Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know you weren't speaking to me, but I heard it and so did the Court. I object to that remark and I want it put in the record. This cross-examination may seem tedious to you, but I have my duty to perform and I am going to perform...
...Everlasting Life" gives evidence of the author's ability to write clearly; but in itself it is not distinguished. The last paragraph will surely seem to some readers, not unreasonably, superfluous. "Love 1" is at best much ado about nothing. The first three paragraphs are tedious and muddy; the last two, insipid. It seems the work of a weary man who is expected to write something arresting, witty, facetious, and who would fain comply with the editors' demand. It certainly is neither witty, nor facetious, nor arresting. However pressed for material the editors may have been it was not kind...
...Sickly, Tedious Bosh...
...similar plans for approval by the trustees, Dartmouth having dropped chapel compulsion completely,* all within the fortnight, the students of Amherst College cried out upon the religious duties exacted from them. Said The Amherst Student: "Is not Amherst out of step with the modern liberal trend? Certainly the sickly tedious bosh which too often passes here for formal Religion can have no attraction to a virile mind. Unless religion can stand erect and challenging without the prop of attendance statistics, it deserves to topple into obscurity...
...York, N. Y. May 16, 1925. Gentlemen: To TIME San R. K. Francisco, Calif. WOOD Color-printing is, as any publisher knows, a tedious process. Were TIME to follow Subscriber Wood's suggestion, the magazine would arrive ten days late. -ED. Babes and Adults...