boresome

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Odets falls into a common trap: he cannot convey the peevish boredom of his floating prison without turning boresome himself.

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So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome.

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Few others watched the takeoff, for news of new air record-seekers has become boresome even in facilely enthusiastic Texas.

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Lewis promptly obliged: "I denounce Mr. Bernard DeVoto as a fool and a tedious and egotistical fool." he wrote, "as a liar and a pompous and boresome liar."

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It has been repeatedly demonstrated that mortals quickly lose interest in those one-sided theologies which, like their own Utopias, are insipid with perfect goodness and boresome with joy.

From The Book of Gud by Hersey, Harold