1.   A crashing bore, he can turn any party into a funeral.

2.   John and Simon, although they had sounded cheerful on the telephone, were fractious, upset, and ultimately a crashing bore.

3.   Behind the wheel with their phones in hand, they often become crashing bores.

4.   For the most part, this game was a crashing bore.

5.   Indeed, if he took himself as seriously as everybody else does, he would be a crashing bore and there would be no problem.

6.   Too bad this one is such a crashing bore.

7.   Unfortunately for Giuliani, Cuomo had by then become such a crashing bore that even the state senator from Peekskill looked like Teddy Roosevelt.

8.   Which is to say parts of it were a crashing bore.