Word: tedium
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...petty routine. Here, however, the characters slide quickly into a current of self-revelation that sweeps on to a grim transfer of identities at the end. Though Stefan and Benedict wring an ironic humor out of their parts, there is no room in A Slight Ache for the mocking tedium that helps to cushion the themes of The Caretaker and The Dumbwaiter...
...traditional conservatism of British critics and collectors. Even after 49 years as a pillar of the Royal Academy, the great Joseph Turner was so fearful of critical scorn that he never risked exhibiting his last, prophetically impressionist, paintings. "For years, the English art scene drove me mad with tedium," says Bryan Robertson, director of London's prestigious, avant-garde Whitechapel Gallery. "Nobody cared. It was a real problem just finding people who were worth a show...
Reports from Rauh indicate that the deliberations are becoming increasingly bitter. Henry expresses the growing tedium--and helplessness--of the delegates: "We don't know how to deal with a mind like Johnson's. He is playing a kind of ego, self-preservation politics that folks like us don't understand...
Reports from Rauh indicate that the deliberations are becoming increasingly bitter. Henry expresses the growing tedium--and helplessness--of the delegates: "We don't know how to deal with a mind like Johnson's. He is playing a kind of ego, self-preservation politics that folks like us don't understand...
...rubber plumber's friends in a box of gravel at Detroit's Station WXYZ whenever Silver galloped off in a cloud of dust. For radio listeners surfeited with news and music and music and news, Shadow, Ranger and Hornet are a welcome relief from the prevailing tedium of the medium. Nor does one need a 21-in. screen to visualize Margo Lane as she weathers perils that make Pauline's seem like playschool...