1.  Anyone who has seen a college or high-level amateur game in the past few years would be hard-pressed to call softball boring.

2.  Articulate, informal and irreverent, Schmidt is known as one of the computer industry's least boring public speakers.

3.  Designing and building radar and sonar equipment was boring, so Horan tried out for and made the Eagles in '84.

4.  Despite her celebrity and success, she maintains, in her own words, a boring life.

5.  Despite some mildly humorous moments from Carol Kane and Jeffrey Tambor, this concept comedy is boring and numbingly formulaic.

6.  Despite its impossible running time, "The Kingdom" is a lot less boring than Oliver Stone's "Nixon," which was 90 minutes shorter.

7.  D'Amato has even become a boring, issues-oriented guest.

8.  Dan Duquette has accomplished the ultimate in his Dukedom: He has assembled a team in his own boring image.

9.  Despite herself, she looks for the exotic to make Japan interesting, and is delighted when Mariko provides juxtapositions between boring familiarity and alien essence.

10.  Despite his image as a boring technocrat, those ties were considered enough to make him a viable presidential candidate in 2000.