Word: tediousness
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Despite the trial's tedious length, it took the jury only three days to return a verdict of guilty against three stockbrokers, a defunct brokerage firm, and a former head of the United Dye & Chemical Corp. All were accused of conspiring to swindle the public out of $5,000,000 through some elaborate manipulation of 500,000 shares of United Dye stock...
Spotty by Cities. The geographic spottiness of the outbreaks confused public health authorities, and laboratory workers had the tedious job of identifying submicroscopic viruses in the laboratory to decide which of them were responsible for a particular patient's illness. The Asian A-2 strain of influenza virus has been identified in enough cases to convict it as the chief culprit in North Carolina's heavy outbreak of flu in January. The virus apparently spread to adjacent Virginia and South Carolina, and the University of Georgia had a local incident. Farther west, there were confirmed outbreaks at Great...
...then disowning responsibility for it. They are beasts, in The Firebugs, for giving arsonists the houseroom and the matches to set the world ablaze while they dunderheadedly pursue business as usual. The paradoxical difficulty is that Frisch hopes to arouse the conscience of the beast after demonstrating at tedious length that the beast has no conscience...
Last year in tutorial, Hunt continued, "we spent at least 30 minutes each week discussing tedious biographical facts...
...quashed her immediately. Given fatuous parts, many of the other singers (Mary Liverman, Ivan Oak, John Ring, Mary Lou Sullivan, and Robert Donaldson) strove mightily to overcome them. The set was imaginative and attractive: the skeleton of a frame house served a surprising variety of functions during the four, tedious acts. It was sad to see such rich resources used for such a poor work...