Word: tediousness
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...Clark. It is clear that he was acquainted with it because he has quoted passages from it several times although their dignified and flowing style makes the elementary rhetorical devices of Wilson appear to be feeble efforts of a grammar school debater. The reader is apt to find tedious a constant repetition of "and now, by God, he was ready. . . ." "but, by God, he was . . ." and in the same category may well be placed the omnipresent references to the shining eyes and wagging tail of Brewster, the canine mascot of the expedition, as he scampered gaily through the woods...
...initial attempt to transmute the warm fleshliness of his revues to the screen suffers the same cold fate as other Hollywood musicomedies. Original ideas such as garden-frocked girls dancing across stepping stones in a pond, or a chorus of 100 carrying assorted dogs in their arms, are made tedious by end less elaborations. Typical shot: miniature chorus girl perched on the rim of a screen-high champagne glass. ¶The Show Off (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). George Kelly's biography of a braggart was voted the best play of 1923 by the Pulitzer Prize play jury. In this modernized...
Metropolitan--"George White's Scandals." Movies about the show business have been excessively tedious and hackneyed. This is no exception and is relieved only by the presence of Jimmy Durante...
Fine Arts--"The Passion of Joan of Arc." The super-realistic treatment tends to become a bit tedious at times; well worth seeing, nevertheless. "Die Privatsekretaerin." Pleasant German film...
Fine Arts--"The Passion of Joan of Arc." The super-realistic treatment tends to become a bit tedious at times; well worth seeing, nevertheless. "Die Privatsekretaerin." Pleasant German film...