boringness

Though he specializes in bureaucracies and quantification, or as he puts it “modern things shrouded in cloaks of boringness,” Bouk himself has a poet’s flair for wordplay.

Our expanding cosmos is headed toward heat death, a state of terminal boringness, in which nothing ever happens.

The positive way to talk about the boringness of the iPhone home screen up until now is to point out that it has been simple and trustworthy.

It’s the province of family values, of don’t-rock-the-boat boringness — TV, largely, for the red states.

How do we reconcile the boringness of death-in-general with the shock of our own, specific death?