Word: boredome
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...being stolen from them." In the bored silence that follows, the frantic handclapping of a single S.E.D. delegate echoes hollowly. It is nearly tea time and the British observers leave their bench. The Russian's attention wanders and he files his nails with an air of unbearable boredom...
...scenes in "The Lady from Shanghai," from New York to the West Indies to San Francisco, are all fresh as well as realistic, and the peculiar Welles touch is always there. The tortuonsness of the plot will provoke interest and armchair detective work rather than boredom, but it is important to make sure of the times and arrive at the beginning of the picture...
That is only a symbol, too. What has happened in general is certainly not restricted to results of the left-handed insurrection. What has happened is boredom and indifference at the results of the system. "It must," says the undergraduate, "be wonderful to be a graduate student...
Laid on a Pacific cargo ship late in the war and far from the fighting, Mr. Roberts pictures a shipload of men worn down by lack of change, lack of women, lack of war. It suggests that boredom can be as tough on the nerves as bombardment. The only war the crew of the AK 601 can fight is against their captain, who makes life tough for others because life was tough for him. The crew's great hero is Lieut, (j.g.) Roberts, a "quiet guy who, while sweating to get transferred to the real fight, keeps in trim...
...Committee must first weigh the value of the training that the bill proposes. The part that UMT will take in the shaping of the individual trainee's personality is a comparatively minor matter. Certainly six months of boredom, frustration, and close order drill will mold the conscriptee into neither a "fine upstanding youth" nor a "neo-fascist" unless he had strong tendencies in one of those directions at the outset...