Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about his drowned fiance to old friends who never met her. Because Colin lost his love during the first blind rapture of romance, she remains forever perfect. For friends with whom he spent times that he recalls as golden and that they barely recall at all, his ardor is tedious -- especially when he hauls out an immense volume of snapshots of the deceased. His sentimentalizing extends to their marriages, which he extols even as they cope with revelations of sexual infidelity and suffocating possessiveness. When the cheated-upon hostess is carried upstairs, hysterical, Colin assures the others she has always...
...encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C: (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign 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 thing 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...
...unified sect," insists Teachout, adding that they do have one tenet in common: "The political and intellectual legacies of our older brothers and sisters, the baby boomers of the '60s, were a flop, a failure, a disaster." He sums up those legacies as "stale '60s romanticism, wan '70s disillusion, tedious '80s whining...
...process is tedious and painstaking, and it will be some time before the results become evident. But with increasing awareness of the importance of bringing a truly diverse population to Harvard, the number of international students can only increase...
...Hampshire legal circles, David Souter is renowned for getting to the bottom line faster than any other judge in the state's history. In Washington last week, Souter provided convincing evidence that the accolade is richly deserved. After two days of sometimes tedious give-and-take between Souter and the Senate Judiciary Committee, a bottom line was clearly visible to all: barring unexpected revelations, the committee lacks a cogent rationale for rejecting President Bush's first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court...