Word: tediousness
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...Month is leisure-class social comedy, in which sheer ennui acts as a stimulant and the yawn is father to the kiss. Where Chekhov's people bestir themselves too little or too late, Turgenev's seem overready; just because the landscape is flat or the drawing room tedious, they grasp at situations and embroider them, they self-centeredly turn dramatist themselves. But they are often worldly enough to be on to what they are doing...
...love with an Italian girl in Rome. Returning home, he has a new attitude toward himself and the public relations job which he soon takes. Remaining self-consistent, the action builds up to a series of crucial scenes. If some of the early parts of the film are tedious, they justify these scenes and make them real. When the young executive's boss humbles himself before his daughter and his employee, and when the man himself does so before his wife, the words they use have meaning...
...obviously thinks that I'll Cry Tomorrow [Jan. 23] is about some drunk who sobered up and got a second chance, or as he put it "a second career as a nightclub singer." He profoundly states: "A drunk, however, is a drunk," and "if there is anything more tedious than a lush, it is apt to be a reformed lush." Millions of people felt a choking feeling in their throats when they read Lillian Roth's life story; countless alcoholics, fighting their hard struggle to return to the world of reality, have been inspired and lifted...
...Lita Baron), a beauty who spends her time quizzing kids on the Bible (Eleanor Powell), a couple who have been ideally married for 30 years (the Sam Goldwyns). There was no telling how many fascinating residents were considered and rejected for the show as not fitting a phony and tedious concept...
Those with the strength to rise for breakfast and the courage to notice the faces across the table will readily admit that morale is presently at its lowest level. As the weeks seem to grow longer, the bells louder, and the lectures more tedious, undergraduates can look back to the day when much of the miserable mood set in--the Wednesday when classes met for the new semester. If there were a pause of at least three days between exam period and the second semester, providing an opportunity to recover from exams and to prepare for the next cycle, spirits...