The project was started by Stanford University design students who spent six months observing Bay Area classrooms only to discover that students were not only bored, but also extremely fearful of getting answers wrong.
She was only pretending to be bored, it seemed, fingering the lid of Jeb's cigar box.
They hate it because it has a shipped in a pseudo-studio audience who are only there to look bored and go "Weeeey" whenever prompted.
He muses on a Heidegger essay on boredom: "It is only when one is bored, that one's consciousness settles, reluctantly or even fearfully, on oneself and the nature of one's own existence". Nothing could be less boring that what Kiefer is doing, but something of this restless transcendence is achieved by Kiefer's work – and Fiennes's film.
We are not only bored and wearied but, more important, we may find something offensive about having to admire the virtues of aristocrats -- or of cities or nations.
Conveniently, to escape the discomfort of being not only bored, but also increasingly paranoid, more device usage ensues and the cycle continues.
"I was only afraid that she would be bored," he said.
Little kids will be bored, as there are only a few scenes with any action, and of those, only one, featuring an enormous skeleton with swords sticking out of its skull, has any oomph.
I jog her imagination to reality occasionally; but she accepts the whole thing, and is really interested in it - not bored as I am!" Only when personal concerns were at stake did he take any interest in events.
It goes: car, then sports car, then golden sports car, then yacht, then yacht full of attractive people having fun, then yacht full of people who are bored because it's only a yacht, then private jet, then private jet full of identical twentysomethings all looking out of the window in a weird pastiche of intellectual depth.
Instead of being supervised by well-meaning teachers, the people in charge are just other bored students who are only interesting in making you do humiliating "bonding activities".
