Word: boredoms
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...anyone and that she did not qualify to teach in any of its departments. She applied for "a position" and was refused so many times that Dean Maurice Kilbridge said he would no longer answer her inquiries. "We have gone over this with you to the point of boredom," he wrote...
...neighbor interrupts them making love on the lawn they are completely unperturbed. He is successful and likes his work; she seems unconcerned by her own lack of a career. only problem with their lives, seemingly, is its lack of problems. They react to this situation in three ways--boredom, guilt about their affluence, and obsession with the nastier aspects of life even material security and good taste cannot overcome--loss of control and death. The wife is haunted by the fear that something will happen to her five-year-old. The husband refuses to fly, and is horrified to find...
...young man unerringly plays on all of their weaknesses. He is mysterious, vaguely dangerous. They know he is not a poet--he confuses the husband, Lewis Fielding, with the author of Tom Jones--but that is about the only thing they know. He is intriguing to them in their boredom and he is a sop to their material guilt. Berger bluntly tells the husband that he, the stranger, is doing them a favor by sponging on them and thereby quieting their uneasy consciences. In addition, this complete intruder appeals to the husband's fears about his wife's faithfulness. Fielding...
...strange new boredom is more than that. It's not so much that the people, the surroundings and issues, are less stimulating. They're just less stimulating than memory has made them. Or less stimulating than you think they ought...
...director has no sense of priorities in his film, so we view each unrelated event with equal boredom; his distractions and digressions preclude any sense of urgency about the outcome of Le Tellier's search. Verneuil suffers from the same perceptual malady as the killer Minos; the suspense of his thriller disintegrates because he is only capable of focusing on one isolated idea at a time...