boredom

A State Government Employee sits in his office and out of boredom, decides to see what's in his old filing cabinet.

Hyperactivity is often a defense against boredom, and the fear of slowing down is really a fear of confronting yourself.

LIBRA & LIBRA: This is not a bad connection, but boredom can be a definite risk, as you will both expect to be entertained.

It's all too easy to let everyday life (stress, boredom, kids) get in the way of sex.

When my ex-wife and I socialised it was with mutual friends or business contacts, and last weekend was an orgy of boredom.

the train took her mind back to that morning in 1862 when she had come to Atlanta as a young widow, swathed in crepe and wild with boredom.

"Boredom, alienation and isolation are going to be factors, " he said.

The boredom and emptiness of a WoW-empty world was one of the reasons for this.

A certain power of enduring boredom is therefore essential to a happy life, and is one of the things that might to be taught to the young.

It shows how much we prefer excitement and danger to boredom and safety.

I felt the long, spread out boredom ahead of me to be almost unendurable.

I decided to think of it as a period of training in techniques for dealing with boredom.

To each of us, the process of learning may be full of frustrations and boredom, yet the fruit is often sweet and satisfactory.

Til boredom overtook us , and he began to speak .

The boredom cry is often rhythmical and also contains sobbing and moans.

At three I left the workhouse kitchen and went back to the spike. The, boredom in that crowded, comfortless room was now unbearable.

greed or boredom do not really explain why he took the bait.

No doubt boredom was among their greatest enemies, but of course the men are downplaying a significant ordeal.

In a state of numbness there is only boredom and the seeking of excitement through entertainment or emotional exchanges or even violence.

Her most recent great idea was born out of her boredom with her new life.

In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion.

Remember that boredom typically covers up anger. If you feel bored with him, ask yourself what you're angry about.

But be probably to chat once in a while to make petty action one people who finishes class but is only sits in boredom and the like.

I think he just need friends to boredom, so it does not care about her usual with him brawling.

That was just the sound of my life force being sucked into a shrieking vortex of infinite boredom.

To say that everybody had a blast is a gross overstatement, I know at least three people left early because of boredom.

But at the other end of the city summer is already offering us, by way of contrast, its other riches: I mean its silence and its boredom.

Then, out of curiosity, boredom, who knows what, I left the old world and came back to my America.

For the time being they had to make do with scrawling the words "Home Sweet Home" all over filthy windows out of boredom.

What change would you expect to see in a world that has declining levels of boredom and therefore declining creativity?

When boredom overtook us , he began to speak.

The boredom seems to be related to the permanent feeling of mild agony you get when you begin working on fitness.

The tension between these conflicting duties causes anxiety, and like boredom, anxiety must be escaped for a person to be happy.

Yes, there are marriages that crumble due to boredom, just as there are business that lose their customers due to a lack of imagination.

Lin Zhi: If you think I'm going to sit through another 90 minutes of boredom , you've got another think coming.

Blair: I'm calling it on account of boredom. You were right. Vanessa's not worth playing with.

However that may be, experience shows that escape from boredom is one of the really powerful desires of almost all human beings.

It may be a physical sensation, like an ache in the hip or a mental thought like boredom.

He nodded, then put the phone to his ear and, just before he started talking, decided that perhaps boredom was underrated after all.

The boredom of the two children in the dark, cramped bedroom became unbearable.

Boredom and anxiety can be alleviated in various ways, but the only way to escape despair is to have total faith in God.

Boredom is another kind of frustration, the kind that's born of a lack of challenge.

Third, some just take advantage of it to kill time, avoid boredom with much time at their own disposals , have someone keep company, etc.

I was happy enough, but inside me, like a warm, living animal, there was a feeling of boredom, loneliness and occasionally of exhilaration.

and trying to reduce the boredom that these animals can experience.

The suggestion is that this is more like an illness, with symptoms which might include depression, hyperactivity, boredom and loneliness.

Though getting married out of boredom was pretty pointless, there was still something positive in it.

Even if you really enjoy your job, it's still possible to battle boredom as you work your way toward the boardroom.

He spent his days at the home of AG, waiting to get a seat, and to relieve his boredom she took him to work one day.

so of the day on the surface is romantic had let us mind boredom.

At last after eating, he sank into deep sleep. In such a life there was neither time nor energy for boredom.

Married love teaches us that we bring all of ourselves into a marriage - anxiety, boredom, free-floating sadness and alarm.

But I this ordinary mortal rejoice to also haven't a few handsome boy in so longly of the boredom of the youth is can memorial.

But exhortations to improve energy efficiency are often greeted with a mixture of boredom and scepticism.

A person who has not changed his thinking is just one step away from sliding back into drinking under stress or out of boredom.

When your mind strays from your desk to the vending machine, it could be hunger or it could be boredom or irritation with your boss.

SOMETHING strange is happening in a usually quiet corner of the Arab world, often mocked as "the Hashemite kingdom of boredom" .

Leaning back in one's seat and yawning at a talk or lecture shows lack of interest, boredom.

He was petrified by boredom and his tiny mind squirmed like the snail-like meat inside a whelk.

More importantly, it aims to illuminate these individual expressions as more than just meaningless play borne out of boredom.

Objective: To understand the situation of boredom proneness and suicide ideation of college students.

If you don't want your date out of date, you'd better show your girlfriend funny jokes and odd stories to avoid boredom and embarrassment.

Humming like a bee around the house, I've never had the feeling of boredom and inanity.

Similarly, John F. Kennedy hated boredom above all else, as White House correspondent Nancy Dickerson recalls.

Aaron Brooks was the team leader, his predecessor having dropped dead two months earlier (of boredom, some had morosely joked).

To fight off the boredom during the first half at the Reebok on Saturday, I started comparing Premier League clubs to countries.

Dr. Raposa recognizes that boredom is going to affect all people. He explains the choice people have when boredom begins.

He has been blunt about the boredom he felt in his party job, and about the horrors of his early childhood in the Cultural Revolution.

There was a suggestion of boredom in her tone.

Your expertise will keep your sex life exciting and keep boredom out of your bed.

Spending too much time on an activity or lesson in a single study session creates boredom and inattention .

Feel free to tell us about your experience of traveling with children. What did you do to keep them from killing each other out of boredom?

They dream to have earned to retire at the age of 50, and when they reached it they die of boredom.

A form of boredom that occurs in relation to mandatory meetings, most commonly those centered around a presentation.

Several hundred of these voices I ignored out of boredom.

The heroines head out in search of answers due to curiosity, duty, or boredom.

Boredom and impatience with the process are the biggest threats to a fulfilling volunteer experience.

In two days he had gone from mirth to boredom to resentment and he was becoming a little desperate.

If you're used to running on mostly flat courses, adding hills to your routines can help prevent boredom.

Dr. Michael Raposa is an expert on boredom and religion from Lehigh University in the United States.

Boredom happens when parts of your life have created a rut of routine. There's not enough zap in your brain.

But I also remember my initial wonderment evolving after twenty minutes or so into, well, boredom--a confused "what next? "

one's life, sharpens one's wits, reduces one's boredom, broadens one's horizons, and makes one more interesting and pleasant to be with.

Kid, Swallow but believe us, You won't die of boredom, Should you have to leave us, It'll be alright.

Even a promotion did not relieve Grant's longing for his family and boredom with army routine.

Before this, people did not speak about the emotion of boredom.

We have been crushed by the habits we've formed out of fear of stress and boredom.

It's very close to [German philosopher Arthur] Schopenhauer's pendulum idea that says our life swings between pain and boredom.

Instead of contributing to the problem, become part of the solution and sit in silence with your boredom.

To most housewives, a shopping trip often serves as an escape from housework as well as an relief from boredom.

The boredom was just seeping out of their very pores and mine too.

My son smirked and slowly shook his head with mild boredom.

Television helps to relieve the boredom of the long winter evenings.

living with lies, illusions and hatred, the weariness of it all, the boredom, the inanities: this is our life.

Cabin fever is not really a disease, however, people can experience boredom and restlessness if they spend too much time inside their homes.

Bike riding allows you to change scenery as you exercise, helping to prevent boredom.

This should save her from boredom and will also relieve the pressure on you to keep her entertained.

To remove those hours of boredom, he came up with another distraction: an internship at a consulting company.

I fell a sleep reading a dull book, and I dreamt that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom--Heinrich Heine.

Boredom also stems from fear. If you're living like a sheep instead of a lion, you'll often be bored.

I think they keep changing the rules mostly out of boredom but, in Marvin's case, I sense a certain underlying malevolence.

Yet your feeling of wanting to do something (anything! ) different from what you're doing right now feels a lot like boredom.

Even if you live in a warmer climate, these boredom busters will help keep kids busy and having fun any time of the year.

there is likely to be a good public library as a stay against boredom.

This need for external stimulation may explain why extroverts tend to be particularly prone to boredom.

Creating the habit of alternating between reading and writing is an even more effective means for transmuting your boredom.

But, gradually, your patience had been eaten away by the boredom and loneliness.

After three days without a winner, he X-rayed his sneaker out of boredom.

More active animals will eat less, and animals without much stimulation will eat more out of boredom.

The number one problem in the human family is boredom. Yes, even more than guilt, because boredom produces activity that generates guilt.

For others, it is a time of boredom, loneliness and poor health.

But boredom was the emotion that dominated, rather than anger and resentment.

Lean back with your hands behind your head while seated, giving a feeling of boredom or superiority.

Walker Percy, a philosophical novelist, once properly described boredom as "the self stuffed with the self. "

When the painter tries hard to express a sense of boredom on vision, he is more involved in the real life with a cold attitude.

Carry out several types of physical activity to avoid exercise boredom and promote better long-term adherence to exercise programs.

In this situation the child associates books with fear, shame and boredom. When did t. v.

Boredom is a common experience that affects people on multiple levels, including their thoughts, feelings, motivations, and actions.

Ascension is about movement into freedom and joy again, and out of boredom and confinement.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Although we associate yawning with sleepiness and boredom, its function appears to be to wake us up.

Boredom is nothing new and had to go.

The child star Declan cannot complain about boredom, because the toddler wants to do substantially career now.

Sometimes, out of boredom, he carried out operations without anesthetic, removing organs from conscious victims.

Boredom is hardly a state of happiness or contentment.

Feeling irritable or short-tempered can be signs of depression. So can feelings of boredom or hopelessness.

A second benefit, particularly for women in their late thirties or forties, is the relief from the boredom of housework.

She observed her guests' expressions glazing over with boredom at the insipidity of the conversation.

Boredom was unavoidable, yet also a primordial soup for some of life's most quintessentially human moments.

A certain power of enduring boredom is essential to a happy life.

The Internet can also serve to starve off boredom and keep the mind active in the later years of life.

Music relieves the boredom of the commute, or of a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom from toil.

She seems so depressed by the boredom of her city life.

By the time I left, I was wondering how I ever could survive the boredom of attending a homogeneous institution.

Boredom has jumped out of the history textbooks and into real life.

At this point, she could decide to turn on the television. She could do this every day and escape the boredom of the event.

At a more functional level, the ability to focus or engage also plays a significant role in boredom.

When a baby is crying due to sheer boredom, the best thing to do is play with them.

Rooney, whose only hobby is sleeping, takes up betting on sport out of sheer boredom.

Loneliness, boredom and fear are most common for those younger than 10 years of age.

The speaker ground on, oblivious of his listeners' boredom.

There was a suggestion of boredom in his tone.

Quick! Call the doctor. I'm about to die of boredom. Are there any films on?

Many dogs act out their boredom and loneliness by barking, destroying stuff, digging, and urinating or defecating in unexpected places.

Boredom and depression at work prompted almost two-thirds to call in sickbecause they are disillusioned with their jobs.

It was boredom, not poverty, that drove him to rob banks.

But boredom isn't as hard to beat as you might think.

When work is duty , life is slavery . (Maxim Gorky , Russian writer ) Work banishes those three great evils : boredom , vice, and poverty.

Out of sheer boredom I would pick up a book and read on and on.

She threw herself on her bed and wept in the agony of boredom.

A wide variety of practice techniques creates proper stimulation and avoids boredom and burnout.

Because any time the slightest whiff of boredom sets in, the kids start robotically groping for it.

Having been isolated on a remote island, with little work to occupy them, the soldiers suffered from boredom and low spirits.

Doing activities other than running prevents boredom, works different muscles, and can give your running muscles and joints a break.

I am finding the boredom far more stressful than I ever found the work.

The bad habits we've formed are often useful to us, in dealing with stress and boredom.

Not much research, however, has examined what makes the experience of boredom distinct from other affective experiences.

That could potentially be linked to the boredom and social isolation experienced by many gifted children, the authors note.

That means steeping in uninterrupted boredom may be the first step forward toward feeling connected.

Keep in mind that boredom can be deadly if your job entails working with machinery or caring for people.

Of a truth, need and boredom are the two poles of human life.

The end of efforts and the beginning of boredom.

Blackberry users now have another option in staving off the ravages of boredom.

There must be an end to the boredom and deceit of present-day family life.

His letters had for years voiced his intense suffering, his "overwhelming boredom" , his loneliness and loathing.

This deprives humans of loving life experiences over time leading to greater boredom, depression and non-fulfillment.

The way people sit, stand, and move in general can communicate confidence or insecurity, defensiveness or openness, boredom or excitement.

Arrange regular job rotations for information processing personnel; so as to avoid fatigue and boredom during video surveillance.

The extreme difficulty of achieving true aesthetic pleasure leads A to claim that boredom is the most common, and unpleasant, human state.

Yet it is boredom that seems to hurt most.

Don't you see? ! The Reapers aren't going to while out all of civilization with guns, but with sheer boredom!

One weekend, my friends and I were fighting boredom, staring blindly out the window.

So out of absolute boredom last night, I watched the annual Spring Festival show thing from this year.

In times of sheer boredom I would pick up a book and force myself to read.

Volkner voices his boredom, but just then receives a call, and claims that something that inspires him has happened finally.

Watch for signs of confusion, puzzlement , lack of interest, boredom and distraction and respond to them. Ask questions.

They are always busy wondering how things work or why things are the way they are, leaving no room for boredom.

One major way people try to escape boredom is through entertaining forms of technology.

Boredom is not wrong in any manner, give peace to the brain and promote a steady inclination of brain activity.

But for those of us without a brain scanner, there are simple ways to find out if your relationship is growing or vexed by boredom.

Chew on a piece of gum when the feeling strikes you (nervousness, boredom, etc. ).

Apparently negative consequences such as boredom, stress, anger, disappointment and failure are a necessary part of individual development.

Boredom: Some people said they wouldn't want to try polyphasic sleep because they'd be bored with all that extra time.

Without a song in my heart, can sing out of boredom.

The very source of our boredom also provides a solid foundation of unadulterated comfort.

Psychogenic causes include boredom, stress, or separation anxiety.

But we are here not for the in depth scientific study, right? Let's jump straight to the photos and kill boredom once again. Enjoy!

The first thing you need to do when boredom surfaces is to become aware of it.

Several hundred of there voices I ignored out of boredom.

Guard against revealing body cues of boredom or indifference when another person is presenting ideas.

There will be six designated yawning breaks during my presentation. Please pace your boredom accordingly.

However, we are getting feedback that they may be struggling with mana and perhaps even with boredom.

Names that had once meant excitement, then boredom, then frustration, then slavery.

Fidget with small objects when talking , indicating nervousness or boredom .

Boredom was not as scarce as water on Tatooine, and Luke often dreamed of adventure and excitement.

empty eyes; a glassy stare; his eyes were glazed over with boredom.

Now let's suppose that the people who are leaders and innovators around the world are experiencing a similar lack of boredom.

Boredom of workers may stem from continuously having to perform a simple task.

Aberrant behaviour, often brought on by boredom, is not unusual in zoo animals.

Van Tilburg said his research proves that boredom can promote behaviour that benefits society.

Denying oneself sweets is like sending a message to the universe to send one boredom and joylessness .

Variety is what makes life pleasureable. Boredom is seen as a threat and monotony is the surest route to boredom.

Lovemaking Positions - A repeat of the same lovemaking position can bring about boredom in your love life.

Boredom is a signal you're succumbing to fear instead of embracing what you really want.

Doing activities other than running prevents boredom, works different muscles, and can give your running muscles and joints abreak.

And so, since so much of their lives is spent in doing nothing, they suffer agonies from boredom.

Tests are the programmer's stone, transmuting fear into boredom.

19th century British upper class life, is characterized by boredom. Wilde in the play reproduction, it is society's view that the upper age.

Make your talk a two-way interaction with questions and participation to reduce boredom and speak with ease.

If boredom is the issue, consider changing jobs within the same company.

Peter Bregman is not alone in his opinion about boredom.

Such detours are well worth making and can greatly reduce the soporific boredom of motorway driving.

In fact, as researches show, a small class is more likely to give rise to tiredness and boredom, which hinders learning.

One more electronic game or one more DVD movie or one more pop song holds back the slide into boredom and depression.

As the saying goes, "Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. "

When a television program ends or the radio breaks or the computer loses power, boredom remains.

Not enough stress leads to feelings of boredom and sometimes, meaninglessness.

He had nothing to do and found the boredom hardly endurable.

Still, it's worth keeping an eye on the link between our vanishing boredom and our lack of innovation.

Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.

Instead, he found boredom, alcohol and bureaucracy.

It feels never boredom in the very small fish tank. Because 7 second once passing by, each place for swimming across became new world again.

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother. --Voltaire, French philosopher.

Remember, boredom is the black hole for excitement and takes away that feeling of "being alive" .

Only last Sunday, my Lady, in the desolation of Boredom and the clutch of Giant Despair, almost hated her own maid for being in spirits.

In flying from the fructifying kind of boredom, they fall a prey to the other far worse kind.

FOR a month, starting on June 11th, the eyes of half the world will be rolling in exasperation, boredom or indifference.

If boredom has set in, find new and unique directions that offer interesting friendships.

However, Peter Bregman is not sure escaping boredom is the answer.

Lately I've started worrying that I'm not getting enough boredom in my life.

Anxiety and extreme sensuality . To fight boredom of repeatedness , try new and original ways . Joy can come from suffering.

Addicts are drawn to drugs to salve depression, anxiety, boredom, self-loathing.

His eyes glazed over with boredom.

Similarly, boredom can sometimes be detected by a blank stare.

Avoid boredom and find new possibilities by exploring new topics. Read books in new genres.

Collecting, by occupying spare not time so constructively, dos a person contented, with no time for boredom.

Everything routine that comes in I pass along to somebody else . This makes my boredom worse .

Sixteen hours and I wanted to cry with boredom.

Her lessons are so boring that the class often falls asleep from boredom.

Soldiers were restless to return home and complained of incessant boredom.

Let's take the fear out of stress and boredom.

The Social Security system cannot afford it even now, and in the future, going out to pasture at 65 will mean decades of boredom.

The misguided projects that followed came from a mix of boredom and utopianism.

Did you know that people get physically tired because of emotional factors like boredom, frustration, and anxiety?

Lack of opportunities can dampen interest in the work and result in frustration and boredom.

These and other unwise pastimes result in their fatigue, boredom, emptiness and sickness.

But his students at Beijing Foreign Studies University didn't even try to hide their boredom.

If they don't know, they are probably just asking out of habit or boredom.

'cause I can't be quiet inside anymore, all those boredom people make everything messed up.