Word: tedious
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...however, the movie blends faith and narratively integrated struggle so seamlessly that the audience is absorbed into the personal fight rather than distanced by the specific faith. The plot of “Ushpizin” flows smoothly, and while the extended stay of the offensive guests does grow tedious, this plot technique causes the audience to truly empathize with the Ballangas houseguest frustration. One need not be familiar with Orthodox Judaism, as the movie gracefully explains the religious traditions and terminology. Secular and religious audiences alike will be impressed by the movie’s warm authenticity?...
...fulsome section on telephone and recording etiquette includes advice on ending a tedious call (hang up when you are speaking, not the bore) and disconnection (the person who placed the call should re-call). This seems obvious, as does the reminder that an answering machine means you don't have to pick up on every call...
Over the course of a tedious year (distractions—classes, my thesis—kept popping up), I wrote up the situation and discussed it multiple times with my department chair. By the end of senior spring, I had also sought advice from my Senior Tutor, the Bureau of Study Counsel, a University Ombudsman, and a senior administrator in University Hall. Every one I talked to offered condolences—“Well, that’s really too bad,” or “I’m sorry that happened?...
When I slept through successive visits to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, I never once blamed the music or conductor to be “sordid,” “tedious,” “egotistic,” “uninspired,” or any of the myriad missives that the author uses against the festival. Instead, I admitted that I could not just appreciate the music. Such an admission is beneath the author, who proceeds with his snide remarks: incompetent journalists, “tough locals,” thieving Rastafarians...
...African politicos, meanwhile, gave speeches so uninspired, tedious, and off-topic that they visibly embarrassed many of the expat participants. “The Special Advisor to the Honourable Minister of Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City,” whose title was announced in full ad nauseum, gave a speech that embodied the tenor. The only time this man lit up was a one-paragraph run (out of what must have been a 50-page speech) where he named some of Ghana’s many problems, hinting that blacks in the diaspora could help out a little...