Sentence examples for boredom on from inspiring English sources

"On a sunny afternoon when everyone is outside, one would do best to hang about in the train station or, better yet, stay at home, draw the curtains, and surrender oneself to one's boredom on the sofa," he wrote.

When their bouts of rumination were over, the students rated their enjoyment and boredom on a scale from one (not at all) to nine (extremely), with a midpoint of five (somewhat).

Busyness is the forward momentum on the tightrope of life that prevents us from falling into the abyss of self-consciousness on one side and boredom on the other.

According to Csikszentmihalyi (1975), when a person is working on a task, if the task is far below the one's ability, it will induce boredom; on the contrary, if the task is far above the one's ability, it will induce anxiety.

The accomplishments are undeniable but, on the eve of this retrospective, one is reminded (by Nietzsche) of "god's boredom on the seventh day of creation".

Only boredom on a near universal scale could explain the attraction of either.

He pointed to "the boredom one senses on all sides, the torpor, the anxiety, the listlessness".

It takes a great deal more impetus than boredom to put one on, or even to seek one out.

Blame it on boredom or on too much time studying the accumulating dust on the fan blades, but these past few weeks, I've become obsessed with cleaning my house.

Below are ten splendid contemporary, futuristic-sounding R&B songs for you to enjoy once you get a break from listening to Ariel Pink and the Boredoms on repeat.

Some of them complained of boredom while on tour in Russia, and of being watched constantly.