Word: tediousness
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...uncovering, sometimes gently, often ironically, what they really mean and what emotions within are contending with the sham of their spoken words. It has been Miss Parish's distinct triumph that she has accomplished this largely within the speeches of of the characters themselves, and has not resorted to tedious obiter dicta. Futhermore, she has decorated their halting or dissembling utterances with the impressionistic detail that filled their minds at the time,--the flowers on the table, a wide sweep of countryside, the pattern of a garden path, the set of a face; and by taking appropriate moments to repeat...
...said before and will be said again. The public is perhaps tired of the repeated hue and cry about "professionalism", "modern gladiatorial combats", and "over emphasis". But repetition is one of the laws of education. A few score men will continue to fight these at the risk of becoming tedious...
Washington correspondents, irritated by the tedious roaring of Senator Heflin of Alabama, have sometimes agreed to keep "his speeches "off the wire." He has been called a modern Ben Gunn,* a "stuffed white waistcoat" and even a "flat tire"; but his oratory is unpreventable. Last week his subject was an alleged $1,000,000 fund of the Knights of Columbus to carry on war propaganda against Mexico; his words might have been confined, unnoticed, to the Congressional Record, had not leading Democratic Senators risen to rebuke him. For three hours, Democrats talked. Republicans smiled, walked in and out, said nothing...
...Pittsburgh Presbyterian Church, Mr. Cadman, as a lad, entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Co., worked as messenger boy under Charles M. Schwab. Into the office he dragged couplings, hung them on a frame, created a metallophone after a fashion. Thus equipped, he be guiled the tedious hours of clerks and bookkeepers with lilting, popular tunes. During these "office days," the melodies kept rippling through his head, took embryonic form. People marvel sometimes that his well-known song, "At Dawning," which alone paid for his beautiful summer home, was put down on black and white in less than...
...persistence of this attitude, it is not surprising I there is little productive research carried on by young Doctors of Philosophy. Nearly all of them would prefer to I teach, than to spend time in tiresome and painstaking solution of historical problems. And the research itself, tedious and exacting though it is, does not tell the whole story of a scholar's task. There is facing the inquirer the orderly and accurate presentation of his acquired facts. Few men today have the patience or the skill in writing to attempt this expository task. In this decline of capable writers lies...