Word: tediousness
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...naive and pious as to offend nobody. Fielding's heavy-handed satire proves only that he was better as novelist than as critic ... so perhaps we should be grateful that he missed the point of Pamela's wary innocence. That he would in the end prefer a tedious trollop like Amber, I very much doubt...
Because he knows the beginner's discouragement in these tedious practice sessions when correction is so necessary, Marion is devoted to retaining their interest. In overtones of Yugoslav he encourage the fumbling novice, "Ya, good! Good!", then pause and adds in a confidential voice, "but next time you must ..." To the clumsy he urges, "be smooth like the violinist--zipp, zipp, zipp!," and compares the unrelaxed fencer to a "medieval knight." His sterner nature emerges with the repeated mistakes of more experienced pupils. Those who become careless may get a sharp rap from his blade...
...color and sense of medieval Bagdad, a great deal of Kismet could not be more satisfactorily sumptuous. But Kismet is too weighted down with finery to be at all fast on its feet, and even with Alfred Drake to pace it, most of it is just resplendently tedious...
Writing funny captions for the photographs must have been a tedious procedure, because very few of them are clever. A typical picture is one of a ragged little dog labeled Trixie, first and fiercest bulldog, supposedly demonstrating the dauntless spirit of the dogged Blue eleven. But the cut lines do the best with meager material, in a mock, curt, newspaper style...
Star Plotter. Astronomers think large thoughts, but astronomy also involves a tremendous amount of the dullest kind of drudgery. The most tedious job is figuring out the true position of stars from their swarming images on photographic plates. ,The Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University has developed an electronic machine to do most of this task. An operator guides a photoelectric cell to a star image on the plate. The cell automatically finds the center of the image and punches holes in an I.B.M. card. Then an electronic computer observes the holes in the card, figures out the true...