Word: tedious
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...page graphic on how a wind turbine works--but it reads like a homework assignment. Gore's excellent lessons--why biofuel isn't as environmentally friendly as you'd think; why large-scale, sustainable changes won't occur until financial markets take climate costs into account--are presented as tedious lectures. As with flossing every day or eating healthier foods, Americans should make an effort to understand and solve the climate crisis. But a whole chapter about wind turbines? Maybe we'll just wait for the movie...
Paper, reading, midterm, paper, rinse, repeat–after a semester of arduous and sometimes tedious work, for many students, J-term is a welcome break from the frenetic pace of Harvard life. But it’s definitely not a reason to go into hibernation. While many J-term activities may not be officially organized by the University–students and student groups alike are taking the time to focus on what they really enjoy...
...nebulous of all the Nobel categories—and the one most difficult to quantify. One could endlessly debate the merits of many Nobel laureates—Henry Kissinger, Yasser Arafat, and Theodore Roosevelt spring immediately to mind—but to what end? Nothing constructive can come of tedious arguments over whether Obama deserved the Nobel. He accepted the prize humbly—and even if he had refused it, Nobel Prize statutes dictate that it would not have gone to anyone else...
...Having read your article while at the gym, I have to say I felt disheartened. While I enjoy exercise and understand its benefits, I can imagine anyone who finds it tedious and exercises purely for weight loss or maintenance would have found in that article a strong incentive to give up. Who knows what health problems they could have prevented by continuing to exercise? Caitriona McPartlin, Dublin...
...dramatic close-up, with the kind of musical fanfare that might accompany a gun coming out of a holster in a western. It's a door slamming shut on Joel's manhood, and he's as helpless at opening it as he is at closing one on the tedious Nathan. He is hog-tied by his own amiability. (See the all TIME 100 movies...