(n.) The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
(n.) The realm of bores; bores, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) I used it primarily as a social lubricant but also to alleviate boredom, stress and loneliness.
(2) In a series of analyses guided by intuitive hypotheses, the Smith and Ellsworth theoretical approach, and a relatively unconstrained, open-ended exploration of the data, the situations were found to vary with respect to the emotions of pride, jealousy or envy, pride in the other, boredom, and happiness.
(3) We should stop the importation of these birds which are sold as commodities and endure lives of boredom in cages.
(4) Is boredom, then, one of the risks associated with great art?
(5) It's why he wages his own one-man war in the cinema against boredom: you can experience many things watching his films, but you will never complain of longueurs.
(6) Brando directed once - on One-Eyed Jacks (1959) - before boredom and sourness took over, but seldom had the patience, the stamina or the courage to be master of his own fate.
(7) It was concluded that ACTH 4-10 counteracts the usual decay in performance as a function of time-on-task due to increasing boredom and mental fatigue.
(8) The Boredom Susceptibility subscale of the SSS correlated significantly with the number of sexual partners.
(9) One detainee I spoke to told me of racist taunting and abuse by guards, and boredom.
(10) Now, the Estonian architecture studio Salto has built an equally inventive solution to the boredom of the morning commute – a 51m (170ft) -long trampoline, so that you can bounce to your destination .
(11) These include Paul Helleu hard at work, his new young wife apparently asleep out of boredom in the background.
(12) Correlations between partners in the control couples were higher than those between partners in the dysfunctional couples on the SSS Total and Boredom Susceptibility scales, which replicated previous findings.
(13) He works the levers of public approval with consummate skill, yet can never quite conceal his slight boredom at how easy it is.
(14) The players complain of boredom, and yet don't appear to be able to apply themselves and concentrate.
(15) Beginning to feel the first prickles of boredom, I thought of young Nathan, for whom Minecraft was life, until it wasn't.
(16) Abnormal eating behaviors such as pica or coprophagy are usually caused by a dietary imbalance or boredom.
(17) , who grew his tache in 2010 because of “self-employed procrastination” ie boredom, but is reluctant to shave his off because it would make him look younger.
(18) What's staggering is that boredom still has such a wholesome, desirable image.
(19) What I actually did was marry the mind-numbing tedium of a second-rate reality show, with the plodding boredom of a sub-standard pub quiz.
(20) Responses to subjective questionnaires showed significant increases in boredom for both groups.
Gracious
Definition:
(a.) Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty.
(a.) Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent.
(a.) Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.
Example Sentences:
(1) When asked if climate scientists get sick of being asked about records by headline hungry media, he graciously laughed, and said: "For a particular month there is very little significance.
(2) Earlier Labour's interim leader, Harriet Harman, told the first post-election meeting of the (PLP) to be "gracious" in defeat.
(3) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
(4) The first tweet was a Qu'ranic phrase in Arabic, meaning: "In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful."
(5) The leader of the opposition, Bill Shorten, who sponsored similar legislation earlier this year, deserves credit for pushing the issue forward, and even greater credit for his graciousness in standing aside for the cross-party bill.
(6) Over the past year, facilitated by the steering group of the Anglican Communion Environmental Network we were invited through email, personal study, and virtual conferencing, to begin considering how we might live out, with urgency and in hope, the Fifth Mark of Mission “to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth.” Our reflections entered a new depth when, in February 2015, ACEN chair Archbishop Thabo Makgoba graciously hosted a face to face meeting in South Africa.
(7) "McElderry took his defeat graciously, saying: "Fair play to the guys who have organised the Facebook campaign – it's been exciting to be part of a much-hyped battle and they definitely deserve congratulations.
(8) * Christine spelled 'defense' and 'offense' in the American style, but I graciously changed them to proper English for her.
(9) I always thought The Kumars and Goodness Gracious Me could never have appeared on any other channel; they were BBC2 products.
(10) if this was to have been his last game for New York – and possibly the last of his career – he was gracious enough to leave the limelight to the victors.
(11) Nina Wadia, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar in the BBC2 comedy sketch show Goodness Gracious Me.
(12) On stage with Iggy Pop (left) and Ricky Gardiner (centre) in 1978: ‘Back then he was very spontaneous.’ Photograph: Getty Images But he's a very normal, gracious person.
(13) It adds: "As we pursue this community-based approach to school construction, Raising Malawi would like to graciously return the land in Chinkhota granted to us by the government for the original Raising Malawi Academy for Girls project."
(14) Djokovic, who remains world No1 was gracious in defeat.
(15) "We were graciously received by His Royal Highness, who responded in these terms 'What the bloody hell are you doing here?'
(16) As late as 2012, the gracious address contained flecks of modernising reform – the (largely delivered) move to abolish male primogeniture in the monarchy and the (entirely aborted) effort at electing the Lords.
(17) The Zona Rosa was fashioned by the city's europhile elite after the revolution; they named its streets after European cities, and built gracious European residences for themselves and the émigrés among them.
(18) The Goodness Gracious Me team are reuniting to do a one-off special, we're all very happy to be back together, to commemorate the show and BBC2.
(19) He was gracious about Romney, talking not only about his challenger but his father, the former governor of Michigan.
(20) It was the Afro-Caribbean Goodness Gracious Me, but before that show.