Mostly, it was just very boring, an opinion seemingly shared by Mark Wahlberg, who sounded like he was reading out of the phone book during his prayers.

There's no escaping it, revision can be really boring.

That relative lack of intrigue - contrasted with the thrill of Champions League knockout football - has got people asking if the Premier League is boring...

These tunnel boring machines are part of a tunnelling renaissance that is creating a new, mainly hidden, London.

It is shattering, sincere, yet also somehow sardonic, as Roth renders Swede as an average, even boring man brought low by the furies of the times.