Word: tediousness
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...telephone age, her letters were, understandably, preoccupied with news, and when there was no news, with gossip. Virginia adored gossip. She was fascinated by the details of existence--the comings, the doings and the goings--and writes about them at length. On one occasion, though, even she finds it tedious: "This is the sort of thing I have to write to you about. There is nothing else...
Crowded together, such formulations make this book difficult, while their frequent repetition--as though Bercovitch were afraid his ideas might be lost under the flood of his verbiage--makes it sometimes tedious, despite the originality of its thesis...
...saying, "It was necessary to give the details so that the book was not just my opinion, and so the reader has evidence that I am not misleading him. I could have put the whole message of the book into two chapters. The details, though they may be tedious, increase the credibility of Mollenhoff's thesis, making Game Plan a unique addition to the literature of Watergate...
Silent Spring and Ralph Nader. Abruptly, technology was cast as villain, plucking man from nature's bosom and forcing upon him tedious jobs and trivial products...
...Stade also spoke this week of a general desire to escape the pressured life of Cambridge, to avoid the "hassles" and deadlines his two jobs present, to recognize that "what used to be fun" has become a little more tedious. He has, as he wrote in a letter to Mather House residents, "been feeling that I was running out of gas and simply cannot do justice to either...