Listening to him speak, Americans chuckled inappropriately, anticipating "laugh lines where there were none"; Mandela's "formality, precision, and seriousness," Finnegan wrote, revealed "just how much we as a nation have come to regard politics as a form — a vulgar, usually boring form — of entertainment".
"What I think is worrying is that the shows are becoming completely part of the entertainment business, and the entertainment industry is boring" for those who come to see inspirational design, said Colin McDowell, who covers fashion for The Times of London.
"Entertainment bores me," Ms. Monnier said in an interview between trains at Les Deux Magots here.
But as we get bored of extreme entertainment, we demand even greater extremes; before you know it ITV will commission All-Celebrity Lion Taunting, and we'll be making birthday arrangements to hurl ourselves out of an biplane while strapped to someone we've only just met.
PICK OF THE WEEK Most of modern popular entertainment is overwrought and boring.
When her mom shows her daughter to the office she will occupy as urban entertainment executive, Brandy looks like a bored, uncomfortable kid marooned in her parents' boring workplace.
iPhone / iPad Making a good educational app for children can be a fine line between information and entertainment – a lot of attempts end up dry and boring.
TWO decades ago the firms supplying entertainment to British homes were busy, bootstrap and anything but boring.
Pro basketball, which after all was in the entertainment business, had committed a mortal sin: it had become boring.
That would be part of the holiday boost the firm sees every year, bolstered by people on Christmas break, bored and looking for entertainment, and by mobile shoppers.
