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And you've written that all those interruptions for applause is what turns these speeches into long and boring affairs.
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So far, they are playing a long and boring game of chess.
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Your player was utterly crippled, somehow, by his acquisition of an incredibly powerful weapon, and so you press one button over and over until the game appeared to end before jetting off to the present for a modern-day platforming section so long and boring it felt like a tech demo of a jump button.
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It was a very long and very boring process.
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And holding long moral lectures is boring, both for the parent and the child.
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Long flights are certainly boring and stressful but they can't drive you that crazy - can they?
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Plus, to his credit, he seems to understand that the battle with the bottle is not something that can be decreed by autocratic fiat, but rather that it is going to have to be a long, drawn-out (boring) campaign if it is ever to be effective.
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More recently, when Ryan Tate at Gawker had a photographer secretly stalk Zuck over a long weekend, those photos were boring, too.
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Save for the Old Testament look he tried on in "Evan Almighty, " he's maintained the same boring businessman haircut for as long as he's been in the public eye (and well before that, I'll bet).
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Read it before a long journey, and you may regard the boring old motorway with a new appreciation.
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BCP's Mr Watson loves working as a member of a tight-knit team, but says "being on the phone for a long time doing something again and again can get mundane and a bit boring".
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They espouse new ideas, long for new things, new relationships, constantly discovering new interests, escaping from their boring routines.
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