Sentence examples for playing bored from inspiring English sources

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That's two prominent guest stars in a row (Julia Ormond last week, Alexis Bledel from "Gilmore Girls" this week), both of them playing bored women in search of any kind of escape from the voids at the center of their conventional lives.

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In Souvenir, she plays bored paté factory worker, Lilliane, whose daily routine involves a monotonous job and a lonely evening, drinking in front of the television.

You can play bored games or hide and seek.

She was playing a bored French housewife in Luis Bunuel's "Belle de Jour" the year Ms. Bonnaire was born.

The average English-speaker gets out 150 words a minute, so let's say 180-plus for gabbling, crazed comics playing to bored, sceptical audiences.

Roger McGough and the Liverpool poets considered the theatre their home – Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine opened there in 1986, with Noreen Kershaw playing the bored scouse housewife who reinvents herself in the Greek sunshine.

Not only was Kerr – virginal and Englishly uptight as she seemed to me back then – playing a bored, randy wife with an eye on Lancaster's muscled physique, but the most mousey and (to me) sexless American TV star of the 1950s, Donna Reed, was playing a prostitute.

My own knowledge was limited to seeing the Alain Resnais film "Last Year at Marienbad," in which Delphine Seyrig, playing a bored housewife, wanders through corridors of an elegant chateau, wearing designer clothes and trying to remember whether she'd been there the year before.

In Montenegro, Susan plays a bored blond housewife from America living with her very boring Swedish husband.

In "Belle de Jour" (1967), Catherine Deneuve plays a bored young newlywed who takes an afternoon job at a brothel.

His mum, a prominent actress in her day, plays a bored housewife who's fantasises about screwing the plumber, played by the artist's dad.

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