This not only alleviates boredom, it can reinvigorate you.
Several hundred of these voices I ignored out of boredom.
He is a teacher at Edge Hill University in England who studies the emotion of boredom.
Hyperactivity is often a defense against boredom, and the fear of slowing down is really a fear of confronting yourself.
They yawned a lot, but not from boredom: more of a cowlike contentment, a sense of peaceful invulnerability which we residents could not quite share.
Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
The best cure for boredom is hard work.
To break up the boredom, I decided to browse those small trinket stalls.
That could potentially be linked to the boredom and social isolation experienced by many gifted children, the authors note.
That feeling of emptiness, into which I was pouring cocktails out of boredom, was filling up instead with a purpose: to live a full life with an awareness and appreciation of other people.
He traveled extensively to escape from boredom.
And so this is what I did for hours, until I itched with boredom.
When even Mr Dosman recognises on page 431 that an UNCTAD conference involved “a routine of merciless boredom”, the reader empathises.
These 15 weird &wonderful shopping bag designs take the concept of “love handles” to a whole new level while consigning the basic, bland, brown bag to the boredom bin.
They alleviated the boredom of waiting by singing songs.
Some question his judgment in falling for America's trickery; greed or boredom do not really explain why he took the bait.
His eyes glazed over with boredom.
Watch for signs of confusion, puzzlement, lack of interest, boredom and distraction and respond to them. Ask questions.
When giving a formal appraisal, never show boredom or interrupt.
A lot of literary fiction strikes a bargain with the reader: you suck up a certain amount of difficulty, of resistance and interpretive work and even boredom, and then you get the payoff.
In a love relationship there are times of boredom, time when I may feel like giving up, times of real strain, and times I experience an impasse.
He found the boredom scarcely endurable.
But the new study on yawning changes the popular notion that yawns are mere signs of boredom.
Younger employees and those with more menial jobs were also more prone to boredom.
