crashing bore

Keep ahold of your dentures And try to barf in the potted plants And hate won’t hurt any more Even if our satire’s a crashing bore It’s haaaaate ...

What critics said: The Independent's Clarisse Loughrey said Dune is of "such intimidating grandeur that it's hard to believe it even exists in the first place", but Slate's Dana Stevens thought it was a "visual and aural marvel that is also a crashing bore".

It “was a crashing bore and a terrible chore, until one day when I was cast as the girl with the mandolin in ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ ” she told the Times in 1981.

I’m so terrified of saying the wrong thing that I have become a crashing bore: why would anyone want to talk to me?

At the start of the song he’s a crashing bore, spewing out dismal platitudes such as: “We’re all the same when we go.”