is directed toward a genuinely love-worthy object, it reduces the intensity...
Sagan knows how to play with the nuances of worldly boredom and the despairing thrusts of passion. Of her seven novels, La Chamade is one of the best and as perceptive as Bonjour, Tristesse. She has added another documentation to her reputation as a precise miniaturist who lucidly fosters a fond romantic delusion-that the French are so tough and realistic that they can be rational even about love...