Word: tediousness
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...Chem 20 prerequisites, Chem 6 should be elected only by students with superb math aptitude and science capacity. Chem 40a may fulfil the second half of the initial year chemistry requirement: however, Chem 40a is simply not recommended by me for the following reasons: it focuses primarily on tedious calculations and its lab is useful primarily in making anal compulsives out of premedical students who are already too far developed along those lines. Most importantly, the techniques learned simply are not terribly relevant to anything done in medical school courses...
These very real events are not merely the background of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's already much puffed (and huffed at) new novel. In an occasionally quite tedious way, the battle is the book. Understandably so. August 1914 is the first of a many-volumed effort by Solzhenitsyn to re-create modern Russian history in truthful fiction. Tannenberg was a decisive battle from which the Czarist regime and the Russian war effort never recovered. But there are moments when the reader, plugging along with the hungry troops or trying to feel the requisite rage at the chicanery of the book...
...occasionally comes to a tentative conclusion, he doesn't develop such musings into a sustained explanation of the underlying motivation for prosecution or for publication. If he had he would probably have produced a longer and more boring book, but as it is, he merely explores some alternately tedious and fascinating trivia tangentially related to the issues involved in the Papers...
...long delays. Gund Hall had been scheduled for construction on the site where Hunt Hall stands in the Yard. Its present location--the corner of Cambridge and Oxford Sts opposite Memorial Hall-became open when the University finally purchased the land from a nearby church after many years of tedious negotiations...
...convention that lacked inherent drama needed some theatrics. The professional actors reading polished lines on cue, the smoothly edited film tributes to Pat and Dick, the youth-led demonstrations timed to the minute, the taped endorsement of a teary Mamie Eisenhower-all provided tidier television fare than had the tedious early-morning roll calls of the Democratic Convention. The tardiest opening gavel was only 15 minutes late; with Missouri's vote, Nixon's renomination came only eight minutes late...