Word: tediousness
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...ring. Archibald MacLeish's brilliant verse flows from the lips of two metaphysical actors who, perched high upon some ethereal stage, create their own sideshow, transforming one man's life into a carnival of anguish and despair. And all to prove a point. As they banter and rage, their tedious argument of insidious intent leads to an over-whelming question, the ultimate question...
Although Powell's chronology is often tedious, his concern with detail emphasizes the book's most alarming point: the Ed School never established a clear path for itself after the initial transition from Eliot's movement for secondary school reform to the acceptance of responsibility for improving the entire public school system...
...Beatles records," admits Madness Organ Player Mike Barson. "I reckon they're pretty good, but a bit wimpy." Observes the Specials' Panter: "I think the Rolling Stones have been playing Honky Tonk Women for the past ten years. It must be quite tedious for them." To stave off occupational hazards, the Specials have formed their own label, 2 Tone, which has no offices, no secretaries and no official phone number, but which nevertheless has managed to sign up a diversity of new bands like the Beat and the Body Snatchers. 2 Tone, in fact, released Madness...
...direct result of his consuming ambition to be a choreographer. The latter came from his involvement with Romola de Pulszky, portrayed as a rather silly society girl who joins Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with the express purpose of seducing the dancer. After a number of rather tedious misunderstandings with the impresario (who is also his lover), Nijinsky indeed falls into her waiting arms; at that point his decline from a kind of noble and innocent moodiness to lunacy begins...
...messy novel about life's disorder does not work any better than a tedious novel about tedium. The Bleeding Heart can be entered in both categories. Its beginning reads as if D.H. Lawrence and Erica Jong had collaborated on a soap opera. Victor and Dolores first meet on a train between London and Oxford, silently swap glances and end up in bed at her apartment without exchanging ten words or knowing each other's last names. A sample description of this zipless encounter: "They clutched and caressed as their hearts pumped, as the sparks fell, as fiery charges...