| 单词 | tediously |
| 例句 | The longer he knelt there, scrubbing away tediously with his glum companion, the more he desired to raise his chunk of sandstone and bring it down with a crack on Nebre’s head. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z But he bristled at subordinating his personal quest for the truth to the priorities of the group, which included, tediously, the maintenance of the machine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A funeral hymn made its way around the church tediously but successfully. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He could make one perhaps from wood and then no one would have to tediously turn the spit by hand. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Johnny was so anxious to be on with the work—tediously delayed by Dove’s tricks—he hardly listened. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I can vaguely recall its twin red taillights ahead of us on the dark jungle road, bumping along tediously, and the false starts of an afternoon thundershower. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z While the day of waiting was tediously slow, the line to enter the circus moves remarkably fast, and soon Bailey is standing at the ticket booth, purchasing a single admission. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Long, thick, concrete tables and benches streaked tediously, in two rows, from one end of the hall to the other. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z With naturalistic performances like the ones here, such debate can seem even more tediously sub-Shavian than it did when the cross-casting loaned it a deliberate artificiality. London Theater Journal: Discipline, Punish and Put on a Play 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z A tediously bilious Twitter storm blew up, which six months later Jackson returned to in an interview, arguing that "The Avengers" was "not an intellectual exposition that you have to intellectualize in any way." Criticism -- what is it good for? 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z At other times, however, it becomes tediously self-conscious, laden with superfluous details, more stream of consciousness than story. Memoirs of Womanhood by Emily Ratajkowski, Toufah Jallow and N. West Moss 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Did you avoid Singalonga Sound Of Music purely because it didn't contain enough tediously protracted hand-jive sequences to meet your specified requirements? Flick teaser: How to remove a Grease stain 2010-06-02T09:15:00Z Theatrically, at least, two tediously juvenile hours make clear: There certainly can be. ‘Clinton: The Musical’ Makes Everybody Look Bad 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z It was tediously resilient, but it died, and we advanced to the next stage. The VOID Is Where Virtual Reality Enters the Dying Meatspace of the Mall 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z To give an example of a book I found overrated, Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” was both conceptually unsound and tediously executed. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Even though I’ve been watching similar drinks assembled for the past 30 minutes, I’m still in awe, and snap photos while tediously detailing each ingredient as I eat it. Venturing beyond the beer and brats in Milwaukee 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Who needs tediously believable situations, O. Henry endings or even truthfulness to life? Book review: Kelly Link’s fantastic, fantastical ‘Get in Trouble’ 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z He considered the previous rate of greeting-exchange to be tediously slow and resolved to speed it up. Christmas cards allow us to say much less to a greater number of people 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z But if you reflexively dismiss modern verse as dauntingly esoteric or embarrassingly corny or tediously singsong, you need to try Ted Kooser. Poetry review: ‘Splitting an Order,’ by Ted Kooser Let’s hear it for the boys — well, the ones who play girls, anyway — in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s tediously idea-saturated “The Taming of the Shrew.” Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘Shrew’: An all-male muddle 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The dude movie genre has become as tediously dependent on drug scenes as chick flicks are on shopping montages. Due Date Review: Downey, Galifianakis and Road Rage 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z On its own, this would have made good comedy, as there were also sideswipes at Bear Grylls' and Dan Snow's annoying presentational tics of adding drama to the tediously mundane. TV review: Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life; Veep; Walking and Talking 2012-06-25T22:00:01Z Look at the last decade of his work: he’s been almost tediously unstoppable. Hit the road, Jack Reacher: why Tom Cruise should ditch the goody two-shoes act 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z It wisely keeps itself to 30 or so minutes per episode — any longer and it would get tediously shaggy. Review | As a disturbing psychological thriller, ‘Servant’ succeeds. But it might hit too close to home. 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Apart from anything else, fans of both would probably be propelled into a tediously predictable state of ire. Impersonating Philip Marlowe 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z In Link’s stories, you won’t find tediously believable situations or even truthfulness to life. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Harcourt-Reilly is a preposterous device, the kind of thing found in a second-rate detective novel, where conflicts don’t evolve and resolve so much as they are explained away in tediously long monologues. Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Party': Shaken and Stirred at a T. S. Eliot Comedy 2010-03-19T22:09:00Z The love of sheer dance in such moments is atypical of his often tediously efficient choreography. Dance Review: Leaps and Bounds of At-Home Season 2010-09-16T04:15:00Z He spent 70 hours tediously slicing or washing produce — 100 pounds of onions needed peeling and dicing, 20 cases of mushrooms needed slicing, 760 grapes needed halving. Apps have turned restaurant work into a gig-economy hustle. Here’s how one cook chases a paycheck. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Everyone else may find it predictably, even tediously, cynical. Review | Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Politician’ is cool and cynical — and difficult to fully endorse 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Wicked City” is also the last thing a TV viewer needs right now — it’s violent in a dumb, done-before, tediously psychosexual way. ‘Wicked City’: An ’80s killer wields a knife — but he’ll gag you with a spoon 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The first act has these numbers that are as tediously imprisoning as the situation Phil finds himself in. With a heroic performance by its injured star, 'Groundhog Day' limps through opening night 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z This would all be tediously narcissistic if it were not for the persistence of history in the best of Nauman’s oeuvre. Review | In New York, a blowout, blockbuster retrospective of Bruce Nauman 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z This is indie-folk at its most exuberant and though choruses swell and harmonies bloom it still sounds tediously predictable. The Head and the Heart: The Head and the Heart ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:29Z Unfortunately, from a golfing perspective, the one glaring weakness of Myrtle Beach courses is that they’re relentlessly, tediously flat, and Bay Tree was no exception. Fairway to heaven: What happens to an abandoned golf course 2014-03-13T12:45:00Z It has been pointed out to me, not always kindly, that like just about every writer in the United States, I have become tediously obsessed with Donald Trump. Perspective | He’s not writing about Trump this week. And if you believe that, try this no-diet diet. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z A lot of this plotting is familiar — at times tediously so. 'Heart of Robin Hood' walks (and runs, and occasionally trips) along a new path in Sherwood Forest 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z But the film very quickly, and tediously, becomes more of the same old and Craven thing -- self-referential film buff gags accompanied by a clockwork killing spree that seriously reduces the population of a small town. "Scream 4" more of the same, but fans won't mind 2011-04-13T20:42:22Z But the tediously earnest book and lyrics lack narrative clarity and impetus, and the production never finds a way to match the impressionistic restless quality of the score with something as visually expressive. I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky 2010-07-08T21:46:00Z His strange addiction to being a tediously laddy berk has cost him everything. Olympus Has Fallen – but no one could fall for Gerard Butler in this 2013-01-31T13:10:32Z That tediously obvious premise is given no illumination in this film, which was presumably largely improvised. | 'Art History': ?Art History,? Directed by Joe Swanberg ? Review 2011-09-23T04:13:02Z It’s too bad the book is marred by Boyle’s tediously stereotypical portrayal of women. The Future Is Now, and Dark, in T. Coraghessan Boyle’s Stories 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z In putting the fetus on display, Dominik has made a tediously literal attempt to depict Monroe’s interior life. The Empty Spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s Fantasy Fetus 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z The only problem – and how tediously minor a problem it is – is that the composer's fiancee, who is also the leading lady, appears to be rekindling her interest in the leading man. Rough Crossing 2010-06-16T22:00:00Z Of course, the telling of the parables — the prodigal son, the good Samaritan — still fill lots of stage time, a bit tediously, with the performers adopting cute accents. ‘Godspell’ Review: Musical Theater Rises From the Dead 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z Gowns aside, this thing’s a snooze: Events unfold tediously, and there are many scenes in which extras with dirty faces, playing demoralized townsfolk, mill about in a desultory fashion. Review: "The Huntsman: Winter's War" Will Kill You with Boredom 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Most of the time Ms. Stroman’s work, tediously formulaic as drama anyway, is at its most predictable in terms of rhythm. Dance Review: Ballet Meets Broadway Choreographers and Composers 2011-05-26T21:20:50Z Despite Presswell's evident enthusiasm, the tediously talky, dramatically stilted results offer conclusive evidence that mastering suspense requires artistic skill beyond sampling the Master of Suspense. 'Candlestick's' blatant Hitchcock tone underwhelms 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z But it won’t surprise anyone who follows the news that there are quite a few tediously reactionary conservatives around these days. Let’s drop the gender stereotypes – we are all non-binary 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z This reminded me of Previn's film music, which sought to bring something new to a scene rather than to just tediously accompany action. L.A. Phil's vision of Grand Avenue as a shelter for new work, ideas 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z That leaves us with another full hour of tediously sorting through the ashes. Review: ‘The Present’: Even in Russia, It’s Hard to Turn 40 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z But Perry also showed all manner of rockers, rappers and punks alike that our accepted notions of music and meter were tediously rational and wholly drained of magic. Perspective | Behind the smokescreens, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was a true master of sound and spacetime 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Lee has a real gift and so, too, does Imogene, the difference being that before she can have her moment she first needs to learn one tediously long lesson. Movie Review: In ‘Girl Most Likely,’ Kristen Wiig Has to Go Home Again 2013-07-18T21:25:47Z While I have blithely been living what I considered the most tediously conventional existence, I have somehow become cool, or at least part of a gently escalating trend. ‘We have never lived together. Is that so strange?’: the married couples who live apart 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z All this gives Icke ample opportunity to skewer cancel culture, identity politics and political correctness, although the satirical and the sincere often coexist uneasily, especially when his supporting characters moralize tediously. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z But as the critters "skitter through a couple of acts' worth of noisy, tediously generic action … you'll have to appreciate what fleeting cleverness you can." 'Minions': Cute critters better off as second bananas, reviews say 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Bobby Moynihan We may not miss “Entourage,” but we do miss College Humor’s “Every Week on Entourage” series, starring Moynihan as Turtle, which parodies the show and its tediously repetitive plot tropes. “Three McConaugheys and a Baby” and more brilliant early sketches and side gigs by the current “SNL” cast 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z And the prolonged phone message that goes nowhere also seems to be tediously symptomatic of a character dynamic that has no other registers. Review: 'Birds of North America' locks its characters in a cage of dramatic constraints 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z The slam-bang stuff in this picture is too tediously routine. Review: Gal Gadot stars in the routine, less-than-wondrous 'Heart of Stone,' plus more 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Lipa’s particularly good at editing, he adds, at tediously working and reworking a chorus or melody. For Dua Lipa, Just Being a Pop Star Isn’t Enough 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z It helps steady the table’s tilt, which in turn stops the composition from being tediously symmetrical. Perspective | This painting is a rest stop for the weary, and a breath of fresh air Throughout his career, he had to win on schooled awareness and precise arm accuracy rather than innate gifts, and that meant he had to train more tediously than other greats. Perspective | For Tom Brady, the cost of greatness finally became too great 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z It quickly synthesizes information that might otherwise have required hours of tediously sifting through Google links. Fears about artificial intelligence are overblown 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Kosta said they’re “having a blast and don’t think there’s any fraud in their elections,” tediously reviewing the “oval” logic used in their arguments. Chicken analysts and Herschel Walker gags: Late night makes sense of midterm results 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z “They don’t have to tediously put everything in line by line and milligram by milligram.” 5 mistakes you’re making with Medicare open enrollment 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Viewers who can endure the at-times tediously dour first hour of “Next Exit” are rewarded with a tense and emotional final stretch, with a lot to say about what gives life meaning. Review: Millie Bobby Brown returns in 'Enola Holmes 2' and Daniel Radcliffe gets 'Weird' 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Snow crocuses are extremely affordable and well worth tediously protecting for the early and enduring color they bring to the winter garden. These perennial bulbs stand out in a garden ensemble and on their own 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z But DeWitt’s real subject has never been New York publishing, which Marguerite considers tediously “provincial.” Review | ‘The English Understand Wool’ is a little gift to Helen DeWitt fans 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Like Morrison’s work on everything from Batman to the X-Men, except even more so, the book is wildly and sometimes tediously self-indulgent. Review: Comics icon Grant Morrison's debut novel is a marvel of Oedipal camp 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Liberals, of course, will tediously insist that Trump and his followers are stupid, especially those who will vote for him again. Trump 2024 is almost here: King of the long con looks to play his final trick 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z A temperate climate has been more than a selling point for Southern California; it’s been practically a dogma, tediously pleasant weather marketed with a snake-oil hard-sell. Lightning, killer floods and even snow: The real L.A story has weather drama 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z But it proved a tediously long sit, freighted perhaps by an underwhelming translation. Perspective | Peter Brook was a dazzling stage explorer of humankind’s complexity 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z The first time I set up The Freestyle, it was a tediously slow and laggy process. Samsung’s Freestyle projector doesn’t live up to its $900 price 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z But I could also be describing some of the tediously anti-intellectual sentiments swirling around this year’s Oscar nominees. The Oscars are embracing better movies. The show acts like it's embarrassed by them 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z At the start of the year, more than 30 people were being treated in ICU - however to get to this point has been tediously slow. Covid-19: NI daily cases currently 'as high as 20,000' 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The most recent episode, “Too Much Birthday” — set on the occasion of Kendall’s obscenely lavish 40th birthday gala — allowed the siblings to tediously run riot with their rivalrous pathologies. The major miscalculation behind 'Succession's' unspectacular season 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z All of which makes the tediously cranked-up “Red Notice” only slightly more interesting as a movie-industry story involving enormous quantities of money than it is as a fictional story involving enormous quantities of money. Review: Take no notice of Netflix's limp imitation blockbuster 'Red Notice' 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The boredom isn’t helped by Tell’s periodic narrated tutorials on the finer points of poker, in which he tediously explains everything from percentages and probabilities to flops, rivers, buttons and blinds. Review | With ‘The Card Counter,’ Paul Shrader has, once again, crafted a haunting portrait of alienation 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Shermer rattles off examples of how phenomena that appear otherworldly may be tediously of this Earth. ‘There is stuff’: Enduring mysteries trail US report on UFOs 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z However, it continued, the current approach for discerning a user's tastes is unsatisfactory, because it requires them "to tediously input answers to multiple queries" about their age, gender and favourite bands. Spotify wants to suggest songs based on your emotions 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Witch-hunting, of which the president tediously reminds us he is the victim, began long, long ago, before the country was even a country. The United States of Paranoia: Was American history a conspiracy? 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Sally had been defined in large part by its sluggish pace, camping out over Gulf waters made warmer than usual by climate change and chugging tediously toward the coast. Hurricane Sally Slams the Florida Panhandle With Deluge of Rain 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Sally had been defined in large part by its sluggish pace, camping out over the warm Gulf waters and chugging tediously toward the coast. Hurricane Sally slams Florida Panhandle with more flooding, wind than expected 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z GWACs effectively cut through red tape and tediously specific negotiations by setting longstanding requirements to guide the purchasing process. Opinion | How One Man Conned the Beltway 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Like a rescued hatchling, it was in a pathetic state to begin with – dominated by white voices that tediously wondered whether anything a woman did was automatically feminist. New rules: the destruction of the female pop role model 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z It’s hard to think of any legislation that has been so thoroughly and tediously debated before its formal introduction. Editorials from around New York 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z He doesn’t really belong here, in a world where so much unruly masculine energy can only express itself, tediously, through violence. Review: 'This Is Not Berlin' vividly conjures a bygone Mexican counterculture 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Their feelings for each other are a tediously familiar tangle of repression and confusion, the kind that can only be sorted out with an almost-one-night stand and a mad dash to the train station. Review: 'Yesterday' imagines a world without the Beatles — and doesn't make you want to visit 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z ESPN+ recently aired a series called “The Boardroom,” which was produced by Kevin Durant and featured ballplayers talking candidly, if sometimes tediously, about the business side of sports. The Brooklyn Startup Helping High-School Athletes Go Viral 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Compared with older sister Claire – she of the hysterically uptight manner, creepy husband and tediously successful corporate career – she’s a mess. Fleabag proves that women can do glorious failure, too | Gaby Hinsliff 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Still, there’s no obvious reason why these episodes should be so painfully, tediously unfunny. Arrested Development’s fifth season undercuts its legacy 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Overlapping with the content of other suds-themed documentaries that have preceded it, “Beers of Joy,” profiling a quartet of enthusiastic ale aficionados, is tediously tapped out long before it hits the all-too-apparent two-hour mark. Reviews: Supernatural thriller ‘Stray,’ dystopian ‘Level 16,’ Jean-Claude Van Damme and more 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z There are a few differences from “Blair Witch,” which pep up a film that’s often tediously derivative. Review: ‘1st Summoning’ merely a ‘Blair Witch’ redud 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” they chanted — the tediously malign, thinly veiled call to end Israel as a Jewish state. Opinion | The Progressive Assault on Israel 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Milner was miles offside, and not one of those marginal calls, a VAR-bore where people talk about elbows and fingernails or argue tediously about the camera angle. Tension at the top starts to bite Liverpool’s creaking defence | Barney Ronay 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The clean-government legislation, tediously titled the Campaign Finance Reform Amendment Act, is anything but boring. Opinion | Ending pay to play in D.C. 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z At the risk of lapsing into the tediously obvious, I have been out for ice cream with kids dozens of times. I just got treated to a whole chapter in the book on ‘white fragility’ 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Religion might be a life-lie, but so might a certain kind of politics, the art of diplomacy, a pointless job, an aimless love affair, a tediously bright dinner party. Marginal Men Take Center Stage in the Novels of Dag Solstad 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z We discussed the midweek European action, previewed the pick of the weekend’s games and argued tediously over whether or not cows are able to tell the time. Premier League team news and buildup to the weekend's matches – live! 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Dishes tend to skew sweet, sometimes tediously so, as with steamed mussels. Fremont’s Le Coin is a comfortable and relaxed spot for the neighborhood 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z You tediously and carefully apply cosmetics in such a way that it seems you’re not wearing any at all. Brides are too afraid of becoming “bridezilla” to ask for what they want 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Like in other subcultures, arguments in the vegan world are often fractious and - for those outside the subculture - often tediously detailed. How a YouTube beef shook the vegan world 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z The animal movements were repetitive though not tediously so. In 'Doggie Hamlet,' a cast of canines, sheep and, yes, humans — ay, there's the rub 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Rubble was tediously and meticulously removed, bucket-by-bucket, as rescuers tried to clear a path to any survivors without further destabilising the damaged school building. In pictures: Mexico quake school rescue 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z “MOTHER!” begins in a creaky old lodge in the middle of a forest: a setting so tediously generic that it’s easy to imagine finding it as the stock photograph for “scary house”. “Mother!” is a startling scrambling of the horror-film genre 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Ruth Negga, as Tulip, projects escalating exasperation and isolation through the series, as Jesse’s pointless obsession with God and with his own power steadily, tediously takes over his life. Preacher and American Gods take similar fantasies in opposite directions 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Time-consuming tasks — shopping for ingredients, tediously preparing a recipe and tackling a trail of pots and pans — were suddenly and miraculously consigned to history. Perspective | How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Most terrible movies are tediously bad, not worth the effort connoisseurs of garbage would spend tracking them down. Crime thriller 'Mike Boy' is unspeakably bad, but you must see it to believe it 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z And, all the while, they are tediously, nonjudgmentally and in the most extreme cases monstrously focused entirely on themselves. Perspective | Mindfulness would be good for you. If it weren’t so selfish. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z Or at least, that’s a decent paraphrase of their first conversation, in which they tediously explain their motivations, character traits, and relationship to date. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a fan project, in the best and worst ways 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z One of them is the journalistic imprecation tediously if correctly invoked by New Yorker editor David Remnick in a recent column: Don’t get ahead of the reporting. Not so fast, everybody! Despite the Donald Jr. sideshow, it’s way too easy to blame Putin for everything that went wrong in 2016 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z To find them, scientists must freeze whole batches caught in the usual traps and tediously hand-sort them with tweezers under a microscope. The High-Tech Device That’s Like a Bouncer for Mosquitoes 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z A huge property – some capital cities are smaller – will inevitably lead to tediously long rounds. USGA eager for only players to take centre stage at US Open this time 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Sometimes it’s impressively funky and stylish, and sometimes tediously derivative. Horror-thriller 'Drifter' is a semi-successful exercise in genre homage 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The story meanders tediously, but there’s no real humor or cultural commentary to justify the offenses, which aren’t really that offensive. Recycled animation 'The Trouble With Terkel' strains to offend 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z It’s a weird but welcome moment of personality in a horror exercise that’s otherwise tediously routine. Despite a bit of dance, slasher movie 'Pitchfork' doesn't stray from tedium 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z These units are harder to site near the flooded homes that need repair and have been tediously slow in reaching the people who need them the most. Louisiana editorial roundup 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z At times it’s grotesquely violent, at others tediously slow. Review: Scorsese’s ‘Silence’ is a gorgeous, tedious journey 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z But my God, the last half hour is tediously po-faced. Lazarus: ‘A jukebox musical for people who are too hip for We Will Rock You’ 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z I am here to tell you categorically that this is nonsense, and the only people who claim otherwise are parents who want everyone’s life to be as tediously repetitive as their own. I’ve been a parent for one year, and this is what I’ve learned 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Until this year, that phenomenon was greatly, and tediously, exaggerated. Comedy’s new oversharers make even Amy Schumer look coy 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z In a better world, the statement would have been tediously obvious. Alan Gilbert’s Triumphant Biennial 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Before such engines were applied to the task, creating high-quality renderings required computers to crunch tediously through the calculations needed to simulate how light rays bounce around rooms and interact with objects. Engines of creation 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z He recently said his view aligned with that of the commissioner, meaning the days of clanked free throws and tediously long games might be soon ending. Intentionally fouling DeAndre Jordan isn't working out for Trail Blazers 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z It’s a consequence of our tediously demanding, entitled culture, and something that most concerned will eventually look back on with regret. Everton v Arsenal: Premier League – live! 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The erratic, tediously tragic franchise of old is gone – at least in the regular season. Will LA Galaxy's stars lift the MLS Cup? Our soccer writers predict the season 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Philadelphia will most likely find themselves fighting beneath the play-off line, but at least there is a hope that they might be so tediously tragic any longer. MLS pre-season power rankings: Nos 15-20 – the also-rans 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z “I don’t often feel sorry for Eddie Butler, but really. I suppose, though, that it has added the sort of frisson that’s been tediously lacking on the park.” Wales 19-10 France: Six Nations 2016 – as it happened 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Despite an initially hostile start, the two embark on a thoroughly uninteresting, tediously self-absorbed relationship, interspersed "Seinfeld" style with bits of black-and-white live performance footage somewhat relating to their trials and tribulations. 'This Isn't Funny' lacks chemistry too 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z It’s a consequence of our tediously demanding, entitled culture, and something that most concerned will eventually look back on with regret. Everton v Arsenal: Premier League – live! 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The memoir is a blast – a candid, funny, occasionally surreal antidote to the tediously safe and neutered modern autobiographies we are used to. Grace Jones: ‘I can’t be bought – people hate that’ 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z You’d need to be tediously one-eyed to deny that Australia deserve to win this game. Ashes 2015: England v Australia: fifth Test, day four – live! 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z “I don’t often feel sorry for Eddie Butler, but really. I suppose, though, that it has added the sort of frisson that’s been tediously lacking on the park.” Wales 19-10 France: Six Nations 2016 – as it happened 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Worth created this "tediously accurate" map back in February last year as a way of explaining the size of the Universe to his then-5-year-old daughter. This 'tediously accurate' map of the Solar System puts the space into space 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z On Wednesday, workers at Refugio State Beach tediously placed oiled rocks on large sheets of plastic, scraping the oil off with putty knives and wire brushes. Officials: Cost to clean oiled Santa Barbara beaches exceeds $60 million 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Although you eventually discover a map, it’s possible — if your cartography skills are as poor as mine — that you might end up sifting tediously through the game’s environment, searching for something to advance the story. VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Verdict on ‘Vanishing of Ethan Carter’: Thoughtful and unabashedly bookish You’d need to be tediously one-eyed to deny that Australia deserve to win this game. Ashes 2015: England v Australia: fifth Test, day four – live! 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye is 60 years old – so, happy birthday to a tediously overrated book that would sink without trace today. Sorry, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, but I don't buy into this idea of a female shelf life 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z First, there's a revamp in food logging itself, previously a tediously manual search-driven process that Jawbone's Travis Bogard tells me led too many Up users to simply give up trying at all. Jawbone's new Up app makes healthy eating a whole lot easier 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z By last summer, 25 percent of users were already accessing the county schools’ Web site via cellphones, even if it meant scrolling tediously through sites not formatted for the small screen. School districts using mobile apps to reach on-the-go parents 2013-10-29T16:46:07Z It’s now doing an extraordinary restoration of the murals on the first floor of the Senate side of the Capitol, tediously retouching the walls to restore them to their original 19th-century design. In the Loop: In the Loop: Odd names for spy games 2013-10-23T00:25:47Z The cult of the manager is tediously overdone in an era obsessed with celebrity, but it is legitimate to see this sixth-round tie in those terms. David Moyes left shell-shocked by Everton's implosion against Wigan 2013-03-10T23:00:03Z This is not the most celebrated PlayStation hack – that prize must go to 2011′s PlayStation Network data outage, which was probably tediously criminal rather than ideological in its intent – but it is notable. The Sony PS4: Worth Shaving Your Legs For? 2013-02-21T16:03:31Z In school assemblies he would read a selection from his small collection of well-worn books, with which we grew tediously familiar. The Spin 2013-01-02T10:30:59Z The men were disqualified after making yet another hash of a changeover, a tediously predictable turn-of-events. Five problems for the new head coach of UK Athletics 2012-10-29T17:14:04Z I’m not going to judge anyone who finds the whole thing too infuriating or too tediously familiar to do anything more than register frustration or disgust. "Girlfriend Mode", Borderlands 2, And Why Being A Dude Rocks 2012-08-13T20:37:51Z They are boringly selfish, tediously focused, because that is their job. Rewind radio: The Champion's Playlist; Hardeep Seeks Serenity – review 2012-07-21T23:04:24Z This again was the name of a real physician, who, in the sixteenth century, gained great reputation in Europe chiefly by restoring Charles V. to health after a tediously long illness. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z The list of magical superstitions that have retained a hold among us would be found tediously long. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z An expansion and hiring program is under way, but the process remains tediously slow; as a result, India’s Ministry of External Affairs is often forced to borrow bureaucrats from other ministries. India's Way: Private Sector Helps Propel India Onto World Stage 2012-03-31T17:32:04Z Now it was a herd of oxen that passed along, moving tediously and painfully, driven by half-naked cattle-men and guarded by a troop of grimy horse. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z Such references, whilst they occupied an undue portion of the book, would be ostentatiously and tediously pedantic in a work of so little pretension as mine. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z She could do a good nine knots, but her progress against the formidable ebb seemed tediously slow. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z I was nervous during the day, which seemed to drag tediously, and several times it was remarked of me that I seemed abstracted and ill at ease, but I held my peace. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Her furious entrance -- “I will cut out his heart!” was tediously staged by Grandage as a walk-on with maid. Dead Poet Brightens Met’s ‘Don Giovanni’: Manuela Hoelterhoff 2011-10-16T23:24:17Z Cider was tediously made at first by pounding the apples in wooden mortars; the pomace was afterward pressed in baskets. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Its hours went tediously by, marked by no special incidents till about noon. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z I may have been tediously demonstrative sometimes: but no one can fairly tax me with having shrunk from the severest method of evidential proof. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z In a paper headed “Hotels,” Mr. Smith expatiates somewhat tediously on the “old-established house” of the “old coaching days.” John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z He travels by rail almost to his destination or drives blooded teams over comparatively good roads, where his predecessors tediously blazed the way and cleared it of underbrush. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z “We are still in a soft patch and progress will be tediously slow.” Initial Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Rose Last Week 2011-06-09T13:20:41Z "I do not mean as regards the animal world," I continued slowly and tediously. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z A Chinese dinner is so tediously long that we escape it altogether. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z The Mississippi was near its high stage, so that travel was tediously slow, mostly by oar. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z Then, slowly and tediously, through the windings of the forest, they returned to the Abbey. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z "These nymphs the more tormented him than ever with crowding and pressing, hanging upon him, most tediously crying 'love you me,'" it was reported. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z Her condition is not dangerous, only tediously unpleasant--an�mia in a high degree, nothing else. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z The youngest good-for-naughts did, it is true, reproach him with having become tediously serious, and with great caution in spending his money. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z After a day’s rest, Joliet and his party left Akamsea July 17th, and tediously retraced their course against the strong currents of the Mississippi. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z But an opinion which stands in need of much illustration, can often receive it most effectually, and least tediously, in the form of a defence against objections. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I 2011-03-01T03:00:43.470Z The collection of the stories that makes up the Niebelungen Lied is particularly poor in fitting material, being sordid and coarse in the domestic parts, and tediously bloody in the heroic parts. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z The remainder of the winter passed slowly and tediously enough. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z For eight long weary weeks I lay there on my bed, or on the adjoining sofa, with my leg slowly and tediously healing, and my head much bothered by such long inaction. The White Man's Foot 2010-12-28T03:00:15.167Z Jerusalem is tediously familiar for cricket fans, who are treated to it before the start of every single day of every single home Test the team play. Commonwealth Games 2010: Fran Halsall sings wrong England anthem 2010-10-05T19:40:00Z Twice he fainted and recovered dim consciousness and still dragged himself tediously along. The Law of Hemlock Mountain I have drawn his character somewhat tediously perhaps, but it is because he has become in my imagination a sort of symbol and gigantic figure that stands between my old life and my new. Idonia: A Romance of Old London We worked our way along the African coast somewhat tediously, frequently encountering head-winds and adverse currents. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z They said it so often and so tediously that, at last, the Church has begun to say it. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man Otherwise the time passed very tediously; although I had not much rest, as I had to procure provisions, which was a source of great trouble to me. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. The night had thoroughly set in, both dark and foggy, and an hour elapsed tediously in winding up and attaining the vast level of the Wild. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 It does not assume the good tone or prattle tediously like our Norse newspaper articles. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The minutes passed tediously, but at last the door opened, and there appeared Dr. Medjora, only partly dressed, his feet slippered. A Modern Wizard Slowly, tediously, he crawled, for the most part on his hands and knees. Harley Greenoak's Charge It was tediously drawn out too by reason of the interpreting, and was not completed by the time the Court adjourned for lunch. A Veldt Vendetta In the six or eight ball game, the dangers being much increased, it is well to diminish the difficulties, or the contest may be tediously protracted. Croquet As played by the Newport Croquet Club While these things were thus acting in America, the adventurers in England were providing, though too tediously, to send them recruits. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts With great industry the compilers gathered together a mass of details; but their arrangement is faulty, and the text is broken up into such a multitude of divisions and subdivisions that it is tediously minute. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" This one incident is my excuse for thus elaborating this otherwise passive and tediously dull sketch of this night. Eleven Possible Cases And why did you lie to me, so meanly and so tediously?” Christine A Fife Fisher Girl I have presumed to testify this much to your lordship more tediously than I should; yet will be ready to do more particularly, if you direct me. Border Raids and Reivers The two hours between early supper and early bedtime dragged along tediously. The Portal of Dreams But it made our progress tediously slow, and our stock of small shot was so nearly exhausted that I was convinced our safety depended on increase of speed. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 Most of the treatises that I have read have erred in the opposite direction and have treated the subject from a tediously transcendental point of view. Modern marriage and how to bear it Time did not pass tediously on the train. The Kempton-Wace Letters The clumsy careful business of opening the door backward with his right hand and sliding out without taking his eyes from either of them was tediously slow. The Man Who Staked the Stars While the army lay in the entrenchments around Corinth, which the Federal forces under Halleck were tediously approaching, he wished to pounce upon the rich prizes in their rear. History of Morgan's Cavalry The white-faced gentleman descended, relieved himself tediously of the vast fur coat, handed it to Clarence and turned to the house. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Might you not as well be tediously dying as for ever shut up in that glebe-house—a place that, when I pass it, always reminds me of a windowed grave? Shirley It was tediously familiar, stamped upon his brain by repetition after repetition. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel Let me, at the risk of tediously repeating what is universally known, refer to the common principles of historical composition, in order that I may show their application to that of landscape. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Now I have finished my introduction,—having married my heroine to my hero,—and have, I hope, instructed my reader as to those hundred and twenty incidents, of which I spoke—not too tediously. Is He Popenjoy? Bear with my egoism a moment—several moments, for I'm going to be tediously autobiographical. Audrey Craven Not for him was the journeyman labour of hammering out tediously, and with infinite care, cold iron. The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 The afternoon passed slowly and tediously away, and again the Pilgrims went supperless to bed. King Philip Makers of History Now the process is comparatively speedy: twenty years accomplishes a great deal: then it was tediously slow, and a century seemed to accomplish very little. Pioneers of Science Then, not only is the shoal lost, but the net is seriously damaged, and must be tediously and expensively repaired. Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot The months of March and April seem to have passed tediously on, in watching the state of the weather. Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe Presently we turned up a narrow passage, leading from the high street towards the cemetery, and our progress became tediously slow as we moved with the close mass of people. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France These details may appear tediously minute; but let the reader mark how very much they involve. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Before the war the German power of organization was tediously praised in England, and our own incapacity for organization was tediously censured. The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Lady Langham was there, and his neighbor commended her tediously, convinced of pleasing. The Invader A Novel I have thus, I fear tediously to you, brought you to the last act of the great national drama of slavery agitation. The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 But an opinion which stands in need of much illustration, can often receive it most effectually, and least tediously, in the form of a defense against objections. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive She was beset with feverish impatience, as the four men dallied tediously over their adieux. Making People Happy Much of it, indeed, is stupidly and tediously didactic. Appearances Being Notes of Travel We tugged hard to force her against the adverse tide, but progress was tediously slow. The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" The people were excited at the dastardly murder, and began to complain at the delay in the trial, which wore tediously on day after day for nearly a week. The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad The time passed tediously to Godfrey, for the banks were low and flat, villages were very rare, and the steamer only touched at three places. Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia That is an early bearing characteristic which is inherent, but which, according to experiments and observations I have tediously carried out, is not totally due to ringing by the blight. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 She was tired of the office, the Elevated, the flat on 148th Street, the restaurants where she tediously had her week-day lunches. The Job An American Novel They found things, thinly scattered in the ten acre area that Rodan meant tediously to sift. The Planet Strappers Having thus set forth my personal position in the matter—perhaps tediously and to an undue length,—I beg to call your attention to my report. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play Never before had he dwelt over it so tediously. Cousin Henry That is, tediously redundant in rules derived from the treasury of popular proverbs,' and in feeble attempts at connecting these general rules with the special case before him. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 And after tediously waiting months longer, I succeeded without Simon's aid in obtaining my present honorable but unfortunate position. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac I have dwelt rather tediously perhaps on this sad occurrence—but I have a reason. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Towards the second night our progress became tediously slow, for it appeared to grow hot in proportion as the evening advanced. Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. The precious candles thus tediously made were taken good care of. Home Life in Colonial Days In vain did I read to her the great poets, choosing the strongest, the tenderest,—the golden rhymes of the love poems fell upon her ear as coldly and tediously as a hailstorm. Artists' Wives Russian Mission, Tanana, Rampart, Fort Yukon and the Flats were passed, and the days wore tediously on. A Woman who went to Alaska He is tediously amusing; he is brilliant to the point of being obscure; his helpfulness is so extravagant as to worry and confound. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation The short day passed quietly enough, if tediously. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales The old saying, so tediously often quoted, concerning love as a "thing apart" in the lives of men would scarcely have occurred to a medieval poet of Provence or Florence. The Task of Social Hygiene The last day wore itself away very tediously. Kept in the Dark Diatonic flow, with tediously orthodox modulation, overburdened with conventional graces, describe these innumerable and indistinguishable productions. A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing But he divined and invented prodigiously if he observed and recorded tediously, and his achievement remains a phantasmagoria of desperate suggestions and strange, affecting situations and potent and inordinate effects. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation One by one throughout the afternoon the miles crept tediously beneath the wagon. Deep Furrows Ward displayed the like quality amusingly in his remark to the conductor of a tediously slow-moving accommodation train in the South. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Reuben rebelled in heart, in face, and in action against the tediously long prayer of the parson, though the old gentleman's spirit was writhing painfully in his pleadings. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Afternoon school dragged tediously on, and the Den grew desperate. Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton To embarrass this demure professor, to presume upon her sex while discarding it, was a great joke after a tediously droned mass at San Jacopo. Little Novels of Italy Each of Buchan’s ballads is tediously spun out to enormous and unnecessary length, and is filled with solecisms and inanities quite inconsistent with the spirit of the true ballad. Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series The first was soonest over, but was the most humiliating, the second was terrifying and nerve racking, while the third tediously long and hard to bear. Little Maid Marian How tediously wore that dreary night away in the sickroom, where the insensible child was watched by his mother and her friend! The Rector of St. Mark's He begins with a disquisition on the worthlessness of life, and repeats somewhat tediously the story of his visit to Scotland. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study Why dwell tediously upon one particle, when the value of it consists not in its particularity, but in its harmony with the rest of the universe? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Thus beguiled, the half-hour occupied by the leisurely officials in providing us with papers and sealing the car with an important looking leaden seal, passed not too tediously for the ladies. My Friend the Chauffeur Payne followed tediously in Higgins' trail and presently by virtue of greater length of leg and arm, had caught up with him. The Plunderer And art it is, as surely as painting or music—art that can be tediously learned in a degree, but must be born in you if you are ever to excel at it. The Lion of Petra Slowly, day by day, the walls grew tediously up, to a melody of tinkling trowels. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought Though her words were slowly, even tediously enunciated they seemed to come with difficulty. A Pagan of the Hills The procession tediously winds to the great square in front of the cathedral, where the accused stand before a crucifix with extinguished torches in their hands. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Trust me, your time shall not pass tediously with us; at least you will find me and my daughter heartily desirous to do all we may to pleasure you. Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat The eager expectation, amid all these tediously slow preparations, was rather that of avidity than of curiosity. The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" At some distance from the western side there is a conspicuous hill, which we hailed with much pleasure, as being the first interruption to the tediously uniform scene we had for some time passed through. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 Never did a professional wit more ingeniously produce as sudden coruscations the bon mots tediously studied; never did a philosophical conversationalist use to more advantage the wisdom conned over in the closet. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The things of glory in this world are not so tediously many that they will not bear once or twice the telling. Winner Take All I must be forgiven if I dwell a little tediously on dates, for our inquiry depends upon the use of them. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Hundreds of pages are filled thereafter by tediously dragging in, mostly from other books, joyless and leering adventures of low dishonesty and low lust. George Borrow The Man and His Books The summer passed tediously, for we trusted that winter would at least check the disease. The Last Man A chauss�e, bordered on each side by willows, poplars, and limes, brings you--in a tediously straight line of four or five miles--up to the very gates of MUNICH. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three He says "tho we might be dragged along without them, it would be with much difficulty, very heavily and tediously." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. What shall we do in the family when the sermon is always tediously dull? Religious Education in the Family After that, the Southern darkness swooped in haste, and while we wound tediously through the immense, never-ending traffic of Marseilles, it "made night." The Motor Maid Wrecks of ships often sink below the surface, there to drift tediously about as long as the timbers hold together. The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip "Making Good" as Young Experts Mrs. Jawleyford's company making matters worse, they soon became tediously agreeable. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour But this branch of science is among the things which have been tediously learned to no purpose. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. We seemed to be going at a tediously slow pace, yet the two thin streams of water rushed hissing from prow to stern. The River and I The next day I am forced to sigh again over the same, miserable, poorly and tediously performed Funeral March of Chopin, and over the timorous B major Mazourka by Schulhoff. Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances But I have dwelt perhaps tediously upon this abstraction of the Scholar. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson To write this at the end of every round would make the directions tediously long, and the worker can find no difficulty if observing this note. The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. With fancy making for him these dreams of happiness, the day passed after all much less tediously than he had expected. Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale It is impossible, amongst the miraculous narratives so tediously enumerated in the Gospels, to distinguish the miracles attributed to Jesus by public opinion from those in which he consented to play an active part. The Life of Jesus On the other side of the path lies the abyss of tediously explaining too much. The Art of Public Speaking Therefore the moulds had to be once more prepared, and the fires rekindled, and the metal remelted, and all the work tediously and toilsomely repeated. Some Chinese Ghosts After a very long, and a very tediously sung psalm, M. Rollin commenced his discourse. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One The black days and black nights slowly, tediously, achingly passed. The Eternal Maiden This is another characteristic of De Quincey; he is sometimes tediously exact in his details; perhaps the minuteness is justifiable in this instance, as the statement increases the realistic effect of an imaginary scene. De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars We hum a tune and whistle to hurry time, but the indicating fingers of the tediously ticking clock seems stationary, and time waits for fair weather. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest Whether from design, or because age and his sufferings had really palsied him, he came back tediously to life and warmth, nor for many days professed himself able to stand erect. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches He might have told us the truth with cynicism; he might have told it meanly; he might have told it tediously—and he would still have been invaluable. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 In trying to reproduce Spenser's richness of imagery and the soft modulation of his verse, he succeeds only in becoming tediously ornate. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century Your business cools, while tediously it stays On the low theme of Abdelmelech's praise. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 By eliminating the word "sentiment" alone, which is tediously harped upon, several minutes are saved. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 2, 1917 And, moreover, the whole thing made him tediously homesick, and he wanted his mother. Tell England A Study in a Generation As to the reasons why it was not opened sooner, these are most tediously set forth in Professor Sir T.K. A Christmas Garland The hours of the afternoon, however, passed tediously away, and the sun began to decline toward the west; still there was no Mary Bell. Mary Erskine On both occasions, according to Baxter, Cromwell talked enormously for the most part "slowly" and "tediously" to Baxter's taste, but with passionate outbreaks against the Parliament. The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 In this address she reminded her guests of the occurrence in the Venetian ball-room, and perhaps exulted a little tediously in her present vengeance. Italian Journeys In this philosophic mood three more days passed—passed slowly and tediously, to be sure, but yet they did get by. No. 13 Washington Square The Englishman's forms of conversation were apt to be tediously inquisitive, and Anderson had often resented them. Lady Merton, Colonist As the armor worn was made tight at the sleeves with elastic wristbands, his remedy was to insert his fingers under it, and slowly and tediously allow the bubbling air to escape. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 It is an invention, cleverly conceived, mechanically and rather tediously worked out, and written in a style astonishingly commonplace. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 At some distance from the western side there is a conspicuous hill which we hailed with much pleasure as being the first interruption to the tediously uniform scene we had for some time passed through. The Journey to the Polar Sea It had a deep, dismal tone, and struck so slowly and tediously that my uncle thought it would never have done. Tales of a Traveller No easy work was it climbing tediously up the narrow footway in a sharp spur rising some 1,000 feet in a ribbed ascent, overlooking a fearful drop. Across China on Foot The doctor came in; I began telling them about the painters, but, being unaccustomed to talking, I was constrained, and described them like an ethnologist, gravely and tediously. The Chorus Girl and Other Stories The article was called "The Russian Soul"; it was written tediously, in the colourless style in which people with no talent, but full of secret vanity, usually write. The Darling and Other Stories "You always express yourself so tediously and incomprehensibly," said Anna Akimovna, and she walked to the other end of the big drawing-room. The Party Compared to these genuine offspring of undeflowered genius, the ill-natured and cynical caricatures in which Dickens, for example, so often and so tediously indulges, seem the workmanship of quite another species of being. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Being in some parts rather tediously minute upon matters of trifling interest, some freedom has been used in abbreviating its redundancies. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 —Called "the Welsh Poet," was a writing-master, wrote very copiously and rather tediously on theological and philosophical themes. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Weather melting hot; but every one was in the highest spirits; though we blundered tediously through the job, for we had no experience in the fine art of moving heavy weights by hand. In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Thus, ladies—and, my lord—have I tediously, and little enough to my own reputation, given you my character, and told you more against myself than any one person could accuse me of. Pamela, Volume II This day we went to the Jesuits Church and heard one of the learnedest of the Augustinians preach, but tediously. Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 It was Mrs. Nilssen who tediously nursed him back to health. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle But the best of these poems were pompous, dull, and tediously elaborated. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 56, June, 1862 The nights seemed tediously long and lonesome, for when the snow was deep no one came to visit us, and we could go nowhere, being completely hemmed in. Death Valley in '49 I know not how the time goes —but very tediously, 'tis plain. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 The constitution was tediously elaborate and minute in its provisions. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 But simple though this may be in theory, it was tediously difficult work in practice. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle After Shorthouse had once tasted the delights of publication and the pleasures of fame he wrote too much, and fiddled rather tediously upon a single string. The Silent Isle At this crisis, when the first weeks in October had dragged themselves tediously along, Mr. Caldigate, in a fit which was half rage and half moodiness, took himself off to London. John Caldigate In reply to this, without tediously labouring the argument, I venture to make the following observations. On Compromise Here I took a narrow path through the woods, and after following a tediously long road over the hills, reached Elbingerode, where I spent the night, and left the next morning for Blankenburg. Views a-foot That retreat is then most tediously described—a smooth green valley in the heart of the mountain, without trees, and with only one dwelling. Famous Reviews In order to make the time pass a little less tediously, she gave instructions for one of the better educated eunuchs to read to her during the daytime. Two Years in the Forbidden City Slowly, tediously, the great mast was rigged and hoisted foot by foot into place. The War in the Air So I rode tediously down M'Ginn's Gulch, which was full of crackings and other strange mountain noises, and was pitch dark, though the stars were bright overhead. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains The Martian who had been overthrown crawled tediously out of his hood, a small brown figure, oddly suggestive from that distance of a speck of blight, and apparently engaged in the repair of his support. The War of the Worlds There were too many plaintive memories which tediously plucked him back, with feeble and innumerable hands, as often as he trod upon the threshold of sleep. The Certain Hour There are other modes of procuring prussic acid, besides the one which has been so tediously described; but these are found to be more expensive. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype Why did time limp so tediously away with him, prolonging his anguish gratuitously? Wylder's Hand It is said of Sir Isaac Newton that he perceived at a glance the truth of many propositions that had to be tediously reasoned out step by step by inferior minds. Love's Final Victory The evening wore away no more tediously to the borderman, than to those young frontiersmen who were whispering tender or playful words to their partners. The Last Trail It is a drama in the epick style, inelegantly splendid, and tediously instructive. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 To describe the enquiries that passed between me and my uncle, the various fortunes we had encountered, and the feelings they excited, would be to write his history and tediously repeat my own. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Now it was Granville, now Townshend, now Bedford, now North--all tediously alike in their refusal to understand us, and their slow obstinacy of determination to rule us in their way, not in ours. In the Valley They converse more tediously and irrelevantly than before. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870 For, at bottom, any one of us is tediously like any other. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking But this was a time of such general hope, that great numbers were inevitably disappointed; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 The enthusiast of the lyre should not be so feebly, so tediously, delineative of his own feelings; 'tis not the way to become "Master of our affections." The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 First, we may try to assume, or tediously enucleate a consensus of religious truth as a basis of will training, e.g., Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene To enumerate those to whom I have been thus indebted, would be tediously ostentatious. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 By wading, I don't mean pushing laboriously and tediously through, but, by George! half immersion in the joy. The Delicious Vice The moment that process begins, their speech loses its gift of unexpectedness, and they become as tediously impertinent as the rest of us. Among My Books First Series They floated and sailed from the upper rivers to New Orleans, changed cargoes there, and were tediously warped and poled back by hand. Life on the Mississippi, Part 1. I have explained thus, perhaps tediously, an incident which struck me at the time as most singular. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee Days, weeks, months, drag tediously by, and nothing more is heard of the parole, or of the suit of new clothes. The Subterranean Brotherhood On each of these heads her story was tediously minute and circumstantial. Jane Talbot The two Balkan empires - the Ottomans and Austria-Hungary - endlessly, tediously, and inefficaciously tinkered with their systems or overhauled them. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism It is clumsy in plan and tediously dissertative, but it has passages of genuine poetry. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The parley was almost tediously long and the impending duel was arranged, White Wolf being very bold and defiant. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Of limited intelligence, they fulfilled their duties without inspiration, tediously, greyly, and dully. The Created Legend The arrangement is tediously symmetric, the coloring is rather weak, and there is a wooden stiffness about the figures. An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition But Boursault's pieces, which otherwise are not without merit, are tediously spun out to five acts. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Half an hour passed tediously, while upstairs Cecilia begged and bribed in vain. Back to Billabong They were very proud of the credit they had gained in the battle with the Romans, but said that they did not see any use in marching tediously abreast when there was no enemy near. Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion The oppressed Orient was full of prophetic utterances promising the return of independence and prosperity under the leadership of some long-hoped-for worthy prince of the tediously unworthy reigning dynasties. Vergil A Biography But again the artist is tediously careful to make his meanings plain. An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition I have thus, perhaps tediously, endeavored to show, that what is said in this work has been learned by intimate association, and that for years, with the Indian. Dahcotah Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling The time wore tediously away, and the passengers and crew were too much exhausted to keep down the water, and still they labored to do so with what strength they had left. Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea As a matter of fact," she went on, "he was rather tediously melodramatic. The Profiteers To him the future was more real than the past, which he regarded as a state of ignorance from which the world was tediously struggling. Caesar Dies Then he led Buck away, zigzagging tediously, at last passing from sight beyond an out jutting monster crag. The Everlasting Whisper Slowly and tediously the big car climbed the miserable trail to the rim of the Grand Canyon. Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John The task was tediously achieved, and without ostentation; and always the ship had its resplendent figure-head, as always it had its hidden, nay! grimy, engines, which propelled the ship. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations The day passed quietly, rather tediously, but all felt as they separated that they had fallen back into the old order of things; and that means much, very much. Rudin Travelling by steamer now is no longer a tediously drawn out vexation, but in propitious weather a pleasure. Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian Slowly, tediously, but with never a sign of hesitation, King made his way up the cliff. The Everlasting Whisper Comus "is a drama in the epic style, inelegantly splendid and tediously instructive". English literary criticism Lovingly, laboriously, and sometimes a little tediously, he was studying his environment. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism The old gentleman looked carefully, but not tediously, at my goods, never questioning a price. Tales of the Road The life of Sir Walter Raleigh, by Oldys, is a very poor performance; a servile panegyric, or flat apology, tediously minute, and composed in a dull and affected style. Memoirs of My Life and Writings A number of wharfboat clerks were needed, and part of the time, every day, they were very busy, and part of the time tediously idle. Following the Equator, Part 3 O, Lord, my heart is sick, Sick of this everlasting change, And Life runs tediously quick Through its unresting race and varied range. Bergson and His Philosophy She was only one of the tediously recurring sights of his captivity, and was loathed like all the rest. The Chaplet of Pearls The next three days passed slowly and tediously for most of the guests assembled at Grey Abbey. The Kellys and the O'Kellys Slovenia is the civilized facade that it so tediously presents to the world - but it also happened to have harboured one of the vilest fascist movements, comparable to the Ustasha - the Domobranci. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Perhaps rather tediously I have come to the few words I want to say about Baree, the hero of this book. Baree, Son of Kazan The days were tediously long while she waited in suspense for the result of the weighing in editors' sanctums, for the awful verdict of the critical Sanhedrim. St. Elmo I have tediously insisted that the natural system of banking is that of many banks keeping their own cash reserve, with the penalty of failure before them if they neglect it. Lombard Street : a description of the money market This was the result of what I insist on tediously, but what is most necessary to insist on, for it is a cardinal particular in the whole topic. The English Constitution She thought the time tediously long, and when at last the signal for supper was given, felt relieved. Beulah He plodded through the paper tediously from end to end, reading the murders and robberies a second time. On Our Selection He seemed to incline rather tediously to irony. Love-at-Arms The king nodded kindly to them, but during the entire meal, he only let some indifferent questions fall from his lips, which were devotedly and tediously answered by some one of the old generals. Old Fritz and the New Era Man's mind clumsily and tediously and laboriously patches little trivialities together and gets a result—such as it is. The Mysterious Stranger The heartstrings will bear rude shocks and sudden rough handling, but the gradual tightening, the unremitted tension of long, tediously rolling years, will in time accomplish what fierce assaults cannot. Beulah During the last month or two the days had gone tediously with him; for he had had the large house all to himself, and he was a man who did not love solitude. The Last Chronicle of Barset The winter set in, and wore tediously along; but at last there was a change. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 You have misunderstood my paper on a few points, but I do not doubt that is owing to its being badly and tediously written. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 The eager expectation of the throng, amidst all the tediously slow preparations, was rather that of cupidity than curiosity. Ten Years Later Unfortunately, I cannot now take the trouble to stop him; so once more I am forced to let his complaints come oozing tediously into my ears. Through Russia We had beaten the fire, as we had got to windward, and slowly and tediously we toiled along the crumbling soil, stumbling among the crevices, that were nearly invisible in the moonlight. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs Thereafter, with the monuments standing ever higher, and the distance perceptibly lessening, the minutes passed less tediously. Wildfire The grain which they commit to the furrows thus tediously formed, is either oats or barley. Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland And here Grandfather took occasion to talk rather tediously about the nature and forms of government that established themselves, almost spontaneously, in Massachusetts and the other New England colonies. Grandfather's Chair The bill was introduced, went to the second reading, and then Senator Mullens spoke for it dryly, tediously, and at length. Roads of Destiny The presence of these elements is among the causes which have made Englishmen think Anglo-Indian literature tediously provincial, and India a bore. Essays in Little Beshrew the witch! with venomous wights she stays As tediously as hell, but flies the grasps of love With wings more momentary-swift than thought. Troilus and Cressida They rode on to the foot of the down, and dismounting began to push tediously up that long nearly vertical ascent of blinding white road, Mr. Hoopdriver hesitated. The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll I remember myself—as a sort of anti-climax to that—rather tediously asking my way home. The New Machiavelli |
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