She makes it obvious that people with pulled-together public faces bored her.
As I babbled on, gaily, narcissistically, blindly, I did not notice that my parents, in the front seat, had fallen completely silent, their faces bored, tight, and disapproving — until, after twenty minutes, they could bear it no longer, and my father burst out violently: "Enough about thallium!" No doubt anyone would have responded the same way.
In the face of boring, day-to-day stuff like time and place, Wonder has repeatedly shown himself capable of an indifference bordering on the heroic.
Writing is onerous (especially with an ultra-thin pencil) — writing feels like work because it is work — and, day by day, life is pretty routine, repetitive, and, we should face it, boring.
This works because humans are lazy in the face of boring and/or complex looking stuff.
Only painting pink faces is boring, so I do variations.
Staying blank faced and bored in the face of on-screen masked sodomy made me feel strained.
Hers stood out in the rows of boring faces.
Even breast-feeding her child is fraught with disappointment: "When I was tired or raw or, let's face it, just bored, I would look through a catalog or watch the news while she nursed, and I could feel guilt lurking just below my consciousness".
De La Hoya added: "Let's face it: You were boring.
