Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subordinating himself and his men to the task of working to best advantage within unforgiving constraints. That background may not lend itself to flights of rhetoric or legislative imagination, but the fractious Philippines could do worse than to agree on a set of priorities and settle down to the tedious task of putting the country back on its feet...
...encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C: (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give Ds. Consider C-a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sing the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole think boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much...
...prosecution was methodical, almost tedious in its presentation," says / Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School. "The defense came out swinging from the first, painting King as a bad and dangerous man." On the order of Judge Weisberg, defense attorneys were not permitted to tell the jury about King's criminal record, including his imprisonment for robbery. But they were able to portray King as a large, aggressive man who was legally drunk. Much was made of the officers' claim that they thought King had gained unusual strength and tolerance to pain because, they believed, he was under...
Cooling the mirror is an equally painstaking process that takes many weeks. Reason: if one section of the glass cools faster than another, it will contract more quickly, creating stresses that lead to cracking. When finally unmolded, the mirror will still require months of tedious polishing to remove any imperfections...
...happened to Mark McConnell, who achieved popularity despite the difficult and tedious material of Math...