Left to himself--left with himself--he is bored, anxious.

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He is said to view the chancellor, who revels in high diplomacy but is bored by economics, as one big obstacle to reform.

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"If you ask people why they do it, they give you answers like, they're bored and violence is exciting, " he said.

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So now is sort of like his busy time, so he was getting a little bored.

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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.

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There's one where he's having a job interview, and the interviewer is munching on a sandwich, completely bored and completely disinterested in what Richardson's says his accomplishments are.

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