Word: tedious
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...Forever,” the first single from the album. “I take hard rock / and mix it with hip hop,” Rock rhymes, repeating the refrain to mix in punk rock, southern rock and surf rock. The result is as tedious as the lyrics that announce it: an anthology for the angry, including punk, hard metal and nasty-boy rap. Rather than fusing these elements into something new, Rock takes the most obvious attributes of each and throws them together...
...sitting with two girlfriends on a wooden bench when she hatches the plan. This grassy park adjacent to their former junior high is where they kill their afternoons, smoking joints or Marlboros, sniffing thinner, whatever it takes to escape their boring homes and their dull parents and a tedious night of pretending to do homework and then sneaking out to work at the cabaret...
...That does not give the President an absolute majority, but it does allow him to strike a deal to lure a few maverick KMT or independent politicians rather than engage in tedious and fragile coalition building, leaving the KMT totally out of the government. For the first time since Chiang Kai-shek's army fled to Taiwan, it seems likely politicians advocating unification with the mainland have been sidelined...
...hidden behind shallow words but rather writ large at all times, making the conversation almost painfully uninteresting. When the professor remarks, as if it were a surprise, that he and the student are much alike, the moment has no meaning. It is obvious that they are both rather tedious whiners. In later scenes, which are supposed to convey a shift of power and cause the audience to repeatedly reconsider its views about tacit sexual intimidation, the play appears wildly uneven because of the lack of initial conflict...
...scenes were shot in live-action with digital cameras, and then the Waking Life animation team turned to a software program of Sabiston’s design to, in a sense, digitally paint over them. It was tedious work (about 250 hours of animation work went into each minute of film), but the effect is astonishing. What we see is like a moving painting, at times very representational, at others more blockish and abstract. Each of the animators has been assigned a separate character or scene, and their different styles come across in the varying levels of surrealism. Some scenes...