Word: tedious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that conflict out of himself, out of his troubled and rebellious past (cruel and drunken father, wistful and drunken mother) and using it--just as their great guru, Lee Strasberg, preached. In the first years of his fame, that was O.K. with Brando. It saved him a lot of tedious explanations. And it was more than O.K. with the crowd at the Actors Studio, which he briefly joined. It was the headquarters of Stanislavskian acting in America, inheritor of the Group Theater tradition (where in the 1930s Strasberg first came to controversial prominence). They had long needed a star...
...addition to reading the examination procedures aloud at the beginning of the exam and monitoring the activities of test-takers, proctors must compare the exam attendance slips to a class roster provided by the instructor. For tests in large lecture halls, this can be particularly tedious and time-consuming...
...pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure.” “The whole thing boils down to human rights.” Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake...
...normalcy" that would be difficult to sell in the U.S. It requires unremitting toughness and constant wariness. It is almost as tedious to pass through security at a shopping mall or a restaurant in Israel as it is to board a plane in America. There is also the moral burden of the casual brutalities that are an inevitable part of the West Bank occupation--and the social burden of being perceived as a rogue state by much of the world...
...Cambridge. Her vivid descriptions pay homage to Café Algiers, Brattle Street Florists, and the Spare Change hawker in the center of the Square. But in reaching out to a larger audience, Thomas-Graham must unravel the intricacies of Harvardia, and at times these explanatory passages will likely prove tedious for readers in-the-know. Thomas-Graham’s caricatures of Princeton socialites are priceless, but one wonders whether the author has adopted her subjects’ name-dropping tendencies. The acknowledgments at the beginning of the book include shout-outs to Jack Welch, the former General Electric...