Word: tedium
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Despite the spells of tedium the author's Zen-influenced insights into the human psyche, his occasional humor and the magnitude of his feat redeem the book...
...exaggerator's art in it's best light: they are merely blurbs and rodomontade. In more complex usage, exaggeration does dynamic and suggestive work: it can be used to frighten or threaten , to reassure(oneself or others),to glorify and debunk, and, above all, to relieve the tedium of life to entertain. Exaggeration is one of the methods of all myth-from Olympian deities to giants like Paul Bunyan and John Henry, to mythic historical figures- Mao, say, or George Patton. A child exaggerates his parents' powers to the point of myth; heroes and caricatures, of course...
...report for work at 4:30 a.m. and, since he was not transformed until noon, often wound up on the set until after midnight. With his misshapen skull and body, which was in fact largely foam rubber, he was unable to lie down or even rest between shots. The tedium can result in tension on location, and there are some actors the artists will not work with. After clashing with Robert De Niro on The Deer Hunter, for instance, Smith resigned from the picture and now refuses to go on a set with him. Says Smith: "Bobby is a paranoid...
...codes that would tell them whether higher orders to fire the doomsday weapon were valid, the other to trigger the missile's flight. Standing 24-hr, watches about twice a week in a silo 65 ft. below the Kansas crop lands, the officer led a life of unrelieved tedium. One day he thought of something else...
...important connections between events blur in the production's tedium; the vital subplots crumble into meaninglessness. The only spontaneity occurs when three-year-old Tyler Vogt, as one of Nora's sons, toddles onstage and glares at the audience. He's just as confused as the rest of the cast, but he doesn't try to hide it. Whatever the faults of Kean and company, their determination is clear, their failure noble...