Word: tediousness
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...rehearse his brilliant legal career would be out of place though scarcely tedious. The fact of essential interest is that he went out to India five years ago and found it seething with unrest. As everyone knows, India is now, if not*** calm, at least much calmer. The little bourgeois from London marts has performed marvels of constructive statemanship...
...work that is more generally sought after by college undergraduates than that which may be covered under the heading of, "Tutor or Tutor Companion." Such work is generally well paid. It is distinctly of a white collar nature; it is very pleasant, and, in most cases, is neither tedious nor laborious. Due to the nature of the work, many people desire it, but the number of jobs in this field is relatively small. The number of men who will actually qualify for it is usually equally small, due to the qualifications that are required from such...
...pill, which the Deputies have so often balked at swallowing. Since the deliberations at Geneva had fallen through, M. Briand could only express the hope that postponement would resolve that difficulty. Since the new Cabinet is merely the last Cabinet revamped, there was little else to say. With this tedious interlude over, the Deputies began again literally to tear one another's hair and rend one another's garments over a "manufactured" issue which they seemed to welcome...
Whether or not Mr. Thomas' point is true must be left to the courage and the conscience of the individual. His argument, as presented in a play, is formidably tedious. His central character is a Senator, of liberal tendencies, against whom the drys are massing fat rolls of slush money. There is a clergyman in the play whose college son is pictured as a sleuth for the drys, gumshoeing around the college resorts and reporting secretly to his father's party. All this makes earnest but stuffy drama. Actor Thurston Hall plays the leading part, well enough. At the opening...
...tradition. Yet she usually gives a good performance. Embers is a French play, no better nor yet any worse than the average French play. An evening spent in inspecting its current incarnation will not be wasted. Yet for two acts and despite Mr. Miller it will be perhaps tedious...