Word: tediousness
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...encounter; and as they pile up, we decide C: (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give Ds. Consider C-a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sing the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole think boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much...
...prosecution was methodical, almost tedious in its presentation," says / Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School. "The defense came out swinging from the first, painting King as a bad and dangerous man." On the order of Judge Weisberg, defense attorneys were not permitted to tell the jury about King's criminal record, including his imprisonment for robbery. But they were able to portray King as a large, aggressive man who was legally drunk. Much was made of the officers' claim that they thought King had gained unusual strength and tolerance to pain because, they believed, he was under...
Cooling the mirror is an equally painstaking process that takes many weeks. Reason: if one section of the glass cools faster than another, it will contract more quickly, creating stresses that lead to cracking. When finally unmolded, the mirror will still require months of tedious polishing to remove any imperfections...
...happened to Mark McConnell, who achieved popularity despite the difficult and tedious material of Math...
Roughly half of this novel, Robert Stone's fifth, is occupied with putting together the complicated and elaborate house of cards that will spectacularly blow apart during the second half. In less assured hands, such a long swatch of narrative exposition might seem cumbersome, even a little tedious. Not so in Outerbridge Reach. A lot happens in Stone's fiction, especially when nothing particular seems to be going on. The author's laconic prose manages to be both dexterous and sinister...