Word: boredoms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...insult to boredom, CBS gave fans a show that did very little to tide them over until NCAA basketball vacates Thursday nights next week. In staying faithful to the arc of the show thus far, tribal council by tribal council, CBS missed a chance to give close readers a tasty treat: More unseen footage of the eight people actually still competing for the million bucks...
...sure, passengers may be emotionally aroused well before they enter the cabin - from delays, boredom, jetlag or saying farewell to loved ones. Also, by some estimates, as many as one in five passengers has a fear of flying. And a few experts say that airlines, whose advertisements depict air travel as a relaxed, soothing realm of smiling passengers and subservient flight attendants, may themselves be partially to blame for raising travelers' expectations. It's a claim airlines flatly dismiss. "Ludicrous," says Ben Hall, a spokesman for Virgin Atlantic Airways. "We have to look at how many cases of air rage...
...brother in the side of the head. I froze with my mouth open. Pat held his hand to the side of his head. We all just stood there for a moment, then they moved away. It was a perfect Columbus moment, the kind combat troops describe - long days of boredom punctuated by a quick flash of terror...
...hype is only half right. Though we have no definite statistics yet, we know that growth has slowed from the white-hot rate of 5 percent to the more prosaic but healthy 1-3 percent. On that basis, the financial media--out of boredom more than anything else--has started wondering if the world is about to end, and whether it will be by fire or ice. The conclusion: either will suffice...
...valiums or halcyons or cercines or any of a number of sedatives to help me calm down. When I stopped smoking for a few days just to see if I could, a profound depression would come over me. The drab grayness of the world would become crushing and the boredom would seem ineluctable. Nothing seemed fun. Nothing seemed worthwhile. Every book was tortuously slow. Every song was criminally banal. Every movie crawled. The sparkle and shine had been sucked out of life so completely that my world came across as some fluorescent-lit, decolorized, saltpetered version of the planet...