Word: tedium
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...survey also revealed that students see some drawbacks to a legal career. Twenty six percent of respondents say the most unappealing characteristic of a career in law is a competitive job market, while 24 percent cite long hours. Other drawbacks include the poor image of lawyers and the tedium of legal work, respondents said...
Tank Girl's bleached blond mohawk is corn-rowed one scene, patently flipped the next. Even her eyes switch color, sometimes blue, then green, then one of each. Thank you, colored contacts! And yet we're spared the tedium of witnessing these transformations, exempt from time's progression and the mirror-time necessary to look as cool as Tank Girl...
...others in 19th century and finally to the universal motivating force it is seen as today. Specifically, Boswell and Johnson warned against the moral failing of dullness; Dickens blamed a morally bankrupt society for the boredom of some of its members and 19th-century women accepted the necessary tedium of their position and resigned themselves to needlepoint; we today think it our right to be entertained and are offended by boring people and things: so is boredom's history in a nutshell...
...just one aspect of the play's preoccupation with time. His medical training encourages him to see the world as his patient. The prognosis is grim: Russia's forests are being stripped, its fauna decimated, its rivers defiled. But in Vanya's eyes, time is static. Boredom, frustration, tedium will reign eternally. The choice these two philosophers contrive is desolate: the world is going to hell, or it's already there...
Victoria Morgan's choroeography, usually strong and well-integrated, contributes to the overall tedium of these two moments...