Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Side Story through Applause and Annie to Miss Saigon, cast with three Tony Award winners and designed by two more, Nick & Nora should have absolutely everything going for it. But the show that opens on Broadway this week is a crashing bore -- cranky and arbitrary as a love story, tedious and pointless as a murder mystery, ham-handed as comedy, clubfooted as dance, at best wanly pleasant as music. A few scenes work, some quite well. The final 10 minutes achieve a truth and simplicity underscoring the barren brittleness of what has gone before. But ultimately the show fails...
This production achieves accessibility through O'Neill's striking combination of talents. Not only is he a dynamic speaker, but he is also a powerfully expressive mime, trained by Marcel Marceau. And for the virtually impenetrable Finnegan's Wake, mime is the audience's salvation from a potentially tedious recitation of word-play in 37 languages. Director Catherine Fitzgerald has skillfully balanced the priority due to the written word with physical enactments that provide crucial footnotes to the text...
...Undergraduate Council "cheerleader." Steven N. Kalkanis '93 said he would be more of a "team leader." But both of them announced that improving the UC's abysmal image would be among their top priorities as UC chair. Kalkanis even wrote a very long, very serious, very tedious letter to The Crimson imploring us to cut out our "senseless bickering...
...woman being victimized over and over. Both books, for example, report that the three plotters were enmeshed in Dungeons & Dragons; Bledsoe does a far better job of explaining that game. Both books are freighted with pointless multigenerational background for the main characters, but Bledsoe's is less tedious. Not only are the co-conspirators almost ciphers in McGinniss's book, but so is the murdered husband Lieth Von Stein, while Bledsoe brings him alive...
Recovery is not easy. The messages my mother filled me with had to be replaced with self-esteem. It is a tedious task. For me it involved five weeks of intensive treatment and many hours of outpatient therapy. At times I have felt enraged that I have to endure such pain. Today I feel only sadness -- and hope. Hope for me, for my children, for the many people engaged in this incredible battle. I promised my children years ago that I would break the cycle of incest that has haunted my family, and now that's happening. I only regret...