Word: tediousness
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Last week the Reparations Commission Sub-Committee of Experts deputed a Drafting Committee to begin the tedious work of reducing to concrete English and French texts the broad principles upon which the American, British and French experts had already agreed...
Iconoclast, we repeat, has not written a book of enduring value. But anyone who can bear to put up with tedious psychological analysis in order to reach a fascinating and jauntily-written story underneath should read this biography, whose author brings to his subject at least a sense of sympathy and understanding which does much to excuse the absence of other biological virtues...
...frosty. The interior of Memorial is repellant, the position of Memorial, since the center of college life has shifted to Massachusetts Avenue and beyond, is unfortunate. Finally it is in human nature--or at least American nature--to be nomadic. Even to eat constantly at home becomes tedious and to eat at only one place in college soon grows unbearable. Naturally, therefore, students prefer not to pay for board by the year (with involved methods of signing off) when they know that they will not eat every meal at that one place for even two weeks at a stretch...
...Crimson first year men were slightly off their game. The first period was slow and tedious. There was no unison in the forward line, the defence was poor, and Flood had more than his share of work in guarding the goal...
John Corbin: "Matrimony has never seemed quite so tedious...