Word: tedium
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...where does all the undeniable sexual beastliness go? Under the veneer of lifelong tedium, signs are apparent. Naughtiness pops up with cheeky regularity in such a sorry life. Comedians prosper in Britain merely by being able to deliver in plummy accents words like "moist" or "orifice." Usually they reduce audiences to hysterical convulsions, especially if the joke is surmounted with a veiled reference to flatulence. One particular guru of such humour, Frankie Howard, built a lifetime's personal luxury on his catchphrase "Titter ye not"; favourite stunts of his included the "naked buttock scene," to be outdone by one alternative...
...BOTTOM LINE: This portentous novel is full of guilty secrets, but the wages of wrongdoing may be tedium...
Duffy and Goodgame were not immune to the primary occupational hazard of the White House beat: frustration with the steady diet of manufactured events. Amid the tedium of 1989, Duffy recalls, "we discovered that Bush was popular not despite his lack of action but because of it -- and what's more, we learned it was largely by design." From this insight grew the ultimate Duffy- Goodgame collaboration, their book chronicling Bush's first term, Marching in Place, just published by Simon & Schuster and excerpted in this preconvention issue...
...courtroom is a study in waiting. This is not high drama. This is high not high drama. This is high tedium, even for the consumers. In the benches in the rear, a few manage to read a newspaper, but no one can concentrate enough to read a book. There is, of course, no talking, as the bailiff is quick to remind anyone who happens to forget. One ends up simply watching, and waiting...
...only hope is that winning a lot of money will make my life different. What will the tedium of everyday life matter once I am rich...