Sentence examples for on a bored from inspiring English sources

The dark comedy, which The Daily Telegraph's critic described as "occasionally dazzling", centres on a bored office drone who spectacularly goes off the rails.

At worst it might turn out painful, boring or mind-numbingly repetitive, but it looks so damn shiny on the tin and that's what matters on a bored Saturday night.

They include "Love Affairs Usually End Badly" (1993), about a woman torn between two lovers, and "Dry Cleaning" (1997), about the life-altering effects of a drag queen on a bored small-town couple.

In the title story of this astonishing collection of short nonfiction, Sacco focuses on a bored ex-mercenary with nothing to do after the end of the long and horrifically bloody war.

On a bored Sunday whim, he'd brought his wife and son and daughter, expecting to revisit the rooms where he'd first had sex, first got drunk, first dropped acid, but, instead, had found himself in the house next door, and his wife, untutored in any kind of context, had fallen in love.

The impetus was a competition proposed by Percy's friend Lord Byron as a diversion on a bored night in Geneva: neither Byron nor Percy managed to complete anything consequential, and the remaining competitor, Byron's personal doctor, John Polidori, squeezed out a small, thin-blooded tale called "The Vampyre".

Sort of a concept piece (based on her live show), the songs center on the fantastic sexploits of a bored secretary named Barbara Brockhaus.

She received her best reviews for her portrayal of a bored housewife on the Arizona-Mexico border in "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," although Internet posters seem much more interested in her fleeting appearances in films like "Love Actually" and "Anger Management," roles that required her to giggle and be pretty but not much else.

Burma Shave signs still marked the two-lane highways between New York and Florida, and the South of the Border motel had beds that vibrated for 25 cents and were the highlight of the drive to spring training for a bored child on this annual three-day trip.

They are made of some reptilian synthetic, and the fabric has a print of mustard-and-brown squares that might have been adapted from the back of an envelope on which a bored Prada was doodling.

This week we look at the work of: Andrew Marr, the sodomites on HBO and a bored Paul Merton.