In first-class matches he bored easily and his strokes of genius were in the end outweighed by his mistakes.

" Independent on Sunday says " Every bored schoolboys fantasy, only a thousand times funnier, slicker and more exciting ... genius .." and Financial Times reporting " Addictive pacey novels ".

However, among the students, he seems to have a spot in his heart for Caulfield especially, as he is always spurring him to mischief ( often unintentionally ), and makes excuses for Caulfield's " bored genius " behavior.

* April — Lonely, Warren built the robot April to be the perfect girlfriend, but eventually grows bored of her, abandoning her rather than dumping her face-to-face.

Meanwhile, XXXX encounters The Duke's idiotic nephew, Sidney ( Ben Whishaw ) at a bar, and becomes attracted to Sidney's bored girlfriend Tammy ( Sienna Miller ).

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

Clodius, however, soon became bored with his newly respectable family life and began a liaison with Pompeia, the sister of his closest friend Q. Pompeius Rufus ( tribune in 52 ), and wife of Julius Caesar, who was then the pontifex maximus.

* Bert Convy plays wealthy but bored executive Bradford Compton who planned to run the Cannonball by motorcycle with the help of an old friend, Shakey Finch ( played by Warren Berlinger ), once the world's greatest cross-country motorcyclist.

However, after Schoeneman and his friend Rick Pasetto ( who helped Schoeneman develop BZFlag from the beginning ) became bored with the concept, they invented the capture-the-flag mode.

This is where we meet Max Faraday ; 20-year-old computer science major, lovable loser, at home, with older friend Devan Lawless ; bored, Dev logged into Icore using his old professor's access codes.

In an interview with good friend Jim Sweeney, she said, " It's always the same: ' You're 41, and not married and no kids ', God, I'm so bored with it " to explain herself.

Polly ( Patricia Shakesby ), a friend of Jan's, is a bored corporate wife preoccupied with preserving her social status and their daughter Abby ( Cindy Shelley ) is a socially awkward young woman who has returned to Tarrant after completing her education at a Swiss finishing school and who establishes a friendship with Leo Howard.

Westgate is bored with his mundane college life, including his German friend Boris who experiments on animals in the lab, and the attentions of a shy male student who claims to be in love with him, so he is only too happy to be diverted into joining Penny in her search for missing archaeologist Pilkington ( a fellow Oxford colleague ).

In the story, a woman wants to perform oral sex on a man with a rare illness which is still actually fatal because the participants are bored with eternal life and miss their deceased friend.

These short exercises were designed to challenge linear one-staff thinking and in short, keep the friend from becoming bored.

He grew bored with the James Best Acting School and quit after two years, although he made a point of keeping in touch with all his acting friends.

thesis on point of view in Henry James and her teaching experience so far has been limited to some night class on creative writing full of bored housewives.

James Watt was unable to have an accurately bored cylinder for his first steam engine, trying for several years until John Wilkinson invented a suitable boring machine in 1774, boring Boulton & Watt's first commercial engine in 1776.

James Watt had tried unsuccessfully for several years to obtain accurately bored cylinders for his steam engines, and was forced to used hammered iron, which was out of round and caused leakage past the piston.

Duchess Josiana, a spoiled and jaded peeress ( and illegitimate daughter of King James II ), is bored by the dull routine of court.

Caryn James argued that the novel's violence was a " slap in the face " to modern readers cut off from the brutality of life, while Terrence Morgan thought that, though initially shocking, the effect of the violence gradually waned until the reader was bored.

James Nayler, a Quaker who in the year 1655 was accused of claiming to be the Messiah, convicted of blasphemy in a highly publicized trial before the Second Protectorate Parliament and had his tongue bored through and his forehead branded B for " blasphemer ".

" The details of policy – particularly of economics – bored him, in contrast with the intensity of Burke ’ s legal pursuit of Warren Hastings, and of Pitt ’ s prosecution of the war against France.

The music video for " On a Night Like This " was directed by Douglas Avery, filmed in Monte Carlo, and was loosely based on Martin Scorsese's 1995 crime drama movie Casino, with Kylie herself portraying a character loosely based on Sharon Stone's bored trophy wife, and Blade Runner actor Rutger Hauer portraying her mob boss partner.

Boulton wrote in 1776 that " Mr. Wilkinson has bored us several cylinders almost without error ; that of 50 inches diameter, which we have put up at Tipton, does not err on the thickness of an old shilling in any part ".

*" Mr. Tudball ," a Swedish-American businessman whose intentions of running a ' ship-shape ' office were usually sunk by the bored indifference of his secretary, " Mrs. Wiggins " ( Burnett ).

Inspired by Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, one way this was done was in the use of pauses that were " long enough to give the youngest time to think, short enough for the oldest not to get bored.

This arrangement seems successful to Lady Divine's lover, Mr. David ( David Lochary ), until Lady Divine becomes bored with the routine, and decides to murder the patrons rather than merely robbing them.

Mr. Six slowly shuffles off the bus, then suddenly comes to life and performs a high-energy dance routine as " We Like to Party " begins playing, and invites the bored family to Six Flags.

Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

The charge was so farfetched that Woodruff paid little attention to it, and answered Pike in a rather bored way, wearily declaring that a `` new hand '' was pumping the bellows of the Crittenden organ, and concluding: `` In a controversy with an adversary so utterly destitute of moral principles, even a triumph would entitle the victor to no laurels.

Both knew that when trains stopped at Texan crossroads bored soldiers would sometimes enter to ask the passengers if they had any reading material to spare, even a newspaper.

Or a bored dog because you are more interested in something else -- maybe the way you look, or the date you have after the Class, or you are just doing this to please the parents.

If notched for the battens, they would require more work, be weakened and limber holes would have to be bored so that bilge water could flow through.

When a hole is to be bored to a predetermined depth, mark the depth on the side of the stock, then run the bit down so that it is even with the mark.

The depth gauge rod can now be set, and any number of holes bored to exact and identical depth.

Perhaps one bored holes in the stone with some kind of an electric gadget.

Keep occupied to the point you are not bored with life and you will truly find these final days and years of your lives to be sunshine sweet.

The luxury of Paris' most fashionable hotel, the George 5,, bored the beautifully-built blonde, so she high-tailed it to Rome.

I believe TV watchers will be bored.

The wind bored a hole between his shoulder blades, and when he looked at the choppy waves coming and going and crossing each other he could see his head down there, bleeding, wedged between the rocks and the waves.

Gelignite was more stable, transportable and conveniently formed to fit into bored holes, like those used in drilling and mining, than the previously used compounds and was adopted as the standard technology for mining in the Age of Engineering bringing Nobel a great amount of financial success, though at a significant cost to his health.

Acquaintances may be bored by analogies that often lead her to a deeper realization about the true nature of a crime.

And as is often the case with this director's work, the pace is so slow and the mood so reverent, that initial enchantment gives way to bored fidgeting.

" Henceforth, he started to wear this tunic that he saw, and began to weave palm leaves, and never was bored again.

Precocious but reserved and often bored, she was searching for more independent activities and a desire to earn some money of her own whilst dutifully taking care of her parents, dealing with her especially demanding mother, and managing their various households.

Once at some games at which he was presiding, he ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the crowd into the arena during intermission to be eaten by animals because there were no criminals to be prosecuted and he was bored.

* Bore: The hollow cylinder bored down the center of the cannon, including the base of the bore or bottom of the bore, the nearest end of the bore into which the ordnance ( wadding, shot, etc.

Dachshunds are burrowers by nature and are likely to burrow in blankets and other items around the house, when bored or tired.

A bored, untrained dachshund will become destructive.

" His concentration was in the history of physics, and he was bored and unsuccessful in the prerequisite physics classes he had to take.

He soon became bored with his studies and, at the age of 14, he began to take a serious interest in mathematics.

By this date there were finally enough films several minutes long available to fill a programme running for at least half an hour, and which could be changed weekly when the local audience became bored with it.

Fellini eventually found work as a cub reporter on the dailies Il Piccolo and Il Popolo di Roma but quit after a short stint, bored by the local court news assignments.