Word: tediousness
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...long after the polls opened, election workers knew something strange was happening. Voters were sloshing through the weather in unexpected numbers. In St. Paul, Duluth, Austin and St. Louis Park (a Minneapolis suburb), where voting machines are used, an astonishing number of voters were going through a tedious process. They had to push aside a metal cover on a vertical write-in slot 1½ in. long, reach up (the slot was 5 ft. 9 in. from the floor) to write a name vertically, from the bottom of the slot to the top. "Damn near had to stand on their...
...turn aside for a moment from the tedious, workaday aspects of haute couture...
...issue with his criticism of Cedric Whitman's interpretation of Sophocles' plays. The review is good, straight-forward stuff, a great improvement over Kaiser's "susurrus of hosannahs" days of last Spring. Lewis Begley's review of a collection of poetry essays by Wallace Stevens is good criticism but tedious reading...
...people's hearts in the only way left to majesty, which no longer can stir by bold decisions or amaze by feats of derring-do. He made ordinariness shine. Exhausting himself by faithful performance of the tedious ceremonial rounds, exemplifying in his family life a warm blending of affection and rectitude, he gave his people a standard of conduct to rally to. Winston Churchill, paying a last tribute to his sovereign friend, acclaimed a King "so strong in his devotion to the enduring honor of our country, so self-restrained in his judgments of men and affairs; so uplifted...
...Tedious scholarship forms will be a thing of the past for someone lucky enough to stumble on the $3,500 worth of diamond bracelets lost around Brattle Square Monday night. Mrs. Theodore E. Ames, 6 Berkeley Place, Cambridge, misplaced the pair of bracelets after attending the Brattle Theater...