Word: tedium
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Novelist O'Hara has seized on a solid theme, but has not written a novel fully worthy of it. The Son of Adam Wyngate is a meandering, overstuffed family saga, all too full of the human tedium which the skilled novelist suggests without reporting in grim detail. Clumsily written and badly in need of saving irony, The Son of Adam Wyngate reads more like an unedited transcript of family disaster than a dramatic portrait...
...work which Dickens used himself on his tours. It included humor and tragedy, complete stories and incidents, utter-affectation and sincere emotion. No less varied was the reader's enunciation. He varied his tone, not in an offensively obvious manner, but in a subtle way which dispersed all tedium from the more than two hours of essentially similar narrative...
...than two sentences per minute, but also chose the cast in the first place. Nor should Gerald Drayson Adams escape lightly. We may only hope that this stilted and faltering script will be his last. Hans J. Salter's grating and ill-timed music only serves to make the tedium unbearable. The costumes are absolutely ludicrous...
...dives, "fly" it like a fighter pilot in fast attack runs. Since the SSN's atomic engine needs no telltale snorkel to suck down air, it can travel deep underwater indefinitely. Its cruising range will be limited only by the ability of its crew to stand the tedium of days or weeks underwater...
Eurich and Wilson set up, revised, and tried out innumerable questions with the help of 30-odd researchers, several professors of arts and social sciences, and hundreds of submissive students. The team emerged from all this toil, sweat and tedium in May 1934 with a quiz they liked. The scholarly American Council on Education also liked...