Sentence examples for boring affair from inspiring English sources

PREVIEWS of this week's Supreme Court hearings, if they're read between the lines, hint at the possibility of a boring affair that promises none of the antics of the months-long run-up.

This is the "gilded age" of any given technology, "a great surge of development", as Ms Perez calls technological revolutions.The second, or "deployment", period is a much more boring affair.

The German Grand Prix at Hockenheim on Sunday began looking as if it might end up a boring affair as Fernando Alonso scored pole position during a superb qualifying in treacherous, wet conditions and the Spaniard in the Ferrari looked set to hold onto the lead to the end.

We're used to teardowns being a pretty simple, somewhat boring affair.

In this way the usual account of the history of Western painting entails the idea that before modernism, painting was sometimes a fairly boring affair.

Most people's daily commute is a pretty boring affair: get to train station, get on train, ride to destination, vice versa and repeat.

Fighting the newer mosquito breeds is a small-bore affair (read: labor-intensive) that leaves no bottle cap unturned.

"So unlike those boring seated affairs," said Sherwin Goldman, the New York City Opera's executive producer.

When that happens, the underlying partisanship kicks in, and most such contests are boring, predictable affairs -- meaning that all the real action was determining which candidate associated with the majority party advanced to the runoff.

Get used to the fact that being with a Leo is all about embracing the highs and the lows, and that being with her will rarely be a boring, tame affair.

They are so effing smart!" [Laughs.] Let's all agree that dragging out a triangle/love affair is just boring.