Word: tediousness
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...marriage as a comprehensive study. He may be married in one state, bigamous in another and, after supporting his fair share of wives for a number of years, find that he has been a bachelor all his life. All these arguments Mr. Hughes has woven into a singularly tedious picture. The spectacular absurdity of his disposal of the villain (the hero throws him into a boiling Yellowstone geyser, the geyser evinces internal retching and active nausea, the villain is spewed several hundred feet in the air) provides a grotesque conclusion. One gathers that Mr. Hughes favors either a national code...
Heywood Broun: "It is, in our judgment, the finest play written in the English language in our day. ... a play for the ages, and to them it will belong once Mr. Shaw has died. It will then be possible to cut from it that which is tedious and overly sentimental and woefully verbose...
Practically all the gentlemen who sign these annual opinions (most of them are actually written by professional publicity men) mainly desire to appear cheerful, resolute and yet noncommittal. As literature, the reports are colorless and a trifle tedious as a rule; as prophecy, often ludicrous...
Reports that are tedious and often ludicrous...
London taxis are painted a sober black, and are notoriously slow and tedious. Like their French counter parts most of them depend on one or two cylinder motors of ancient vintage, often so small that they defy discovery in times of trouble. But the yellow invasion will change all this. It must not be expected that any New York promoter will be satisfied to send only five hundred taxis to so promising a field for exploitation as London. And since New York taxis reach their maximum efficiency only when manipulated by New York chauffeurs, one must expect a proportional exportation...