Place always bores itself into his flesh and soul.
"It is more difficult, and more necessary, at the same time," Mr. Mann said recently, speaking of the ticklish art of making movies that keep the system from boring itself, and the audience along with it.
If Hollywood is boring itself with its endless procession of sequels and remakes quite as much as it is us, then it might like to consider another low-effort way to alchemise box-office gold from immediately recognisable elements; we're talking about the literary mash-up.
Perhaps we're bored with boredom itself.
In the studio itself, bored guys aurally simulate human atrocity by whacking and stabbing vegetables, while female stars give operatic screams in the sound booth.
If you're just bored, the site itself offers a lot of browsing functions: you can see the most viewed videos of the day, or the highest rated ones, or the most linked ones, or the most discussed ones, whatever.
Hervé Bourges, a former head of the Higher Audiovisual Council, noted wryly, "Now France can watch itself being bored".
Maybe as boring as marriage itself.
B You like the clothes, but sport itself bores you.
In fact, it's always a thing of boring beauty in itself.
A massive island of pesto enveloping ravioli (stuffed with spinach, ricotta and roasted garlic) was aromatic, though a bit boring all by itself.
