Word: tedious
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Such a confession seems relatively powerful compared with the tedious sex symbolism attached to Liz's husband, with whom Isabel "commits adultery." With the trashy, soft-core pornographic cliches, this episode strikes one as hilariously funny, regardless of the author's intentions...
Alice, Let's Eat is not a book by a "grownup" food writer. Its author's spontaneity and childlike view of the world save it from being tedious in the manner of most food books. Instead, Trillin has written a witty and trenchant mishmash of culinary anecdotes and satire--one that will not grow stale upon a second or third helping...
...Guinevere, "she could not understand honor and justice, for they were invented by men." The code of chivalry is resurrected in the form of propaganda. Berger is given to writing didactic speeches, and his digressions about good and evil, appropriate for the allegorical literature of the Middle Ages, seem tedious in a contemporary novel...
...great lady who undertakes the assignment is certain to be applauded for the honesty and bravery of her self-exposure, and since stars of a certain age are thought to combine volatility and vulnerability in a colorful way, the opportunities for bravura effects are endless. The opportunities for tedious egocentricity are there too-so much so in the case of Melina Mercouri, in this vehicle that her husband, Jules Dassin, has created for her, that the movie has the suffocating air of a vanity production...
...pleaser, What Kind of Fool Am I?, the song that probably contributed as much to the initial success of Stop the World as The Impossible Dream did to Man of La Mancha. Fool, Gonna Build a Mountain and Once in a Lifetime are the consolation prizes of an extremely tedious evening. The audience seems almost to come into the theater humming them. T.E.Kalem