Word: boredness
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The narrative style Frayn employs occasionally takes the form of a kind of muted stream of consciousness, and when it does, it tends to sound like a bored, dull Joyce. However, the consciousness of a proper English civil servant yields more amusement than might be expected, sometimes by virtue of...
The hair has been tamed (Bob's choice), but not his restless energy. Hughes, 53, divides his time between a loft in downtown Manhattan and a house on Shelter Island, off New York's Long Island. In between his books and art criticism, he enjoys such hobbies as carpentry and...
American politics is so much danger and luck: gossip that George Bush had a mistress never damaged him during the 1988 campaign. Why not? Did the thought seem less plausible -- less imaginable even -- in Bush's case? Or did the monster just get bored and pass him by?
Still, nobody can match Le Pen in playing on the resentment of petits blancs (poor whites) toward the immigrants. Now he is appealing to other kinds of discontent. He is making a strong pitch to farmers worried that European integration will strip away their accustomed subsidies, and is even putting...
Even in handling the trial itself, an instinct for fairness carried CNN through the slow stretches. "If you leave out one witness because he or she is dull, you lose a building block," said Furnad. "We have some obligation to the audience to be consistent in the way we cover...