In spite of round-the-clock work, progress on boring a huge tunnel into the earth was not up to mark.
It was also a lot less boring and a lot more fun to play.
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There is a boring Luca Giordano and a meretricious pair of Mel Ramos breasts.
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Lloyds TSB was a boring bank, it was a steady bank, it hadn't done silly things.
Once all the modular constraints had been accommodated, the Bentley's stylists were left with a fat, boring cube of a truck.
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When all the students tackled the same problems a second time, those who had done a simple, boring task during a break had more creative ideas than those who were assigned a tough cognitive puzzle, those who rested, or those who didn't take a break, says the study, co-authored by Jonathan Schooler, a psychology professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
That's the thing, Cable: You were boring to a fault, but you worked the way you were supposed to most of the time.
The reason for the success was the translation from a boring one-on-one task to a design appealing to human instincts of cooperation and competition.
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If you grew up in a boring, white British environment, it showed you a place with black faces, different cultures and creeds and people living together in harmony.
Lincoln sounded like a boring high school history class come to life, yet it became a critical and box-office triumph.
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You know, we're in a boring stage of the Internet, if you will, where it's a utility.
It is still seen as a boring company to buy from, even though its Surface and OS promotional campaigns drew a lot of attention.
In its ruling, the Eighth Circuit denied an application from the NLRB to enforce its decision in a dispute between American Directional Boring Inc. and a St.
We're not just staring down a boring press release of Samsung's new X360, we actually got to fiddle around with it for a few minutes and came away fairly impressed.
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For years, the Nationalmannschaft, as the team is known, was a pillar of organization and fairly boring soccer played by a homogenous group.
Michael Nyqvist plays a slightly boring journalist named Blomkvist, who is hired by a rich old man (Sven-Bertil Taube) to probe the disappearance of a teen-age girl, forty years before.
Read it before a long journey, and you may regard the boring old motorway with a new appreciation.
Your player was utterly crippled, somehow, by his acquisition of an incredibly powerful weapon, and so you press one button over and over until the game appeared to end before jetting off to the present for a modern-day platforming section so long and boring it felt like a tech demo of a jump button.
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Self-driving cars would be the great liberator of people for whom driving is a boring necessity.
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The market expects a boring report from the future governor of the Bank of England.
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While Thor over-enunciates and Captain America powers through with a boring do-gooder attitude, Stark keeps things fun.
Put quite simply, you cannot pay readers to click on a bad headline or a boring story.
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We don't want to drive around in a boring car--we want to "unlock" the invincible bicycle instead.
During a boring speech by Bill Frist, the leader of the Senate, most delegates chatted among themselves.
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Sometimes they stare mindlessly at the CNN Airport Network or sit with glazed eyes in a boring meeting.
That's so you can discreetly check the time in a boring meeting without fussing with your shirt cuff.
Del Toro said that it would be boring to make a slavish adaptation.
Bureaucratic systems and processes were put in place to make the system tick over like a boring clockwork machine.
August has a history of being a boring month for news and controversy.
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