Word: tediousness
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Olin Downes (the Times): ". . . very empty, tedious and ineffective...
...Rhythm," he exhibits in many examples. For "Story," he quotes and examines Walter Scott, for "Plot," Andre Gide. The result is a book devoted to the highest form of criticism, inquiry. To those who read novels as they watch magicians, longing for mystification, it will be merely a tedious expose of an art which is better left unexplained. But reading fiction is not like watching a magician; it is more engrossing when the difficulties of writing are apparent. To any writer, to many an intelligent fiction reader, Author Forster's penetrating analysis will be as engrossing as the fictions...
...boils down to whether you go to a Shakespere performance to see a good play produced in such a way as to afford you a good evening's entertainment or whether you insist upon seeing the same play done in such wise that it is thoroughly tedious, and disturbing, all in its atempts to be horribly classical. If you belong to the former school of theatregoers, there is absolutely no reason why you should not have a most pleasant evening at the Arlington Theatre: if you are of the latter type, the chances are very strong that Mr. Leiber...
...coating of dust which almost obscures the few virtues which Author Bacon, as an artist, possesses. Whether literature has improved or changed in the last ten years, cannot here be decided; but certainly it has changed its channel, and Mrs. Bacon's writings, once islands, are now dry, tedious wastes, unprofitable for readers to explore...
...address begins as a novel and ends as a tract, the recent general strike in England developing from a background into a thesis. The reader is left with an impression of Mr. Wells as a very sincere and vigorously intelligent man who has grown impatient and tedious...