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Commenting on a play by Karel Capek about a women who at age 42 receives immortality and by age 342 no longer wants to live, Williams wrote: "Her trouble was, it seems, boredom: a boredom connected with the fact that everything that could happen and make sense to one human being of 42 [biological age] had already happened to her" by age 342 (82).
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Many times what seems like boredom is actually avoidance of a task that you don't want to do.
It may seem that boredom is a natural human trait, something that's been around as long as people have.
Conversely, job boredom seems to impede job crafting.
(The third phase of his project seems to be "boredom").
Even boredom seems to be in its last throes: designers in Japan have found a way to make our train trips perpetually fun-filled.
Economic activity in refugee camps seems to alleviate boredom and improve mental health, but Zughbi and Balkes were both marine engineers in Syria (and Zughbi was a chief marine engineer).
And besides, boredom seems to be a non-problem: after all, if an immortal does ever get truly bored of his vastly extended life, there would be nothing to prevent him from ending it.
Efforts to show the interior lives of the characters come through in wide, honey-colored shots, composed like photographs and sustained by a staring camera that seems paralyzed with boredom.
Boredom seems inevitable.
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