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Word: tediousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, they carry out the tedious antics of Ann-Marie Macdonald's play for two and half frustrating hours, each singing his character's one note with admirable fidelity until the bitter end. It is impossible to know just how they would have managed with real Shakespeare--perhaps there would be some wobbling in those higher ranges that the present play does not attempt--but a glorious failure would have been at least more satisfying than this perfectly executed trifle...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Goodnight Squanders Talent Dreaming of a Better Script | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...leader in promoting racial balance by supporting measures such as magnet schools, school choice, charter schools. And there is more money in the state budget this year than in previous years for those kinds of measures." But reforming the system through such voluntary initiatives is "a very long, tedious process,'' says Mayor Peters. "In the meantime we're losing another half a generation of students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEGREGATION ANXIETY | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...well all watched the Rockets and Knicks stumble and claw through the most tedious finals in NBA history, these memories became more and more distant...

Author: By Jason E. Kolman, | Title: Jordan, Take Two | 3/18/1995 | See Source »

...been very tedious," said Ogletree of the application process, which has taken three years to complete...

Author: By Margaret M. Ou, | Title: New Charter School Approved in Cambridge | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...have a most tedious conversation with Raster, in which I estimate the number of cubic feet in Soldier Field, rounded to the nearest foot. I ask Raster to multiply that by 24,808 and he shoots back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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