Synonyms for bores
bores

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1. List of paraphrases for "bores":

   holes, bore

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1. Dame Edith Sitwell:

   I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

2. Lord Byron, Don Juan:

   Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

3. W. H. Auden:

   If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.

4. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

5. Mike Matei:

   I hate cooking. Bores the shit out of me to stand over a stove or wait for an oven. And having to pick up stuff at a grocery store sucks.