Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michelango Antonioni's "L'Avventura" has been called one of the 10 best films of all time (International Critics Poll, Sight and Sound), a boring film about boredom (John Simon) and, in Antonioni's own words, "a mystery film in reverse," but, to this reviewer's knowledge, it has not...
"I hate soccer--it's so boring," someone claimed. "Nobody ever scores."
Bridge wasn't boring, and Cole had natural talent for the game.
"Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear--it misses the point somehow," writes Hornby. You want entertainment? Go to the circus, or the theater, or the symphony.
Not that the game was boring. It's just that the action on the field didn't seem to be the whole story of the football game.