Sentence examples for desperately bored from inspiring English sources
At the Zaatari camp, a desolate tent city where nearly half of the 25,000 residents are younger than 12 and desperately bored, many of the children retain a disarming innocence.
The Wart regards this as a huge improvement over logic and Latin, and one evening, when he is desperately bored, he goes to Merlyn and begs for another lesson.
At some point you're going to crack, either because you've had two virtuous months and you're desperately bored, or because the whole thing seems so daunting that you feel like giving up on day three, when your New Year hangover has cleared and you're back on solids.
Compared with Arbus's self-possessed, monumental dwarfs, transvestites, twins, carny folk, nudists, prodigious babies, aging dames, desperately bored suburbanites, and young people palpably facing long odds in life, even the most rigorous pictures by her particular artistic heroes — Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lisette Model — can seem sentimentally overburdened.
To the desperately bored children, the derrick was a focus of attention So were sections of piping four feet in diameter strewn around on the ground near it; the children made use of them as a playground, crawling through the sections that were lying on the ground and climbing into the sections standing on end.
It was a grim day outside and the "clients" wore winter coats and grave expressions: a sad, soft-spoken succession of 30-odd adults furrowing their brows, and a few desperately bored kids kicking their chair legs.
This is the story of why those films leave me cold, bored and searching desperately for the eject button.
A few days after the gala, she performed the role of Tatiana in "Onegin," a ballet based on Pushkin's novel in verse about a bored dandy who falls desperately in love with a girl he once humiliated.
"The central character, who's rich and bored and lives in a villa near Cannes, gets desperately fond of a cocky young boy from the local ballet company, and– " "Hold your horses," I said.
The screenwriters of the 1985 comedy "Desperately Seeking Susan" chose to make Rosanna Arquette's character, Roberta Glass, a bored housewife who becomes obsessed with Madonna's character, a resident of a Fort Lee high-rise.
