Sentence examples for dreadful bore from inspiring English sources

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Adam is, as it were, a decent enough chap -- just decent enough to pass judgment on the mores of his milieu without turning into a dreadful bore.

The only thing more dreary, in fact, than the sense of misery and self-pity that such tiredness can induce is hearing your own voice echoed back at you and realising what a dreadful bore you've become.

Pete Hamill, another white liberal who would eventually come to adore the fighter, wrote in the New York Post, "Cassius Clay is a young man with a lot of charm who is in danger of becoming a dreadful bore".

It's not hard to see why the enforced tranquillity of a Caribbean vacation could be a dreadful bore for a workaholic but bliss for a couch potato; temperament, as well as talent, have to match the activity or there is trouble in paradise.

I hope it's because the exercise is hypnotic and not because the dialogue I write is a dreadful bore.

A particularly scathing review came from Brian Orndorf of Dark Horizons, who commented: "Perhaps the first 3D motion picture to simulate the experience of watching paint dry, Resident Evil: Afterlife is a dreadful bore that only occasionally comes to life".

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The pair were given a two-year jail term for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" and finally released a little early by order of the president they despise.The singers' trial in which "feminist beliefs" were cited as proof of extremism and the dreadful conditions of their imprisonment bore witness to many of the worst features of Mr Putin's Russia.

The maps of World War II, for example, were incredibly propagandist, depicting "dreadful red bears and red perils," Brotton says.

Tom says publisher's memoirs are a bore, citing Tom Maschler's recent effort, which had dreadful reviews.

Of course, the brunt of this government's dreadful austerity will be borne by women.

Saul Eslake, of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Australia, calls it a "dreadful policy" that would not bear out Mr Abbott's claim that it would raise productivity.

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