Word: tediousness
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...rest (including the absurdities of the allegory) I leave to professional critics who will have had the tedious advantage of having read the other eight scenes...
Much of Dulles' operation is routine and even tedious. A large part of intelligence gathering consists of reading technical publications, monitoring radar and radio, interviewing travelers and refugees. With this material, and from military intelligence as well as from CIA's own cloak-and-dagger specialists, the agency works up its evaluations, on which the National Security Council bases its decisions...
...Chancellors always refresh themselves during the tedious budget speech. "If there is any speculation as to what this liquid I am drinking is," said Lloyd, "I can say it has certain medicinal properties . . . For every gallon you drink the revenue benefits to the tune...
...authority perhaps only to man's inhumanity to man and to the theme of money, one of the great neglected subjects of modern fiction and drama. A hysteria of violence hovers constantly at the outskirts of his work. Today that seems timely; in time it may seem merely tedious...
NEWS gatherers have to pursue the news as well as turn up in the expected places to record it. Sometimes the pursuit involves distant perils; sometimes it involves the tedious work of extracting a few good pictures or a happy quote or two from a mountain of less promising material. Two stories in this week's TIME illustrate these two kinds of news pursuit...