Word: tediousness
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...physically because the man puts in one 18-hour day after another with no more sign of human emotion or human fatigue than a robot; tired mentally because Estes bores them with his unvarying routine, his dull, platitudinous, primerlike speeches repeated with little variation at stop after stop, his tedious habit of shaking one hand after another, looking at its owner with glazed, unseeing eyes, hardly hearing himself mouth some meaningless banality...
...praise is admittedly faint, however, for Dulles' action immediately preceding nationalization shaped Nasser's reaction. It is true, of course, that discussions with Egypt about the Aswan Dam had been long and tedious, and it is also undoubtedly true that Nasser was trying to bluff the West with a nonexistent Soviet offer. But how the West could have withdrawn its offer only two days after Nasser had publicly accepted it, and at the same time have expected no startling results, is difficult to understand. Washington obviously thought a public insult by the deeply distrusted West would result in the Colonel...
...Seine for lovemaking; to Notre Dame and the fashion shows. Along the way are substandard complications: Forsythe thinks Olivia has stolen his wallet; Olivia thinks Forsythe is trying to seduce her; Forsythe, eavesdropping on Olivia and her father (Edward Arnold), thinks they are lovers. But they triumph over these tedious misunderstandings and win through to love and marriage. It serves them right...
Shapley at that time accused the report as just a way to get headlines. "Beyond the same tedious material that McCarthy floundered with, there is nothing new here," he said. Mather brushed off the charges against him emphatically. "It is untrue, of course," he said. "The group of men on the list are a curious mixture of people. Some are out and out Communists and some are patriotic Americans...
...showed anything but the back of Einstein's head and because the human-interest anecdotes (Einstein flusters a colleague's wife by telling her how to cook calf's liver; Einstein flusters the parents of a little girl by doing her arithmetic homework) were played at tedious length. But Montgomery, who is also the White House television adviser, was consoled for his failure when he learned that President Eisenhower's TV speech explaining his veto of the farm bill got a large portion of the audience that tuned out the Einstein program...