The quiet of Cheyne Walk became a consciousness of boredom and futility, and he suggested on a sudden impulse that he and Guy should go and visit Maurice in the studio.
Surely it would be kinder to ascribe it to the accumulative boredom of August in London, or possibly to a sudden realization of vulgarity creeping up to the very portals of the Albany.
If one has been dull, one begins to gather one's self together, rejoiced that the boredom is over.
Her son's wife suffered from the resulting boredom and unpopularity without being able to comprehend the significance of the situation.
And as long as I can be certain that it is not boredom which gives you this severe air, I am willing to sit here and look at you till you are ready to go.
He was tired of shooting; he hated yachting; the ordinary country-house visit was nothing but shooting in the daytime and unmitigated boredom in the evening.
He realized why people who never act on impulse and never do uncalled-for things are not only dull to others, but suffer boredom themselves.
Here the dozen or so Europeans, who knew every line of each other's faces by heart gathered regularly from sheer boredom whether the game amused them or not.
Nor was the dejected man who so plainly showed that he was pining for someone else the good-looking, heart-whole subaltern who had fascinated her in the boredom of existence in Rohar.
In contrast with this amiable and ambi-flagellatory or bipenal practice, may be placed the character and instance of the unjust judge who frankly admitted boredom as his motive for action.
We reach a supporting trench in which men are waiting in a state of nearly insupportableboredom for the midday stew, the one event of interest in a day-long vigil.
In such talks as I could get with men close up to the front I found beyond this great boredom and attempts at distraction only very specialised talk about changes in the future.
And boredom is of all things one of the hardest to combat.
Death is only awful in anticipation; boredom only an affliction to the keen-witted.
Boredom is a form of suffering unknown to brutes, at any rate in their natural state; it is only the very cleverest of them who show faint traces of it when they are domesticated; whereas in the case of man it has become a downright scourge.
This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life?
Of a truth, need and boredom are the two poles of human life.
These admit of many gradations, from the most innocent trifling or the merest talk up to the highest intellectual achievements; but there is the accompanying boredom to be set against them on the side of suffering.
Born in boredom and anguish at seeing snow fall while doing her dishes in front of the kitchen window, delivered meals, disposable plates, and throw-away silverware of plastic came into being.
I can't stand the boredom of everything around me" "But you have to survive," said the mosquito.
In answer to your question, maybe the boredom of flying around this rocky planet causes us to need to bite into something deeper.
Philip remembered that once he had suggested going to Oxford for the day, and she had expressed firmly the boredom she felt at the thought of sights.
He went to a music-hall, but it was Saturday night and there was standing-room only: after half an hour of boredom his legs grew tired and he went home.
It was not the boredomof nothingness, but the boredom of the familiar.
He held good cards and rose the winner of five pounds that he would willingly have paid to escape the boredom of the bout.
After dinner he was driven by boredom into the streets.
They were sitting close to the Schiller statue, Winton reading The Times, to whose advent he looked forward more than he admitted, for he was loath by confessions of boredom to disturb Gyp's manifest enjoyment of her stay.
But so far, I have had no more intrusion or boredom than I have when I lead the same life in England.
If I had not already learnt to tremble at the sight of classic drapery on the human form, I should have plumbed the utmost depths of terrified boredom in this achievement.
Visible discouragement of the bench, boredom of the public, and exasperation of the lawyer for the defense.
His youthful face expressed nothing but the frigid, immovable boredom which is commonly seen on the face of schoolboys and men on duty who are forced from day to day to sit in the same place, to see the same faces, the same walls.
At first the prisoner turned pale and coughed nervously into his sleeve, but soon the stillness, the general monotony and boredom infected him too.
They took with them young Marco, and it is due to his presence and the boredom of his subsequent captivity at Genoa that this most interesting experience has been preserved to us.
Just as we owe Marco Polo's book of travels to his imprisonment, so we owe Machiavelli's Prince, his Florentine History, and The Art of War to his downfall and the boredom of San Casciano.
Again I hit the sack out of sheer boredom and I turned and tossed for what seemed like hours before I dropped off to sleep, wondering and dreaming about who was to be the next visitor with a bill of goods to sell.
Later he removed the tray as silently as he'd brought it, and I was left with another four hours of utter boredomuntil the same bird returned with a light lunch.
But guard it well, because a man in your position is gauged in success by the amount of boredom he creates for himself.
Having thus happily launched himself, Theodore proceeded in his best Parliamentary style: holding forth with a power of self-complacent and steady boredom beyond his years.
To Harold and Wilfred these Sunday visits were such a delightful break in the dull routine of their lives that their father would have endured considerable boredom and discomfort rather than deprive them of it.
So frightful in boredom that men were tempted to take to drink, to look around for unattached women, to gamble at cards with any poor devil like themselves.
So it went on and on until the torture of its boredomwas broken by the crash of big battles, and the New Armies, which had been learning lessons in the School of Courage, went forward to the great test, and passed, with honor.
In these days, long distant from the first strange years of my life, I am glad that I was not wilful with him--glad that I did not obstinately resist the folly and boredom of the thing, as I was inclined to do.
Twas a boredom hard to suffer, and never would have been borne had not the occasion of it been my uncle's delight.
He was thinking how once he had thought to express all the cramped boredom of this life; the thwarted limbs regimented together, lashed into straight lines, the monotony of servitude.
The faint premonition of the stirring of life in the cold earth, that came to Andrews with every breath he drew of the sparkling wind, stung his dull boredom to fury.
Would he ever again stand free and solitary to live out joyous hours which would make up for all the boredom of the treadmill?
He had originally taken up detective work more as a relief from the boredom of his lot as a wealthy young man, leading an aimless, useless life with others of his class, than by deliberate choice of his vocation.
Also, no one who has not been at the war knows the hideous boredom of it .
But the feeling of boredom that had been engendered stayed on, as these things do.
