17 Verbs to Use for the Word boredoms

If this is accomplished, life is a burden, and then there comes the second task of doing something with that which has been wonof warding off boredom, which, like a bird of prey, hovers over us, ready to fall wherever it sees a life secure from need.

The trick of making use of the same substitute to save the emperor the boredom of official ceremony, whenever there was no risk of the public coming close enough to detect the fraud, materially helped to strengthen the officially fostered argument that Commodus could not be Paulus.

You feel that she is not exercising the art of comedy, but relieving her own intolerable boredom and irritation.

Claire sat with a little group composed of Mrs. Condor, Ned Stillman, a fashionable young man, Phil Edington, who frankly confessed boredom at all things musical except one-steps and fox-trots, and two or three artistic-looking souls who pretended to be quite shocked by young Edington's frankness.

Tyler escaped the epidemic but he had to endure the boredom of weeks of quarantine.

Certain members of the American colony, who never in their lives thought of any one save themselves, and of how to escape boredom, are toiling like chambermaids and hall porters, performing most disagreeable tasks, not for a few hours a week, but unceasingly, day after day.

The aristocratic élégant Rumohr was obliged to put up with the following from her: "Why are you not willing to exchange your boredom, your melancholy caprices, for a rifle?

"Those accursed mandolin-strummers are getting away from us." Ulysses began to feel a certain boredom in these monotonously voluptuous days.

and half resolve to avoid all such boredom for the future!

In narration you must vivify emotional torpor; but lest in your efforts to inveigle boredom you yourself should induce it, you must have a wary eye for signals of distress.

He never wasted time on social formalities; he refused to fulfil any of those (so called) duties which involve ineffable boredom, and so his mind was always fresh and ready.

To Lanyard it seemed that her methods were crude and obvious enough; but it did something toward mitigating the long-drawn boredom of the cruise to watch them work out, as they seemed to invariably, with entire success; and then remark the insouciance with which, another raw scalp dangling from her belt, Liane would address herself to the next victim.

Gradually one began to realize the boredom of battle, to acquire some of that fantastic indifference to the chance of death which enables the soldiers to stir their soup without an upward glance at a skyful of jagged steel.

Something else takes its placea philosophy of fatalism, sometimes an utter boredom with the way in which death plays the fool with men, threatening but failing to kill; in most cases a strange extinction of all emotions and sensations, so that men who have been long under shell-fire have a peculiar rigidity of the nervous system, as if something has been killed inside them, though outwardly they are still alive and untouched.

He would have to amuse her and talk to her; what infinite boredom it would be!

This latter kind of limitation is attended by the disadvantage that it opens the door to boredom, which is a direct source of countless sufferings; for to banish boredom, a man will have recourse to any means that may be handydissipation, society, extravagance, gaming, and drinking, and the like, which in their turn bring mischief, ruin and misery in their train.

Paul followed on his wife's heels, scarcely concealing his boredom.

17 Verbs to Use for the Word  boredoms