There is no room for boredom or passively observing.
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As the modern antidote for boardroom boredom, cellular phones have allowed jaded executives to play the addictive Snake or text rude jokes to their colleagues under the cover of a conference table.
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It is usually carried out by young adult males for amusement, boredom and revenge, he adds.
For others, boredom isn't the biggest challenge of managing Internet relationships.
The she-bot features 30 motors spread throughout its body with an additional eight motors in its face for expressing general boredom and disgust with the help.
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True, many in Beijing, especially those whose counterparts in the capitalist world are called yuppies, affect a boredom for the games (Pan-Pan, the games' panda mascot, is irritatingly ubiquitous).
The quest for the constantly new was driven by a lightning-quick mind and short attention span for anything that failed to interest him, the fear of boredom, and an insatiable need for intellectual stimulation.
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Some of their work, like data entry, is tough to make stimulating for even the most keen boredom scholar.
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With a blandly dismissive anti-romanticism, the director sees through the pretenses of civility to the mediocrity, disappointment, venality, gullibility, duplicity, and boredom that pass for daily life.
"I had found lion research to be much less exciting than I'd expected - hours and hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer boredom, waiting for the lazy beasts to do something, " he said.
Before the latest Balkan war, all in the region had been hoping for a long period of boredom, in which historical grudges, especially those involving Russians and their former empire, would fade and economic ties across the Baltic Sea would continue their sprightly growth.
Motivated by curiosity, boredom, and hunger for a little power, they range from the mildly annoying (such as the Hacking for Girlies group that brought down the New York Times site on the day the Starr Report came out) on up to the criminal "crackers" (such as Vladimir Levin, who allegedly transferred millions of dollars from Citibank's mainframe computers to accounts in Finland and Israel).
Chan is still analyzing what drives folks back to work--boredom or financial need, for example.
Other passengers reported long lines waiting for food, water shortages and widespread boredom.
Sure, include a remastered soundtrack and make them look all spiffed up for the Blu-Ray, but give us the old films back, not the new bastardized versions Lucas foisted upon us for no good reason other than vanity and boredom.
Passengers reported long lines for food, shortages of fresh water and widespread boredom.
In the case of stay-at-home fathers, it's important for men to counter any issues of isolation and boredom by making sure they maintain friendships and interests outside the house.
Because any time the slightest whiff of boredom sets in, the kids start robotically groping for it.
To apply yourself to a field or to a problem for that long a time means there will inevitably be moments of boredom and tedium.
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Molina is the real draw of the film, opting not for the standard evil genius but for a good, sorrowing genius who is nudged into malice by boredom and bereavement.
The church was the first sponsoring organization I had ever seen in Oak Lawn Baseball and Softball that put a website on the uniform instead of a phone number, and that was done with the idea that parent parked in their lawn chairs for two hours would look at it, if nothing else, out of curiosity or boredom.
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To define and measure boredom, Dr. Eastwood and other researchers simulate extremely dull conditions in the laboratory for participants, typically college students.
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But Spielberg has indicated boredom with action films in some recent interviews, and though no explanation was offered for the delay, aside from a statement from Spielberg's rep that it wasn't ready and was too expensive to move forward without a polished script, the "Lincoln" filmmaker may simply not be as enamored with the brutal extinction story as he once was.
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