Word: tediousness
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...upper classes, "the only one who tells us how our rulers behave in their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs." Perhaps readers have wearied, Vidal suggests, of novelists who insist that only the immigrant story deserves to be told or devote themselves to tedious proclamations of selfhood while ignoring the class whose legend is writ in the Social Register. Despite his considerable failings as a novelist, Auchincloss does for that class what John O'Hara did for the country-club set: observes its workings with the tireless zeal of a behavioral scientist...
...Levin, Boston meant a long an tedious future. The town is proud of its teams and demands a winner. Levin had a losing ballclub on his hands, and the team was going steadily downhill...
...perfect airplane book should distract during long, tedious hours of bad food and crying babies without absorbing so completely that the reader forgets to pray for a smooth landing. If, in addition, it whets the appetite for faraway places, the summertime traveler has the perfect prelude to vacation reading...
...three-month, tedious, low-paying summer job never failed to reaffirm my belief in the value of completing my education "on schedule." That, and the prospect of repaying my education loans...
Since we are also shielded from the few suspicions that Holden is permitted, we never make the kind of identification with a strong, appealing, endangered figure that the horror genre requires. The result is a movie full of much tedious talk relieved by the occasional gaudy murder...