Word: tediousness
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...horror" and unfairly inflame jurors. Prosecutors had long contended that the photos, which graphically illustrate how the victims were killed, were essential to their case. It is not yet known when the prosecution will present the pictures to the jury, which slogged through yet another day of often tedious DNA testimony from criminalist Collin Yamauchi...
...only virtuous man in Scotland. He is the voice of conscience for nobles, commoners, and the king's delegate. he even gives the future king of Scotland a pep talk/talking-to. But after the first two or three speeches, his recycled arguments about freedom and liberty get plain tedious...
While federal agents -- thousands of them from the FBI alone -- continue the sometimes tedious tracking of every last lead, the lawyers have set to work. In addition to more than 300 attorneys who have signed up to provide pro bono legal services to victims and their families, O.J. Simpson attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. and Oklahoma City attorney John Merritt have filed a suit on behalf of several survivors against the maker of the fertilizer allegedly used as an ingredient in the bomb. (The company, ICI Explosives USA Inc., has responded that there is no evidence it was their fertilizer...
...fantasy? Just cut and run. Go somewhere else, find a clean slate, and start over. And this time, try to get it right. That relatively few people actually follow up on this impulse may testify to the power of inertia or the naggings of conscience, or to some tedious combination of both...
Instead, they carry out the tedious antics of Ann-Marie Macdonald's play for two and half frustrating hours, each singing his character's one note with admirable fidelity until the bitter end. It is impossible to know just how they would have managed with real Shakespeare--perhaps there would be some wobbling in those higher ranges that the present play does not attempt--but a glorious failure would have been at least more satisfying than this perfectly executed trifle...