Word: tediousness
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...think the motives behind them are genuine and well-intentioned, but I think having metal detectors will slow things down,” Lau said. “Traditionally, it’s a tedious process and a mad dash...
...nation's leading 'upscale supermarket tabloid' bears a distinct resemblance to shooting fish in a barrel; nonetheless, Young's language is energetic and engaging, making one wish (along with his father, apparently) that he'd find a worthier subject. Enjoyably bitchy specifics of Cond? Nast culture, buried beneath tedious social analysis and self-deprecation...
...piece, needless to say. True, these may be the final words that I write at Harvard (give or take an exam booklet), but I refuse to succumb to sentiment. There will be no leisurely strolls down memory lane, no wistful reminiscing about Our Vanished Youth, and certainly no tedious shout-outs to roommates, friends and sundry others. This will doubtless come as disappointing surprise to the merry band in Quincy 616 and 613 (sorry, Alex and Tuttle and Praveen and Brian and Andy and Josh and Allen) and perhaps to others of significance (forgive me, Abby). But standards must...
...only that, I absolutely refuse to include in this column any tedious, self-indulgent inside jokes, aimed at providing intense amusement to my intimates and irritating the heck out of everyone else. So there will be no mention of Wayne Barry Hill III, the Ross-Douthat-door-unlock, gibbons and seals, the Symposium, or Cake. And I’m not going to talk about my entirely fictional lisp...
...likewise refrain from ranting on, at tedious length, about what’s horribly wrong with Harvard. So there will be no final, impassioned attacks on the Core Curriculum (‘Worst . . idea . . .ever’), or on the wickedness of Senior Gift (it’s too late, anyway), or on the University’s blinkered pursuit of cosmetic (i.e. racial) pluralism at the expense of any socio-economic and intellectual diversity—both of which ought to be slightly more important than whether we decide to fund a Committee on Chicano Studies, don?...