Word: tedium
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...loves hitting the perfect angles on the move - off your drop shot, your lob, your slice - more than him. "So stymie him by boring him to death," says Courier. "Play every single ball to the same corner, over and over. Deny him the pleasures of the sport." Another tedium tactic is to take extra time between points. "He's a rhythmic kind of player," says ex-pro Barry MacKay, a veteran TV commentator. "He likes to have things moving along at a certain pace. It's like a batter stepping out of a batter's box against a great pitcher...
...four years of leisure provided us by a college education should be spent fruitfully. We ought not fritter away our late adolescence and early adulthood, when our romantic sensibilities are acutest, in the tedium and drudgery of practical politics—whether manning activist brigades or scribbling position papers. We should be enjoying each other’s company without trying to win votes for a future election. We should be playing sports while we still have the time and energy unavailable in the future. We should be reading, writing, and thinking about the good life?...
...rare occasions that Cohen does move beyond this tedium, the novel feels like something a fifth grader would write. When Santini arrives with his six-pack abs in Tiananmen Square, he kills several soldiers single-handedly, shoots down a helicopter with a handgun, and then proceeds to kick the rogue general in the balls. If this is the way our leaders see the world, is it any wonder that things are such a mess...
...much I can write about because practically everything I do, read or hear is classified military information or is depressing to the point that I'd rather just forget about it, never mind write about it. The gaps in between all of that are filled with the pure tedium of daily life in an armed camp. So it's a bit of a struggle to think of anything to put into a letter that's worth reading. Worse, this place just consumes you. I work 18-20-hour days, every day. The quest to draw a clear picture of what...
...With each of these missions that are coming up, you're going to see more of the same awe-inspiring activities. And surrounding those awe-inspiring activities are going to be a lot of tedium and detail," says Elliot Pulham, CEO of the Space Foundation. "There's a lot of tedium and detail in this and I think we're just seeing a lot more of it than we have in the past." With tens of millions of bits of space junk orbiting Earth - including 11,000 larger than 10 centimeters in size - more such encounters with the shuttle...