Word: tediousness
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...ELIOT: "When this poet traverses 'Streets that follow like a tedious argument and 'Watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men in shirtsleeves, leaning out of windows,' he never stirs his sympathetic, supercilious mouth to call out even once, 'What cheer, me buddies . . .' Eliot seems to rasp at life itself, looking at men as living only in so far as they have not yet been buried. Yet with all his well-fifed madrigals of death and desolation, Eliot longs after life...
...airborne. Funnyman Shawn opened with a long and painfully unfunny monologue about the Confederacy, while Allen and Holliday were given little material with which to overcome that initial handicap. The best number featured Judy as a short-order waitress who gets involved in a ballet rehearsal; the most tedious-except for confirmed balletomanes - was a 20-minute dance revolving about a filling station...
...first, it looked as if New Yorkers were in for a slightly tedious, thoroughly respectable campaign for governor this year. On their records Republican Candidate Irving Ives and Democratic Candidate Averell Harriman could be expected to explore the issues with scholarly precision and to conduct themselves with the utmost decorum. Things didn't work out like that; by last week the campaign was not very respectable...
...Final Test itself tries so hard to be Englishly subtle that it manages to be merely tedious. The plot concerns a distinguished cricketer taking his last swings in a test match against Australia. He quits because his son, an arty young man who fancies himself a lyric poet, is mortified to tell Oxford classmates that his father is "in sport." After creaking through a whole series of domestic traumas, including a rather vapid romance between the cricketer and a barmaid, the story reaches its denouement with a testimonial to sports as the great leveler...
Painters and glassblowers had worked side by side at the furnaces. Brittle creations sometimes exploded on cooling, requiring tedious remakes. Old Master Aldo Bon blew steadily for three hours on Picasso's Burlesco. Exhausted in the end, he gasped: "What a sweat! Even for Picasso I would not do another like this...