Word: boredome
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...yacht and a bed. Mitchum rescues Jane from an overly amorous admirer, stalks danger along the waterfront and over rooftops, avenges Bendix' death and bares his torso to the camera. During all this activity, Jane rolls her eyes at intervals and effectively registers two moods: petulance and boredom. Meanwhile, Mitchum maintains his sleepy-eyed deadpan...
Captain Kent begins dropping his ethical ballast well before he reaches combat. The first value to go is fidelity. Kent loves the wife he left in England and has told himself he will be faithful to her. But the night comes when, sodden with gin and boredom, he seduces a Eurasian girl, mistaking her gasps of pain for pleasure. Afterwards, he loathes himself and the girl...
Consistent character is absent from the play as a whole as well. Farce, comedy, and boredom succeed each other slickly at random. Visual gags, political "humor," pseudo-Shavian epigrams, and Joe Miller favorites mingle democratically with a handful of really comic situations...
...hotel died, Will married the widow, not because he loyed her but because they were both lonely and she was somebody to help take care of the boy. Success came along, somehow. Will got into the egg business, made money and built a fancy big house. Out of boredom more than anything else, he took to visiting Omaha on weekends, and struck up with a hotel floozie. When his wife left him, it made little difference; he just kept on working and married the floozie. His new wife and his son played jazz on the phonograph all day, so after...
Gilbert proved "a clever, bright boy, who was extremely lazy," and a rather unpromising young man, very tall and very skinny, who came averagely out of Kings College, London, and took a minor civil service job. Soon, to appease the boredom, he was squiggling little poems and doodles...