bore

"We want to do well, we want to win football matches but there's a long journey to go. We will take it game by game, even if that sounds boring."

Aleppo province and the Damascus countryside, major rebel strongholds subjected to heavy bombardment during the early years of the war, bore the brunt of the most of the destruction.

I’m not talking about the president’s pot-kettling insults in which he called Bolton “dumb,” a “wacko” or “a disgruntled boring fool.”

In a ruling that made headlines around the world, the ICC in November found "reasonable grounds" to believe Netanyahu and Gallant bore "criminal responsibility" for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

It’s hard to know what any of this signifies, other than that atheism is too boring to hold the attention of literate people for more than a few years at a time.