Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairly funny. The plot-a show girl who is about to marry a millionaire when her past, in the person of Noah Beery, turns up and threatens her happiness-is good enough to suggest that Bright Lights would have held its own with the competition of last year. Most tedious shot: Frank McHugh as a drunken reporter...
...young subaltern, a few years out of Harrow, joins the colonial army on New Year's Eve, 1905. The book, then, is a chronicle of the experiences of an Anglo-Indian Army officer over a period of years. Put in that way, nothing could seem more tedious and dull. Yet, the casual reader who has scrupously avoided, perhaps through laziness, the countless "Mother Indias" and now watches the columns of the daily press with some dismay, can be assured that the "Bengal Lancer" has come closer to India than any of his predecessors. Lowell Thomas, no mean adventurer himself, said...
Inconsequential as much of Professor Palmer's facts may be, the terse style prevents it from becoming tedious, but the true flow of ripe wisdom is not reached until the second half of the book. Here the passages are so inchoate with thought that the sentences are almost without exception deep, if not winged, aphorisms. Professor Palmer's work should go on the shelves side by side with the settled wisdom of other great personalities in American letters...
...trend of criticism of the times appears to be directing itself more and more against the age-worn institution of examinations as a means of determining the relative knowledge an undergraduate has acquired at the end of a term. With the tedious, wearying events of the last few weeks still fresh in mind, it might seem out of place to set down a few of the considerations which we believe excuse the examination system as it exists today, with all its psychological brutality and its inadequacies, as a standard of cultural measurement. When one considers the recent statement...
Miss Glaspell's idea is a sound one, but although she has written a sensitive, charming play, it is tedious, overlong. Much of what Playwright Glaspell intends to be an atmosphere of intense nostalgia develops into mere vacuity. As usual, the Civic Repertory Theatre has given the play first-rate production...