Word: tedium
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...Avventura (in Italian). A tale of men suffering from the soul-sickness of despair, the film is a masterpiece of tedium, a parable of purgation...
...Avventura (in Italian). A tale of men suffering from the soul-sickness of despair, the film is a nightmarish masterpiece of tedium, a parable of purgation...
...Avventura (Cino del Duca; Janus), made in Italy by a respected but little-known moviemaker named Michelangelo Antonioni, is a nightmarish masterpiece of tedium, a parable of spiritual purgation, a myth for the Anxious...
...Adams House Drama Society pushed every button, pulled every level, manipulated every winch and pulley that the Loeb Pleasure Palace houses in its bottomless toy box, in an immense and elaborate hymn to tedium. Peer Gynt fell--like the silly feathered pig which makes an agonizing descent from the rafters (while the actors stand and star, speechless)--with a long long, oh so long thud. (Three long hours...
...ultimate in barbiturate prose is the point at which tedium becomes coma, and perennially bestselling Author Keyes may have reached this point in The Chess Players. Her great sedative skill can be appreciated only when it is understood that her material, as such, is fascinating. The novel is set in New Orleans and Paris in the 1850s and '60s, contains an amorous princess, various spies and diplomats, a slave auctioneer, lovely Creole maidens, and splendidly uniformed military personnel. The hero is a brilliant, brooding fellow who becomes the world chess champion and then chucks it all for love...