Word: tediousness
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...Love American Style" provided quick, imaginative, sometimes impossible situations; Sunday Lovers provides tedious, over-used plots. Where "Love American Style" used unusual idiosyncratic characters, Sunday Lovers employs expectable, almost banal personalities. Where "Love American Style" let us laugh at ourselves through its perceptive vision of the contemporary preoccupation with sex for its own sake, Sunday Lovers falls flat...
...lurid sunsets--seem charged with surreal power; even the pastels seem energized, and the slums are unfailingly photogenic in their squalor. The enchanting promiscuity of the landscape, the vagabond itinerancy, and the no-sweat amorality of the characters keep the narrative amiably in motion, unburdened by overt lecturing or tedious symbols. The native Cico, who might have been pressed into the boring documentary role of "yokel-from-the-primitive-hinterlands-who-learns-the-modern-world-fast-and-succeeds-in-the-city," more realistically straddles the two worlds, both awkwardly and heroically. He is the idealistic primitif, yet when the show...
After calling home, the Americans at Wiesbaden turned to a more tedious task: debriefings by intelligence officers and a series of medical and mental tests. Said a psychiatrist at the hospital: "We are looking for physical signs of stress, like migraines and ulcers. We try to spot signs of depression or suicidal tendencies. Hyperactive chatter is another sign of possible disturbance...
Constant poor-mouthing can either grow tedious or, worse, seem like trolling for compliments. Fortunately, that is not the case here. Greene's guarded, skeptical attitude toward his material (in this case, his own life) is consistent with the one he has shown in his novels, short stories, plays, criticism and travel books. The smug, the self-satisfied, the overblown, even the merely happy are setting themselves up for ridicule and a long fall. Minimal expectations are a hedge against disappointment. In fact, Greene's past has been dashing and colorful beyond the daydreams of most; without...
...time it took the ringed planet Huygens make a single journey around the sun (nearly 30 years). Wryly, Huygens speculated about the people who might inhabit these cold distant worlds: "It is impossible but that their way of living must be very different from ours," he wrote, "having such tedious winters...