Still, Lily's reasoning was very sensible, and she was right that I was bored, I am often bored, and I felt a strange relief and, behind the relief, a faint sadness.
When forced to watch socially conscious documentaries in school, I was often bored and daydreamed about what I would do after last period.
I'm not often bored; I look around and see people I want to talk to, kids I want to challenge, literature I want to read and things I want to think, and there's not enough time in the day.
Consequently, I was often bored shitless and resentful.
But Daniel is often bored, or he looks bored, anyway, and when he does I can't stop myself from trying to steer him to a book, halting him in his tracks with a chirpy, "Let's read!" I scour library shelves on his behalf, talk up books my friends' kids are reading, read with and to him, try to fan whatever spark I see dimly lit.
He was often bored by school, she said, and he sometimes cut classes.
Padding around in his family's modest ranch house last week, Michael said he was often bored, but he expressed most concern for his stunted social life and the notion, spread by news reports last year, that he is a budding killer.
Workers in three other categories also smoke a lot, they say: glaziers (who hang from the outside of buildings), insulation layers (who are often bored) and Slavic laborers (especially, they said, Russians and Poles).
It may well have been exasperation or boredom (for he was often bored) that made him decide, when the lunch concluded, to clear his head and walk home alone to his apartment on the rue Servandoni.
An enigmatic work whose characters, often bored and identified only by initials, live in an otherworldly chateau, not sure whether they are planning seductions or remembering them, "Last Year in Marienbad" was released in the United States in early 1962 and became one of the most talked-about art films of the year.
Ms Ravenscroft, who brought up the couple's four children in the area, said: "They had nothing like this at all and were quite often bored.
