Word: tediousness
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...costumes fit for any Spring Garden Party, ghosts portrayed with techniques most shamelessly existed from a horror Film seen this year-yes, Brad Dalton's... whatever? is all of this, three and one-half hours of all of this. Generally well-choreographed, often amusing, absurdly comic, emotionally unencumbering, less tedious than its length suggests, it has that same cheeky appeal as Duchamp's "Mona Lisa" or a bust of George Washington with a tinted-blue Mohawk: it makes us laugh well enough but makes us feel nothing...
Carroll composed much on his while taking Literature and Arts B-59. He also used it to do calculations "that would otherwise be tedious." This can sometimes pay off, says Goodstein, who used his Mac for chem problem sets. "I made a nice little diagram and I think I picked up a couple of points with that...
There are all sorts of ways to work against nuclear catastrophe- lobbying Congress, meditating on world peace, marching in the streets. Vigilance, of course, can be tedious, and it has not yet brought the knid of reassurance that people like W. Morgan Petty are looking for. When we find that no one will take him seriously, and that no one will promise not to drop the bomb, it's hard to be cheerful at all. This crisis of cynicism may get a chance to be more important than the immediate threats to our safety. Hope is what you have when...
...disparaged the novelist for coloring his heroine's eyes in three different hues. When the relevant passages are cited, there is no real contradiction; what Flaubert was describing was the effect of emotions on the face. Scholarly critics, fumes Braithwaite, regard the most sublime creative geniuses as "some tedious old aunt in a rocking chair who . . . was only interested in the past, and hadn't said anything new for years. Of course, it's her house, and everybody's living in it rent free...
...Insofar as he really does bring to the top level of the Soviet leadership more dynamism and pragmatism, he will put those qualities to work in the service primarily of competition, not conciliation. Yes, he is someone with whom the West can do business. But it is the same tedious, difficult, sometimes dangerous business as before--the business of managing a rivalry with a country that is too powerful to fight but too inimical to appease and often too insecure to accommodate...