And now when you get bored of a game, you don't have to take the whole phone apart just to switch to a new one.
The polite smile offered by a bored salesclerk (or by someone hearing a joke for the 100th time) pulls up the lips but, literally, stops there.
The notion of a bored Manhattan wife being hit on by a uniformed Russian brute is just the kind of solid, old-fashioned fantasy that Madonna, in her corseted pomp, would have fed into a pop video.
"This is a fader that I made when I was a little bored and somewhat inspired on a long weekend in between finals, " the creator writes.
On the platform, a solitary busker sings songs from The Lion King to bored passengers and a cat snoozes under a stack of luggage.
It would be nice, therefore, to believe that somewhere, the contemporary equivalent of a bored patent clerk is thinking about the problem, and that when he has thought hard enough, a new reality will emerge.
The yell tradition was born during a 1907 football drubbing, when male students donned janitors' coveralls and began leading chants to entertain bored students from a nearby women's college.
While many people start playing a social game but later get bored and quit after a few weeks or maybe months, Meteor Games is designing its games to have much more content, narrative and strategy so that people will play for 12 to 24 months.
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Comedians like Ellen Degeneres and Whoopi Goldberg have held their own as awards show hosts in the past, and we all remember a very theatrical Anne Hathaway co-hosting the Oscars with a very bored (or stoned?) James Franco a few years back, unfortunately.
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It went -- bored down in a way that maybe is unprecedented actually, in a way.
Toni Collette plays Muriel, the shyest member of a bored and bulbous family living in Porpoise Spit.
If you're bored, get a hammer and chisel and start chiselling something or do the washing up.
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But I think airports are getting better, because people have realized that you have a captive audience a bored captive audience.
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"I have heard about it in the literature, " he says of the latest gadgets, with a bored expression on his face.
She imagined him as a bored high-school shark, moving slow and silent through the halls, heavy with his own power and cravings.
One commercial opens with a bored couple sitting across from each other.
Leaders who are bored, in a rut, or otherwise find themselves anesthetized by the routine have a huge problem - they are not leading.
Such labors as the forty-eight hours of preparation that the mission entailed are wearisome enough to get through, let alone describe for a bored boyfriend.
Matt Damon, looking puffy and almost bored, is a medium with unwanted powers: by holding the hands of the grief-struck, he can briefly summon the recent dead.
Just like restaurants prey on the hungry and doctors prey on the sick and talk-show hosts prey on the people who are too bored to read a book.
So now is sort of like his busy time, so he was getting a little bored.
BNFL's faked safety data were not redundant, nor simply due to a few bored workers.
It may be that eventually Freddy Heineken became a little bored with the beer he made famous.
One phrase kept popping in my mind to characterize the tone of the response: Just a little bored.
The trade job Huang landed at Commerce bored him but offered a chance to indulge his passion for networking.
But after using it for months and months, I find myself getting a little bored of my own taste.
It allows traders to become bored and impatient with a name, and that is a sign that fresh money has an opportunity to take it higher.
Bear in mind that pretty much anyone can front a well-made YouTube video and think twice about whether this is all just a bit of fun for a few bored people on their summer break.
Lately, when I tell stories of folks who have built great things over the course of a long career, or who have had remarkable success in a second (or third) career later in life, the reaction is often polite and a little bored.
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