Word: boredomization
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...recent poll, commissioned by the American Council on Education and conducted by researchers at UCLA, claims that our classmates, the nation's college first-years, are a strange mix of boredom and ambition. While the polls central focus is the students' attitudes towards their schooling, the wording of the questions makes grander conclusions about the spiritual and intellectual state of college students. Reading of the poll in The New York Times, we are likely to get the impression that our classmates are bored not merely with their classes, but with life, and that they are single-mindedly focused on getting...
This conclusion is both simplistic and unjust. It mistakes an indifference and impatience for tedious classwork with a spiritual malaise and selfish inwardness. These are two very distinct kinds of boredom--and they have very different implications. The first, the indifference, is a particular dissatisfaction, the outward sign that one's mind and one's priorities are elsewhere, for better or worse. The second type of boredom is a sickness. It is totalizing, spiritual and philosophical. College first-years these days are bored in the first sense only; they do not have their minds on their work because they...
...show a video of gals with guns--that's a master touch. But lingering on the boring homebody life of a criminal is a little too much, even if DeNiro's the criminal: I'm not all for the experiential method of getting an audience to feel the consummate boredom of a character by subjecting them to the same...
...which waiting is the game, Snickers uses sweet humor to sell its nougat-filled chocolate bars. Hopefuls waiting to see St. Peter pass the time with a Snickers, as does a traded football player whose old tattoo must be painfully removed. The quirky spots take a bite out of boredom...
Damon writes himself as the studly Will Hunting, a cocky roughneck from South Boston. Will knows he's a looker--he spends his days swaggering around town, drinking and palling around with buddies and getting into fights for no other reason than boredom. Is it a surprise then to find out that Will is also a secret genius? He quotes ancient property laws to get out of arraignments, rattles off knowledge of historiography in order to impress girls and even finishes brain-numbing equations left on the school blackboards...