Word: tediousness
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...years later. But recently, when a Danish art critic came to call, Jean molded a few details. "He was a small man," recalled Sculptor Gauguin. "His sailor's papers say 162 centimeters [5 ft. 3½ in.]. I believe he used high heels. He was rather boring and tedious, terribly ceremonious, difficult and fussy." Pressed for more, Jean said: "They also tell me that he gave me a penknife back in 1890, but I threw it away, of course...
...likes her mistress but finds her life confusing. She leaves to take a job with a woman who is a tyrant but at least leads a recognizable life: mistress of the house but subordinate to her husband, the master. Through Erminia's desertion. Irene comes to see that tedious family convention is not necessarily more depressing than her own joyless burden of freedom...
...least 100 county residents were taking or had recently finished the tedious "Pasteur treatment"*-a series of 14 to 21 painful daily injections. Since Labor Day, 1,388 animals (mostly dogs, but including 187 cats) had been shot (more than 200 last week) on the suspicion that any animal at large might be rabid. That the suspicion was justified was shown in a check of 48 stray dogs picked up at Calexico in four days: 29 proved rabid...
...London and an eight-acre, 16th century manor in Kent. His real rewards, says he, are to have achieved "independence, privacy and space." Despite such serene surroundings, he insists, "I have more in common with any other freelance, from a prostitute to a delicatessen owner, than the stiff, abstract tedious people from the literary world...
...John and Katherine engage in their desultory first act conversation, however, he poses as a widower who has slept around, but "never with anyone I could care for." The two tell each other tales of woe at great and tedious length, finally retiring for the night on separate couches in Katherine's hotel room...