Sentence examples for boredom like from inspiring English sources

In "Birds," we are told, "The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves".

Boredom, like the modern novel, was born in the 18th century, and came into full flower in the 19th.

The prison's visiting room has an atmosphere of casual boredom, like the waiting room of a doctor's office.

"There is no boredom like that of an intelligent woman who spends all day with a very small child," she has written of this period.

On motherhood: "There is no boredom like that of an intelligent woman who spends all day with a very small child".

The modern history of mainstream sports is littered with pairings born of boredom, like the football-soccer-Frisbee amalgam known as Ultimate.

Photograph: Sean Smith As a ready cure for boredom, I like to daydream about the bookshop I am going to own in a pleasant Georgian block on a pedestrianised street somewhere in central London.

In an attempt to distinguish between boredom and liking, boredom is defined operationally by the change in liking with repeated ingestion, and not defined by the degree of liking itself.

But we're not as connected with our bodies as we used to be – we eat out of boredom or, like, convenience, or, like, to stay awake to get stuff done.

Boredom, as I like to think Santino illustrates, is a pretty straightforward emotion.

Tennis aficionado David Foster Wallace said that watching televised golf means "crushing, crushing boredom... like you've never known will wash over you and just about kill you"; while Jonathan Franzen has written that he dislikes "almost everything about it.