Word: tedious
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...think in the case of the rent adjustor the job would become very tedious and very high pressured in the case of the public information officer...
...unless you have a knowledge of football, it is difficult to appreciate the game. Europeans hate American football. They find it slow-paced, boring, and tedious to watch. However, even the most ignorant spectator--just off the boat from Qatar--can value the action of volleyball being performed in front...
...when excitement settles into a familiar routine, even the most thrilling assignment becomes just a job. The White House beat, for all its glories, is often repetitive and tedious, the equivalent of covering a fenced-off headquarters in a company town. Says Woodruff: "Access is very tightly controlled; inevitably, you are manipulated. You rarely see your sources. You wait for them to return phone calls." Last week, weary of it all after nearly six years, Woodruff gave up her coveted job to become a Washington-based reporter and interviewer for the morning news show Today...
...course of the film, this association between Mazursky and his character runs amok. The most obvious result is the film's length, an unwieldy and tedious two hours and 20 minutes. Much of the time is dominated by plodding and ponderous soliloquies by Phillip or, worse still, supposedly meaningful glances. By the film's end, as Dinah Washington croons she "will turn Manhattan into an isle of joy," and Cassavetes takes a final knowing glance at the City's skyline, one wonders what made such an ugly point of departure such a desirable destination. Mazursky seemingly knows...
...some 200 customers of New York's Chemical Bank, the tedious chore of checking their balances or paying their bills no longer means standing in line at the neighborhood branch office. Instead, they simply switch on their Atari home computers, telephone a special Chemical Bank number, punch in some secret password codes and numbers into their machines and conduct all their banking business from their living rooms...