Word: tedium
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...most days, however, the trial involves a fair amount of tedium. As one witness identified SIM cards, the judge, M.L. Tahiliani, read lists of mobile numbers into the record; a security officer from the Taj testified that he found a pistol, a magazine and an empty magazine in the debris of the hotel's Wasabi restaurant. The judge asked how to spell "wasabi" and what it means in Japanese, one of his frequent, meandering asides which he plays for laughs from the small audience of police officers and reporters in the courtroom. The atmosphere is markedly informal. The prosecutor goes...
...shot! Body drop, it wasn’t me!” All three of these songs concern 50’s recklessness, violence, and drug history, and end up cheapening some of the better songs on the album by creating a sense of tedium...
...that’s bullshit.” This is not the only instance in Paul Weitz’s new film, “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant,” in which Crepsley correctly associates his young apprentice with tedium, puerility, or just bullshit. In fact, the film is driven by leading adult figures who barely tolerate the unfortunate ingénues who have stumbled into the limelight of the film. Though it consciously perpetuates hackneyed young-adult characters and themes, “Cirque du Freak” is saved by elders...
...comes to realize that “the entire immense country in which [he] lived was made up of lots and lots of these lousy little closets where there was a smell of garbage and people had just been drinking cheap port,” an acknowledgment of the tedium and squalidness of quotidian life in the Soviet Union. Other stories critique the endless, labyrinthine bureaucracy and the culture of mistrust, where civilians spy on their fellow citizens...
...Best Original Screenplay Oscar for 1993’s “The Piano”—displays a dependence on emotionality that harms the film’s narrative flow. The middle section of “Bright Star” becomes an exercise in tedium, as the film first shows the happiness of the young couple, then the sadness Brawne feels when Keats must visit the countryside for financial reasons, then the joy she experiences when he writes her a letter, then the sadness she suffers when time passes with no word. There is no cohesive...