Sentence examples for class bored from inspiring English sources

In class, bored and unimpressed with the teachers – who in turn resented what they perceived as a disrespectful attitude – he secretly read all forty volumes of Goethe, and it has been recently argued that this was an important influence on his thought and methodology Before entering the university, he would read many other classical works.

"Here I am, sitting in math class, bored, and here's Malala speaking to all these really powerful people and not even breaking a sweat.

Following orders from local Soviet bosses, Mr. Ovsyanov's military engineering class bored hundreds of holes in the ruins of the city's 13th-century castle, packed them with dynamite and began blasting away 700 years of history.

Tova Ross HastiN.Y.on-Hudson, N.Y., Aug. 30, 2009 • To the Editor: I remember sitting in high school English class, bored out of my mind, pulling a paperback from a bookshelf that just happened to be within my reach.

A third-rate 18th-century pornographer has nothing to offer anybody today, apart from an upper middle class bored with its own porn and eager for something fresh and an intelligensia that finds squalor hip and itself sophisticated for saying so.

These are the sorts of repetitious squiggles of toys and superheroes a teenager might do at the back of the class when bored, except that, with Perry, each different version of Alan ties into the overall scheme of his art.

I've watched as a class of bored and reluctant boys come alive with a pen and paper and a drum beat, thanks to Brown's infectious ability to open up these closed down kids.

Growing up in lower middle-class Manchester, bored by school and beset by teenage anomie, Mr. Coogan escaped into a fantasy world fueled by television and by comedians like the Monty Python troupe, Tony Hancock and Bob Newhart.

It was the beginning of service-industry Britain, and as such was the perfect preparation for his next book, Beyond Caring, made inside British DHSS offices, where men and women – many of them from the suddenly unemployed industrial working classes – sat bored and hopeless and fuddled by red tape.

And there are a couple of scenes which are clearly taken from this hugely popular television series, particularly a scene in the English class where the bored, disaffected kids gradually become interested in the Shakespeare sonnet they have been set as an assignment.

Items assessed both emotional and behavioral engagement (e.g., "I pay attention to my science teacher," "Working on science is interesting") and disaffection (e.g., "When we work on something in science class, I feel bored," "I don't try very hard in science").