How keep him from boring himself to death-or, at least back to lassitude and flab?
"The worst sort of chatterbox is the chatterbox who bores himself," noted the Mail on Sunday's Craig Brown.
The pages are bleached of all emotional meaning, and how the author got through them all without boring himself to death is a mystery.
Credit where it's due, he has improved a lot, either because the BBC has tried to respond to the richly-deserved criticism of Match of the Day or because Shearer was even boring himself to tears.
The director, one of the smartest working in Hollywood today, does not want to play it safe or risk boring himself, but the result is an arch, convoluted mess.
Odum has paid a personal price for doing his devious patriotic duty: he suffers from migraine headaches; his occasional lover finds her side of their relationship "like sleepwalking through a string of one-night stands that were physically satisfying but emotionally frustrating"; he plans to spend the rest of his life, he confesses to her, "boring himself to death".
And subsequent watchings of "The Fugitive" reveal a monotone Tommy Lee Jones -- seemingly boring himself with his monotone performance -- while that of Fiennes in "Schindler's List" grows more complex and intense -- a nuanced study of a psychopath in a position of power, the very personification of evil during the Holocaust.
"Steven is a man," she reminds Mary, explaining that her husband is just bored with himself after having been married 12 years and worried because he's growing older.
He bemoaned, among other things: being bored with himself, his voice, his whole approach; feeling embarrassed by the nostalgia and reckless naivete of his older songs; fearing that the album, as a concept, was now obsolete; and loathing the idea of sharing his music with anyone because something personal is irrevocably lost in the process.
Doesn't Daley find it boring chucking himself off boards into water umpteen times a day during what could have been the best years of his life?
