Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Explaining the situation can be really tedious, but you want to give people a clear picture usually because you are so proud of yourself,” Huff said. “Afterall, this isn’t your average continuing ed program. I’ve done a lot of wonderful things at Harvard and I want people to understand that...
...strong direction that is delightfully self-aware. Many of the songs are delivered by characters fully aware that they are singing, rather than communicating with words that the audience somehow hears put to music. Just before the format of musical storytelling (apparently a tradition at the Morkan residence) becomes tedious, the format is halted, and more book-based story-telling resumes...
...well aware that reinvention is the mantra of our time, but how many times can you reinvent yourself before that self becomes tedious? Before the observer concludes, there's no there there? Before you lose touch with whatever made...
...sure I’ve done as much boring office work this summer as I did last summer, when I worked for the litigation department of a law firm back home. But I would be lying if I reported that my current job is as tedious and tiresome as the previous one. Truth is, I’m really enjoying myself here in D.C., and I’m honestly having a great time doing glorified clerical work. It’s the context that makes all the difference, and I think many people here are missing the point...
...heart rate low. He is stockier than most mountaineers, who tend toward lanky, long muscles. But he possesses an abundance of the one indispensable characteristic of a great mountaineer: mental toughness, the ability to withstand tremendous amounts of cold, discomfort, physical pain, boredom, bad food, insomnia and tedious conversation when you're snowed into a pup tent for a week on a 3-ft.-wide ice shelf at 20,000 ft. (That happened to Erik on Alaska's Denali.) On Everest, toughness is perhaps the most important trait a climber can have. "Erik is mentally one of the strongest guys...