Instead, blind loyalty condemns us to the tattier corner of terrestrial TV, settling in for 10 weeks of bubbling passive aggression, hollow showmances and violent boredom.
(Sinagra) SLIPKNOT (Sunday, Monday and Tuesday) Lest anyone think life in the Midwest is all scrapbooking and apple pie, these self-styled Iowa miscreants put on a violent professional-wrestling-like show, spewing odes to teenage toxicity and violent boredom through holes in grotesque masks.
In that context, "pulling a sickie" is less a mischievous excuse to lounge about than it is a necessary defence against the violent, stressful boredom that is being at work.
In that context, "pulling a sickie" is less a mischievous excuse to lounge about than it is a necessary defence against the violent, stressful boredom that is being at work.
"Lilibet, goaded by boredom to violent measures, had picked up a big silver inkpot and, without any warning, tipped it over her own head".
JS Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Outwardly successful young suburbanites Frank and April Wheeler go from mutual tolerance and boredom to violent loathing as their lives of unquiet desperation begin to unravel.
It was these that JG Ballard noticed sprouting among the leylandii along his own tarmac backwater in the early 2000s, and which led him to write Kingdom Come, his final novel – a characteristically minatory vision of an Ingerland driven into the arms of bigotry and violent civil unrest by sheer boredom.
In Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 cult novel "Fight Club," a young man escapes the emasculating boredom of modern life by indulging his violent, antisocial impulses.
Sixty percent of the population is under the age of 25, preyed upon by violent gangs and Islamic radicals, and crippled by drug abuse and boredom.
Different factors, such as anxiety, boredom, lack of information, lack of understanding of triage times and categories, and waiting times, may influence violent behavior [ 2, 5, 20, 21].
Here, terror is the first pillar of the system, and boredom is the second: "boredom is no longer the absence of emotion; it is itself an emotion, and a violent one".
