Word: boredome
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...documents were read slowly, so that the translators could keep pace. The accused dropped their initial air of boredom, strained to hear every word. As the relatively "innocent" and "detached" ones, such as Schacht, were drawn into the story, the defendants began to understand the scope of the case...
...Lose. . . ." The only thing they had salvaged from their days of dubious glory was their arrogance, and that was tattered. They displayed it as best they could, by exhibiting supercilious boredom during the reading of the indictment. Hermann Göring, whom most of them tacitly accepted as their "Führer," had also managed to salvage his vastly deceptive joviality (he graciously gave his autograph to a U.S. Navy technician) and one of his fancy uniforms, a fawn-colored, brass-buttoned affair, stripped of medals and cut down to fit his slenderized body. The uniform was obviously good...
Calamity Unlimited. U.S. soldiers will soon learn why the phrase "Nothing happens" is a social pleasantry rather than an expression of boredom in Japan. Almost everything that happens in Japan is a calamity...
...where it is far worse to have started brilliantly and to have slopped off, than to be just starting; where everyone, forgetting what went wrong and why, assigns it simply to lack of ability; where it is silly to thionk of getting a release from a strangling contract; where boredom, frustration and hopelessness conspire against the will until as she says, "all you can hope for is that sooner or later you will hit bottom...." She hit bottom in the appalling Ladies Courageous (TIME, April...
...miserably!" What makes G.I. Joe an unusual picture is its unsparing reconstruction of a soldier's wretched little realities. Beginning with Company C's first fearful, fascinated look at death in North Africa, the G.I.'s lives are played out in endless rain,' mud, hunger, boredom, weariness and fear. The film's soldiers are grimy and unshaven; they do not march but stumble on in utter weariness; they talk in low, tired tones...