Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Willie. Nailing one aging expatriate who spent most of his life drinking at the local white man's club, Theroux's mouthpiece observes that "he had failed at being a person, so he tried to succeed at being a character-someone out of Maugham. What tedious eccentricity Maugham was responsible for! He made heroes of these timeservers; he glorified them by being selective and leaving out their essential flaws...
...hunt has none of the excitement of TV's familiar police dramas. At the control center at 109th Precinct headquarters in Queens, the city-wide task force mostly answers telephones, hears out citizens who bring their information personally, dispatches teams to the tedious job of trying to determine if the informants' suspicions have a solid base...
...completely accepted by the Israelis nor the Arab leaders, of course, and we can't say yet that they are completely endorsed by the Soviets either. I think there has been a general acceptance of the proposition that the step-by-step incremental approach is too long, too tedious and leaves unhealed wounds. I think there is a general acceptance of the proposition that we ought to have a comprehensive settlement, based on peace treaties with all the Arab nations and the Israelis being involved together. I can't anticipate now what our position would be. I would...
...proseletize. But the filmmaker's views are rarely more articulated than this, as if he accepts the conquistadors' brutality because that is the way it was. A great deal is left to the observer, so much so that the film often descends into an aimless drifting almost as tedious as that which it depicts...
...because its authors don't seem to have caught on to that fact. The musical manages to incorporate every cliche ever proposed about marriage--from the shy newlyweds through the crises of middle age to the comfort of old age--without surprising the audience once. Quite a feat, but tedious nonetheless...