Word: boredome
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Wicker predicted that television, by constantly exposing the nation to its president, will lead to voter boredom and one-term presidencies...
...last hair, by some European souvenir manufacturer -- Koons, who probably couldn't carve well enough to do his own initials on a tree, makes none of his stuff himself -- the effect is, well, fairly unsettling. The second time you see it, it's just another Koons. The third time, boredom supervenes...
Sickert's pictures of seedy domestic boredom, violence and the aftermath of murder seemed much more problematical, and they still do. In 1907 a blond prostitute was found with her throat cut in a rented room in Camden Town. This killing, close to Sickert's London lodgings, gave him a subject. Through 1908-09, he painted a series of harsh, dark images of a naked woman on a bed and a clothed man -- shades of Manet's Dejeuner! -- glaring down at her. In L'Affaire de Camden Town, 1909, she seems to be alive but cowering from him; with...
...least cinematic of environments, the library. When they are not poring over volumes, they are earnestly discussing their various findings. Both modes distance the audience from them and their tragic offspring. Eventually the couple manage to find a palliative for the disease, but Miller never finds one for our boredom...
...that for Dodd, who fought hard for the right to be hanged, that would be the worst possible punishment. The prospect of what amounts to a glamorous public suicide was vastly more appealing than a life spent alone in a cell the size of a parking space, crushed by boredom, without the least chance of freedom. For him, perhaps justice would have been better served by denying him his death wish and letting him wait, for a very long time, for death to come...