Sentence examples for bored seems from inspiring English sources

Even "being bored" seems like a distinctly 1980s concept from our culture of 24/7 constant distraction: if he'd been a student now, Vyvyan wouldn't have to stay up all night staring at the fuzz on the TV because it's stopped broadcasting for the night.

In light of the Supreme Court's recent decision to allow corporations to spend without limit in political campaigns, readers of Jennifer Schuessler's entertaining essay on the literature of boredom ("Our Boredom, Ourselves," Jan . 24 may enjoy learning that in 19th-century America, "boring" seems to have been the word for what we call "lobbying".

A soft blanket of boring seems to have settled over this city and the European institutions it hosts.

Director Louis Malle captures it all effortlessly, though the effort in making two guys sitting at a table not become boring seems daunting.

But boring Lauren seems to have gotten over it, saying simply, "He's not super nice," about Spencer and the sex tape rumor.

The flip side, of course, is that boring events seem to drag on.

Mr Roberts leaves the reader uninterested in these reflections and seems bored by them himself.

As his book progresses, Clegg himself seems bored by even the most piquant episodes.

His conversational style is scattergun; one minute he seems bored, the next more focused.

He seems bored by this security effort, perhaps because it doesn't involve blowing anything up.

In his own recent novel, "Spectacular Happiness," Kramer himself seems bored with the topic.