Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limited, however, to a single theme, nor to rostrum repartee. It lent itself to schemes of a sometimes highly elaborate variety. During Curley's first (and successful) campaign for Congress in 1910, his opponent William J. McNary elaborated on the theme of his own integrity to eventually tedious lengths. Forthwith, Curley summoned one of his indigent acquaintances, suited him up in Grecian-like robes, put a lantern in his hand, and set this Diogenes out upon the streets of South Boston. His inability to find the honest man McNary was attended by sufficient cameramen and reporters to ensure the Curley...
...answer is very Spanish but rather grotesque. Since no suitable male is available, B.B. decides to make playful advances to a fighting bull. As she sidles up to him mooing small endearments, the poor bull just stands there looking cowed. The third answer is very Hollywood but sort of tedious. When a nice young sailor (Stephen Boyd) kills that nasty uncle, Brigitte helps him to escape. Night falls, and they hide out in an abandoned mill, a gypsy camp, a cave. On they go, one jump ahead of the police, until the censor has had just about...
...marriage and sex, with never a servant to interrupt, or a caller to intrude, or a child to compete; with not a moment's domestic small talk or campus chatter. So much single-mindedness, so many double meanings have a way-despite occasionally funny lines-of seeming both tedious and tawdry. Where The Marriage-Go-Round is not a Junoesque strip-tease on Actress Newmar's part, it becomes an attempted script-save on Colbert's and Boyer's. Their manner of saving it is to throw away as much of it as possible. What they...
...Seven-Eleven Store around the corner, methodically test-fired it into her mattress. Then she went to her father's den, turned on the big console television and waited, cool enough, while she thought over her plans to dispatch other members of the family as, each on tedious schedule, they came home from school or work. ABC's American Bandstand, the 4 p.m. teen-age dance show, had been on a couple of minutes when Diana's sandy-haired brother, 14-year-old Bobby, slammed the front screen door, stomped familiarly back through the kitchen into...
Brought to Life. Despite the objections Bible-lovers may raise, there can be no denying that the racy pace, the lively characterization and the lucidity of Phillips' translation will bring the New Testament alive for countless 20th century readers to whom the Bible is nothing but a tedious arrangement of dead language. Phillips comes out way ahead of King James's team of translators in the account of Paul's defense against King Agrippa in Acts: 26 (see below...