Word: tedium
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...education, or, if you're in high school, a letter from your guidance. The chief criterion for admission is ability to pay, and as there's no general financial aid program, most of the students here are people whose families are well enough off that they can avoid the tedium of a boring summer job, or go-getters who are attending classes and working on the side...
...know what it was all about. And, of course, they are dreadful bores. Robert Altman, generally the most interesting of directors, forthrightly admits that 3 Women is based on some nightwork he recently did, but his candor regarding the source of the movie does not redeem it from tedium...
...work as an introduction to Cavafy, mitigating to some degree the overabundant attention to less lively details (such as the poet's finances), which are nonetheless of primary concern to those who are truly preoccupied with the poet. But one cannot really criticize Liddell for thoroughness verging on tedium--after all, thoroughness is his avowed goal. An invaluable last word for aficionados, a complete and scholarly treatment of a much neglected subject, Liddell's biography is not, however, calculated to generate a great upsurge of interest in the poet. English-speaking readers are much more likely to encounter Cavafy...
...course the jobs themselves are difficult. The worker on the pipeline makes his big money during the hours he puts in on overtime, which usually doubles the regular eight-hour working day. Faulkner said he found the mental tedium of a typical eighteen-hour day on the job agonizing. "You sell your soul to ALYESKA when you go to the 'line'," he said. But Faulkner acknowledged afterwards, "I'll probably end up going back there next summer, because where else can I earn that much money?" Looking at one of his paychecks, it is not difficult...
Some fine performances compensate for the tedium of The Seven Percent Solution. Laurence Olivier is wonderful in his brief appearance as Moriarty. In the very pettiness of his personality there are the seeds for the drug-crazed Holmes's perception of him as a titanic power of evil. Alan Arkin portrays a surprisingly endearing and benign Sigmund Freud with none of the brooding, neurotic quality one might expect. Arkin's Freud is all kindliness and sanity. Vanessa Redgrave is an appropriately haunting and romantic Lola Devereaux and Nicol Williamson makes a fine Sherlock Holmes, the civilized British gentleman with...