Word: tediousness
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...play, however rife with crime, merely swirled with inaction. It was lavishly produced. As Irene Adler, Metropolitan Soprano Jarmila Novotna warbled arias; there was much social chatter, much wearing of evening dress, many period fripperies and titled ladies with pasts. As much as anything else, it seemed like a tedious drawing-room play, with a dead body in place of a butler...
...cooperation. Here, the McCarran Act, not security is the issue. Under its clearance system, obtaining visas is a one month process even for the most innocuous. But scientists, automatically viewed as potential spics, face delays of two or three months. Many turn down invitations altogether, to escape the tedious, often embarrassing, red tape...
...Culver, Anne Vernon, Colin Gordon) shipwrecked on a tropical island. For impudent light comedy, there could be no brighter situation to start off with, and no tougher one to follow up. The moves may be almost as clearly indicated as in chess,, but as in chess there can be tedious waits between them. In The Little Hut, first the bland British husband is carefully told what goes on, then the obliging wife is openly shared. The lover, in the process, turns as growlsome as a husband, the husband grows gay as a lark; and in due course, a third gentleman...
...weather was exceedingly warm and the ceremonies strikingly tedious. There was much inexcusable slugglishness and delay in the movements of the officials. . . . The aisles were crowded with a heated and panting congregation...
...brief narration which opens the film, introducing the sea as the villain, forecasts an epic. What follows, however, is a sprawling documentary, tedious in its length and disinterest in character, but at the same time impressive in picturing the danger and frustration of the corvette's task. With several delicate director's touches The Cruel Sea communicates the breathless silence of perilous halts in mid-ocean for rescues or repairs, and there are two scenes remarkable for stark visual impact-the sinking of H.M.S. Compass Rose, and the running down of floating survivors in a vain attempt to destroy...