Word: boredoms
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...fairy ring is perhaps somewhat less successful (and the girls are not helped by an unfortunate etymological process which has added an unlooked for ribaldry to the operetta). Only Celia (Miss Elinor Martin) has the wild-eyed boredom proper to a group of immortals who cannot determine why they bother to trip their completely meaningless measures. And Miss Colleen Ryan, the Queen of the Fairies, despite her attractive contralto voice, lacks the heavy authority of a true monarch...
This three-hour book was quarried by Peter Stone from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, who dug his drama out of Alexandre Dumas père. Long after chronic boredom has set in, Actor Drake is made to muse...
...They're merely dreadful," his Weariness, who had been to the railway station to welcome the Royal travelers, murmured in a voice extinct with boredom...
...Dino is a failed artist whose canvas is literally empty. Life is a bore, boredom equals artistic impotence. Enter Cecilia. From then on, the empty canvas scarcely matters because Dino's bed is always full...
...show that Dino is trying to achieve "reality"' by rediscovering the human touch. But when Cecilia takes on another lover, Dino is stuck in his Moravian hell indeed. In the end. nothing is solved or changed. After all, says Moravia, The Empty Canvas is about "my kind of boredom...