Word: tediousness
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From West Point, the Rapps moved to Virginia where they joined Starlit--a tedious 40-minute commute. Betsy began to train seriously with the A1 group at 11 while Jenny--hampered by her thinness--often had to sit out on deck shivering between sets, wrapped in three large towels...
...French presidential campaign had begun to resemble a tedious exercise in shadowboxing and issue ducking. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing remained in lofty seclusion behind the ornate iron gates of the Elysée Palace. Socialist Candidate Francois Mitterrand slipped away for tours to the U.S. and China. Neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac drifted off for a week in the Caribbean. Even Communist Candidate Georges Marchais confined himself largely to preaching to the converted in party districts like Paris' working-class suburbs. Then suddenly last week, the gloves came off and the slugging began...
...entire affair, in fact, might grow a little tedious, if it weren't for Cross's wonderfully insightful eye. She captures not just the back-stabbing civility of Harvard politics, but the unique pace and style of the University and its city. Cross is best with the little touches that provide what Poe called the potent magic of verisimilitude (each character in this bookish book continually quotes and attributes in mid-sentence). Examples of the Cross eye: a sophisticated senior's statement to a mystified outsider. "Oh, nobody uses money at the Coop": or an accurate assessment of Lamont (squeaky...
...unfortunately, it also makes one restless. It's just too perfect, and in the end it is, dare one say it, awfully boring. What's crystalline and well-crafted often leaves one cold. When Helprin's not affecting an especially tedious antique style for telling whispy tales of love lost and childhood winters in Vermont, he proceeds with an eloquent lack of inspiration. Neat shaping of sentences and admirable technical confidence do not make up for a lack of that obscure energy that transforms les mots justes into great writing. In some ways the style belongs to the 18th century...
Collective Decision Making. Traditional American corporations encourage executives to be decisive, to act forcefully and to accept the consequences. Japanese corporate decisions are reached by a tedious process of collective compromise that can sometimes involve as many as 60 to 80 individuals, each of whom holds a potential veto. The process of consensus building is slow, but once agreement is reached, no one attempts to sabotage or slow down the project...