With the debut of new academic papers and symposia on boredom in the workplace and cross-cultural experiences of inactivity and boredom, there is a boomlet in boredom studies.
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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.
In their view, by filling almost every second of down time by peering at our phones we are missing out on the creative and potentially rewarding ways we've dealt with boredom in days past.
Probably my mother told me this in a moment of adult boredom or whimsy, and then my father came home from work and joined in, also in a whimsical way.
Because any time the slightest whiff of boredom sets in, the kids start robotically groping for it.
If boredom sets in, look up CHIP or TANF.
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Arzu Yonak says she shopped out of boredom growing up in rural Ohio.
The pain and boredom we experience in the initial stage of learning a skill toughens our minds, much like physical exercise.
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In fact, you risk audience boredom unless the conversation is very, very fascinating.
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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She instructed the boy to perform the stretching exercises every single day and not to let boredom or a reduction in symptomology keep him from doing them in a disciplined way.
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.
The senior researcher at the University of East Anglia's School of Education and Lifelong Learning interviewed a number of authors, artists and scientists in her exploration of the effects of boredom.
The soul-sapping boredom of it all is reflected in its urgent spawning of ever-more-extreme cheap thrills.
In any event, you must meet any boredom head-on and not try to avoid or repress it.
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The most intolerable boredom associated with terror is sitting in a hospital emergency room awaiting the disposition of a loved one.
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Viewers watch several families in progressive stages of confusion, mourning and boredom, eating the same boxed lunches each day, trying to find employment and waiting with a mixture of anticipation and dread to return to Futaba.
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From my perch as a coach, I see boredom as an insidious, undermining influence in companies.
He chews on a bamboo shoot and eyes us with world-weary boredom, as if we were tiresome in-laws.
So in the Iraqi situation, I know that there is boredom and it's an incredibly stressful job.
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).
Sure, having it near can keep me from the vagaries of boredom when stuck at a train crossing or in a waiting room, but it can also lead me to do hideous things like check Twitter when I really should be playing with my kids.
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She spent nearly three years studying boredom among the Warlpiri people, an aboriginal group in the central Australian settlement of Yuendumu.
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Dr Belton, who is an expert in the impact of emotions on behaviour and learning, said boredom could be an "uncomfortable feeling" and that society had "developed an expectation of being constantly occupied and constantly stimulated".
Apart from its run-in with Brussels, the only other problem that the sport faces is boredom.
However wrapped up in sonorous stuff about synergy, plenty of mergers begin with sheer executive boredom.
While such research is done in a number of countries, Canada seems to be a hotbed of boredom studies.
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Frances Crook, director of the Howard League, said boredom, isolation and lack of meaningful activity played a role in many of the deaths.
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