| 单词 | tedium |
| 例句 | In my cave the tedium is worse, of course. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z After the war ended, Elizebeth’s work offered no more moments of nail-biting suspense, just endless tedium. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I started noting the deadness in Padre Ignacio’s voice, the tedium between the gospel and communion, the dry papery feel of the host in my mouth. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ordinary people could escape the tedium of their everyday lives, see the world, kill Muslims, and go to heaven in the bargain. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z When she entered the room, he hurled himself upon her like a madman to calm the terrors of the day and the tedium of his weeks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing for it but to sit in my usual place beside Mrs. Van Hopper while she, like a large, complacent spider, spun her wide net of tedium about the stranger’s person. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium, and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking, above all else, something like a state of grace. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Amaranta Úrsula, who already had her second teeth, thought of her nephew as a scurrying toy who was a consolation for the tedium of the rain. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z For months, I have not writ, having no paper upon which to write and no matter to record; our days passing in the tedium of routine, the languor of inactivity, and the terrors of disease. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But the drama of the opening arguments was succeeded by the tedium of court logistics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m pleased to have found a friend at these balls, where I expected to find only tedium. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z It helped me forget the tedium of moving only one way through the world, the way of the slow, slow body. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Knot had taken on the project of teaching Nailer to read, and it hadn’t taken long for Nailer to begin resenting the tedium of book learning. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Panic lanced through him at the thought of remaining married; without Ifemelu, the future loomed as an endless, joyless tedium. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z This was what Sherlock Holmes stories left out—the tedium of real detective work, the false leads and the dead ends. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Small periods of socialization are granted to alleviate the tedium. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, it was more than tedium the picketers had to worry about. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In my room we shared mean gossip about our friends, giggled over boys and whined about school and the tedium of life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They had brought over the fritter and drink stands from the Street of the Turks and the people were in good spirits as they bore the tedium of waiting and the scorching sun. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Organum became very popular across Europe - and, dare I say it, formulaic to the point of tedium. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In a sense, this pursuit of the Ph.D. was a bore to a mind that worked too fast to be satisfied with the tedium involved in thesis research. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I often thought of the tedium of life once one had seen all its surprises. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the years life on Orchard Street passed with a tedium that eventually congealed into comfort. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Those who had trouble completing the unimaginative, unvaried course of calisthenics did not always agree, but I was ready for any break from the tedium of the class-room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He adds that hard work is involved—“the tedium of going through what has often been written and read, and of masticating repeatedly, as it were, the same food.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The work was monotonous but not taxing; the changing products helped with the tedium. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There was my whole life for you, socks stretching all the way to the infinite horizon, a yawning valley of knitting tedium. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z These women are pillars of wonder, defying gravity while wearing the ho-hum aspect of perfect tedium. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Resolving the operational problems of late 1935 introduced a new occupational hazard for the Rad Lab staff: tedium. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The rest was a tedium the queen knew well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But instead I’m numb with the tedium of a hard life. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There may be moments of mind-warping genius in films like Orphée and Twin Peaks but these are more than offset by hours of tedium. Booker club: The Famished Road 2011-01-20T13:46:07Z After a few opening scenes showing the pomp of an assembly and the tedium of a classroom, adult supervision all but vanishes. Review: ‘The Tribe’ Communicates Without Words 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z But the scandal of Mr. Clark’s more recent movies, including “Wassup Rockers” and “Ken Park” and this new one, resides more in its tedium and lack of insight than its strenuously provocative content. Review: Larry Clark’s ‘Marfa Girl’ Looks at Dysfunction and Desire 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z His handlers work him over, and his voters and colleagues bore him with tedium about politics and policy. Meet Julio Torres, the New ‘S.N.L.’ Star No One Sees 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z But you should be careful to be just interesting enough, as excessive tedium becomes a joke in itself. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z What should be a light break in the action instead drags on to a point far beyond tedium. Video Game Review: 14 Years of Waiting Have Come to an End 2011-06-17T22:56:13Z The best way to watch “The Beatles: Get Back” is to take in as much in one go as possible, soaking up the tedium and transcendence of the band’s creative process. The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Her activities, all strikingly menial tasks, hosing out the bins, sorting felt-tip pens, and vacuuming the sofa, serve as an affectionate commentary on the tedium of the celebrity reality show. These Very Important People: who do they think they are? 2012-05-22T19:00:00Z Noise and club music has always attracted people in search of something new -- an escape from day-job tedium or social ostracization or just the limits of your own mind and body. Live: Arca unsettles and re-invents at Hollywood Forever 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The result is as straightforward an account of the sordid tedium of gang life as exists anywhere. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z For most of human history, life has been heavy with tedium and toil. The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now? 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Freud once noted the gap between the vividness of our dreams for us and the tedium we inflict in telling them to others, and much the same can be true of recounting your life history. The North (And Almost Everything In it) by Paul Morley – review 2013-06-13T09:01:01Z I’d much rather see 30 minutes of Robinson singing funny songs each week than have to put up with the rest of this tedium. Mr Robinson: NBC's new comedy struggles to look past the laugh track 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z And yet, somehow, it cannot quite relieve the tedium of a movie that is too cool even to pretend that there is anything worth fighting about. | 'Haywire': Steven Soderbergh?s ?Haywire? With Gina Carano - Review 2012-01-19T16:57:52Z Maybe, but I can’t help it: There is something too earthbound and ordinary about it here, an unnecessary tedium to the children’s scenes. Review: ‘Make Believe’ Has a Cast of Children, but No Fairy Tales 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Few want to explain their novels, and most lead lives of tedium. Edward St Aubyn: 'Writing is horrible' 2011-08-17T20:30:02Z Gabriel's stiff posture—hands at his side, body still and in front of a Teleprompter—didn't dispel feelings of tedium. Peter Gabriel's experiment with strings attached 2011-06-21T14:26:00Z More than cruelty and lust for power, the plodding tedium of bureaucracies, which take on a life of their own, are the engines of inquisitions. Books of The Times: ?God?s Jury? by Cullen Murphy - Review 2012-01-18T22:38:44Z In part, these games are in response to job tedium, while also fitting in with larger organizational goals, as they interpret them. Against security 2012-09-02T18:00:00Z Just as some people use celebrity gossip to distract themselves from the tedium of their own lives, perhaps Page's focus on environmental causes and feminism distract her from all the celebrity-focused nonsense swirling around her? 'Why are people so reluctant to say they're feminists?' 2013-07-03T18:00:00Z This can be uncomfortable, but the risk of tedium can deliver a special kind of intensity, a slowing of the metabolism and an awakening of the senses. Review: ‘Jauja,’ a Desperate Odyssey in the Argentine Desert 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Humanity may have lapsed into terminal tedium or hubristic stupidity, but that creature, with long, slender limbs and a cranium like a speed-skater’s helmet, remains interesting. Review: In ‘Alien: Covenant,’ Everybody’s Favorite Predator Returns 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Maybe the items will be used to illustrate the tedium of the marathon sessions and the challenge of keeping senators/jurors alert and focused on the proceedings. The Smithsonian is already hunting for impeachment artifacts. Senators, please hand over your fidget spinners. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Wharton had total recall for all the social rituals and tedium of this vanished world of her own childhood. Edmund White's top 10 New York books 2011-01-12T12:24:11Z Far too often, we are told of the burdens and bothers that child-rearing brings: the late nights, the money worries, the tedium of nappy-changing and tantrums. Growing up fast: why parenting in your 20s is the new punk 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z I just didn’t expect all of the tedium to go with it. Has former NEA target Ron Athey bled enough for his art? He's back with a new happening at the Broad 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Indeed, if there was a religion that could take the tedium out of long-term coupling, we’d all be converts. I don’t want to have sex with my husband any more 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Grief, anxiety, tedium, loss of control, restriction of movement, none of them rejuvenating, are part of our regimen. Aging in place: Many of us feel way older than we did just weeks ago 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z As the primary planner I would be the bearer of bad news, the target of raised eyebrows, the one responsible for tedium and sad continental breakfast options. | Personal Journeys: A Cross-Country Drive With a Guru 2012-05-20T05:44:06Z Too little and it flops into the tank of dull tedium. Your Easy, No-Sweat Guide to Picking Wines for Thanksgiving 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z It was the only thing that got him through the tedium of a job he hated. Everyone has a dream. For Jeffrey it was riding a CitiBike across America 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z During the pandemic, like a lot of people, I found reason to do things to create new experiences, to relieve the tedium of being locked in. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Who cares about a little unexplained blood these days? 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z The idea of Hogg plucking ripe seeds of porcelain berry somewhere in Hokkaido during a long day of collecting somehow eases the tedium of ripping the stems from the tangle of the fruit bush. How America’s frenzy for Japanese plants brought beauties — and a mega-weed 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z “This movie opposes that one with every fiber of its ornery being, including by its insistence on procedural tedium over cinematic excitement.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Hanna’ and ‘The Highwaymen’ 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Ordinary life during wartime — a shuffle of tedium and hysteria, bureaucratic entanglement and everyday pleasures — is evoked in fine detail. Review: ‘Allied’ Uncorks a Favorite Vintage, and Infuses It 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Even with underscoring, though, tedium can descend on a play that’s too diffuse. ‘House Plant’ Review: A Bizarro Breakup and What Comes After 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Discomforting and at times boring to look at, it conveys the tedium, incarceration and petty frustrations of war with unflinching veracity. Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z In comparison, Betrayal ought to be vulnerable to tedium through repeated exposure. Can you see the same play too many times? 2012-07-24T13:21:31Z It is a world she satirises in Questions of Travel: the tedium and distractions of office life, and the "hideous corporate speak" with its phrases such as key performance indicators and downsizing. Michelle de Kretser: Who travels? Who doesn't? What is home?' - interview 2013-06-22T00:33:57Z I rustle up some friends, Chinese delivery and wine, and we have the loveliest evening, joyously uninterrupted by the tedium of bedtime rituals. ‘We’re never going to bed’: children rewrite the house rules 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z It made a rickety opening, the first stretch of tedium in a not quite 90-minute evening that never did alchemize — partly, perhaps, because Daisey underestimated his audience. ‘Scott and Andy and All the Boys’ Review: Ripped From the Headlines 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z Across all three, Jamison’s journalistic battle between sentiment and detachment rages on, sometimes resulting in texture, sometimes in tedium. Up Close and Personal: New Essays From Leslie Jamison 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z These days, the Oscars are such a procession of unending tedium that the final award always feels like it should be given to us to reward our superhuman endurance. A brief history of the Oscars in viral moments they want you to forget 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z With “Medieval Play,” it would seem, Mr. Lonergan wants us to experience some of the monotony and tedium of unending, futile warfare from a long-vanished age. Theater Review: Kenneth Lonergan’s ‘Medieval Play’ at Signature 2012-06-08T02:05:00Z But by embedding Jennifer’s mental issues in a murder mystery of unmitigated tedium, this low-budget drama essentially cuts its own throat. Movie Review: In ‘Nothing Without You,’ an Erotomaniac as Prime Suspect 2014-03-28T00:03:54Z B. R. Myers, writing in The Atlantic, said that “no book review can convey the tedium of reading bad prose in such unrelieved bulk.” Denis Johnson, Who Wrote of the Failed and the Desperate, Dies at 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z After 19 months of pandemic tedium, it makes a lot of sense that about 50,000 people in Texas would want to feel all of those feelings together. Perspective | The Astroworld tragedy is impossible to understand, even if you’ve spent a lifetime in crowds 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Anifa Musengimana, 25, who is in graduate school for international marketing in London, is certain that chat bots can help make the tedium of online dating more interesting. We Need to Talk (Just as Soon as I Consult ChatGPT) 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z While the grinding boredom of grunt life feels realistic, sharing the slow passing of time with the soldiers places a burden on the audience, as we begin to feel the oppressive tedium ourselves. Review: ‘Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait,’ as Grim as It Is Cryptic 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Such a lot going on, but the overriding ambience was one of confused tedium. Rewind TV: The Call Centre; The Apprentice; The Americans; Love and Marriage; The Unspeakable Crime: Rape 2013-06-08T17:04:01Z “The usual shipboard tedium began to set in,” he writes. Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ About the Lusitania 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Beautifully shot video clips, projected on large screens above the neon-lighted, boxy set, capture the tedium of the office and other on-the-job frustrations. | 'Newyorkland': ?Newyorkland? at Coil Festival Shows Police Work - Review 2012-01-17T22:42:59Z Add two splashes of bitters and serve with a twist of tedium. | 'Happy Hour': ?Happy Hour,? One-Act Plays by Ethan Coen - Review 2011-12-06T03:01:00Z Richard Wagner's ultimate love story of tragic passion, deceit and death often ends up as an evening of tedium, or worse, kitsch. Stemme shines as Isolde in Wagner's love story 2013-06-14T14:56:09Z They are friends who save each other seats, and they are also both fed up to the teeth with the tedium of serving their country by doing nothing in a remote outpost. Israeli soldiers battle boredom in satiric 'Zero Motivation' 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Ninety-nine percent of going to a war zone is a lot of boredom, a lot of frustration, a lot of tedium. A more honest Iraq War story looks like this: “Sometimes the Marine Corps kind of sucks” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z One of the nicest things about Patti Smith, the author, is her readiness to display the foggy tedium of the creative process, and also its profound loneliness. Patti Smith, Survivor 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z It can be seen as the last play in a trilogy featuring British middle-class youth: it transmits both the alarm and the tedium of being young. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z You’re exhausted by travel, by family dynamics, by the brittle tedium of being yourself in an unfamiliar place. Perspective | I’ve seen plenty of beautiful artworks. But the Matisse Chapel overwhelmed me. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Those who don’t play video games might be surprised by how common the assigned tedium of Fantasy Life is across the medium. In Fantasy Life and Other Games, Jobs and To-Do Lists 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Yet all the cast’s resourcefulness isn’t enough to keep confusion and tedium at bay as this labored allegory unfolds in a painstaking parade of equivalencies. Review: Raúl Esparza Becomes a Very Familiar Fascist in ‘Arturo Ui’ 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z But like a Warhol factory film, the banality of the dialogue slowly worked its magic as you became absorbed in a world of spectacular tedium. Royal Wedding; Worried About the Boy; Girls and Boys: Sex and British Pop; Ashes to Ashes 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z The piece pokes fun at the tedium of artist biographies through a recitation of names and accolades. Review: MATA Festival’s Sounds of Play 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z What possessed him to come back after exiting the stage before his first love, American Idol, finally curdled into pure tedium? Simon Cowell without the insults: what's the point? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z In New York City, she clings to a “willfully boring” web designer, Brian, wondering if the tedium of marriage might suit her. Following a Punjabi Indian Family, a Missing Distinguished Novelist and More 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z "The movie starts to feel like some Buddhist exercise in deliberately inflicted tedium," according to Slate's Dana Stevens, who's been far from alone in her misery. Is The Hobbit simply too long? 2012-12-12T16:15:00Z The exhaustion and tedium of life on the road got Beiderbecke tripped up by alcoholism, which led to other health problems. ‘Bix’ Review: A Jazz Legend Fondly Remembered 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z It is how we, despite our portions of sorrow, tedium and disaster, persist in finding meaning in ours. The Downside of Immortality 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Long, docudrama-style shots of a Gould "double" meditatively walking through the autumnal Canadian woods or along city streets don't help, though they relieve the tedium of the "talking heads" format. 'Genius Within': A personal view of eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould 2010-10-14T20:41:00Z In another dynamite number that transforms the tedium of real life into heightened reality, a fireplug named Lexi Perkel enlivens a grown-up party where no one is paying attention to her. A Comedy Special for Kids That Gets Their Dark Sense of Humor 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z When he describes his disappointment in the tedium of his day-to-day life, he writes, “After the neon explosions of my hallucinations, I felt like I was living in a consolation prize, a cheap imitation.” David Stuart MacLean’s terrifying memoir of amnesia 2014-02-20T20:03:28Z And the very tedium I feared he would introduce into our lives ended up binding us together. Still Life: Dog Ownership and Video Games 2012-07-24T17:09:30Z The project requires math, production savvy, and a tolerance for tedium. Allan McCollum's Dynamic Work 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z This same principle of infinite significance in finite things provides Stepanova’s “In Memory of Memory” with its purpose, its emotion, its interest and its tedium. A Writer Shakes Her Family Tree, and Cherishes Every Leaf 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Others – whether it's the stress of cooking, the tedium of cleaning or the anxiety of dealing with family drama – dread it. Why vacations feel like they’re over before they even start 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z It is a revealing look at the bureaucratic and political frustrations of a large-scale project, though much of what is revealed is pettiness and tedium. Movie Listings for Dec. 20-26 2013-12-19T23:05:01Z Because many of the Broadway plays in which Ms. Murphy appeared turned out to be hits, she relied on her puckish sense of humor to ease the tedium of long runs. Rosemary Murphy, 89, Emmy Winner, Dies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Everyday jealousies, disappointments and anger share the stage with jokes, chit-chat, occasional poignant revelations and a lot of workplace tedium. Review: Annie Baker's 'The Flick' slow but funny 2013-03-13T00:10:10Z Life proceeds in fits and starts, through long periods of tedium interrupted by mysterious change. A man, a bird - and the winsome pair who play them - yield a useful message 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Redford also wanted to be sure to illustrate the tedium involved in the detective work done by the reporting team. Discovery documentary revisits Watergate movie 2013-04-20T17:01:05Z And throughout, the experience of the individual soldier, caught “between tedium and terror” as a veteran quoted here puts it, emerges with great clarity. Museum Review: National World War II Museum, in New Orleans, Expands 2013-01-12T01:38:46Z The shuffling of the images relieves some of the visual tedium of Zoom theater — it does feel more like a show than a reading. Review | Relief from Zoom sometimes comes in a box. A play in a box. 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Moving through cycles of tedium and terror, “The Gift to Stalin” takes its title from a national contest to find the best birthday present for that Soviet leader. | 'The Gift to Stalin': Story of a Jewish Boy 2011-03-18T06:03:01Z Though Friday evening was spared the tedium of more than one set of 32 fouettés, it featured other clichés. At Damian Woetzel’s Vail International Dance Festival 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Last night’s Super Bowl showcased some great football, some decent music despite the tedium of Coldplay’s pumped-up blandness, and, as ever, a barometer on the state of masculinity. The real Super Bowl babies: Big commercial moments paint men as infantile doofuses 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Any romantic illusions I had about being an actor disappeared over the next few hours, as I experienced the tedium of film-making. Nirpal Dhaliwal: My Bollywood bit part 2011-02-10T21:59:00Z Claustrophobic shots of religious rituals in which the participants scream and convulse yield more in the way of tedium than they do insight into the characters. Review: In ‘Cocote,’ an Ambitious Director Undercuts His Simple Story 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z But the script’s tedium is relentless, rolling on in endless waves like the tumultuous clouds in Maya Ciarrocchi’s overhead video projections. 2010-01-13T22:54:00Z And in retrospect, this lack of special investment in performance connects to the well-meaning tedium of the choreography. Dance Review: Movement to Fill Every Corner of a Space 2010-10-11T21:18:00Z It’s a political thriller with an almost infinite tolerance for tedium, a detective story with an obvious culprit, a courtroom procedural caught up in irrelevant details. Review: Amos Gitai’s ‘Rabin, the Last Day’ Looks Back in Anguish 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z There are enough of those moments to keep tedium at bay, but not enough to keep you from translating what’s onstage into ideological diagrams in your mind. Theater Review | 'The Book of Grace': At the Public, Suzan-Lori Parks?s Family Reunion 2010-03-18T03:57:00Z Coming after the slowly building emotional power of “Conversations” and the punches to the gut that constitute “Whistle,” “Famine” feels diffuse almost to the point of tedium. Theater Review: ‘DruidMurphy: Plays by Tom Murphy,’ at Lincoln Center 2012-07-09T22:58:53Z His camera focused on the intimate moments away from the stage: the sweat, the laughter, the tedium of life in a dressing room or on a tour bus. Bob Gruen Captures the World of Rock in Photos 2011-10-12T19:22:53Z "At best a major disappointment, at worst an extravagant exercise in tedium," she wrote of the film. Judith Crist obituary 2012-08-10T11:55:04Z In anticipation of that night of rapture and tedium, Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott offer their reflections on the deeper meanings of this spectacularly trivial, paradoxically important, endlessly fascinating and often vexing event. Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott on the Oscars 2012-02-18T02:03:03Z “We always used to joke that tedium is our lives,” the former says. “He could be brash; he could be harsh. He was very motivated”: The real story behind Fleetwood Mac’s “Tango in the Night” 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z But increasingly these are connected by acres of tedium. Have you been watching ? Entourage 2011-03-22T14:19:48Z Several older hands expressed frustration at the tedium entailed by transferring the bulk of their business online. Larry McMurtry’s Book Auction in Texas 2012-08-12T22:14:33Z What stood out most were the descriptions of “tranquil tedium,” a seemingly endless trudge through the “cubic” vastness of deep woods. Why the Most Popular Hiking Memoirs Don’t Go the Distance 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z His realism and regionalism provoked feelings of pride and pain; his art gave expression to the contradiction of the ordinary life in all of its glory, tragedy and, on most days, tedium. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The tedium of “assisted living” contrasts the heroic remembrances of such residents as a former World War II bomber navigator. How are these things not like the others? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The tedium of “Scenario” periodically builds to something more sublime, a testament to Ms. Walsh’s rigor. Review: ‘Scenario’ Embeds Secrets in Its Prose and Pauses 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z As it drags on for more than 500 pages, “The Terranauts” inspires a sense of tedium that could only be matched by being trapped in a giant piece of Tupperware. Reading ‘The Terranauts,’ by T.C. Boyle, is like being trapped in Tupperware 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z This led to what some would call a sort of tortured tedium. Bel Ami: The Ladies and the Scamp 2012-06-07T10:45:49Z Russian Doll’s finale allows viewers to vicariously experience that Technicolor beauty of recovery, without the tedium of addiction. Stuck on repeat: what is Netflix’s Russian Doll actually about? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Some shows fall victim to their own pace and devolve into frantic tedium. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 7: Whac-a-Mole 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Much of this episode concerns the tedium and humiliations of life in corporate law, the fate awaiting many law school graduates who are lucky enough to land jobs. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2, Episode 5: Do Not Attend Law School 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z A lawyer friend tells me that nothing has really got the sheer grinding tedium that characterises his profession right, except maybe BBC2's landmark mid-90s This Life. Is TV's portrayal of jobs unprofessional? 2012-07-10T13:39:33Z It settles nerves on a first date, instills confidence and relieves the tedium at gala dinners. Pot parties: how legalized weed is fueling new kinds of fun 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z But there’s a fine line between transcendent minimalism and brain-crushing tedium, and the flashes of poetry and fire in Abrahamsen’s music often seemed to wash away in a sea of musical thumb-twiddling. Jack Quartet fails to find a spark in concert of pieces by composer Hans Abrahamsen Their lives are high drama, at least to them, though the show elevates tedium to both a recurring theme and a comic foil. Drama Meets Tedium and a British Sitcom is Born 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z It’s a work of both desolate sadness and desperate tedium for violin and cello, just barely breathed into life, in almost total darkness, by Tarn Travers and Chris Wild. Review: Ensemble Dal Niente Brings Its Intense Whimsy to the DiMenna Center 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Once a concert pianist, Solomon Katz, the main character in Isaac Fellman’s new novel, “Dead Collections,” now applies his classically trained patience for tedium to archival work. He’s a Transgender Archivist and a Vampire, and He’s in Love 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Unable to lose myself in the story, I can only identify with the director and the difficulty and tedium he or she must have experienced while shooting their movie. Blogging "City Island": Until we meet again! 2010-05-03T18:04:00Z They understood that although solving puzzles has its charm, the enchantment fades with repetition, and that a detective who is himself something of a mystery is the best defense against that sort of creeping tedium. Television: Idris Elba Flirts With Demons in ?Luther,? on BBC America 2011-09-28T20:31:05Z For Headquarters And Pirates, a Test Of Wills and Wits In “A Hijacking,” his assured, intense second feature, the Danish director Tobias Lindholm turns tedium and frustration into agonizing suspense. Movie Review: ‘A Hijacking,’ a Modern Piracy Drama, Unfolds at Sea 2013-06-20T22:51:37Z Mostly he despairs about terrorism and capitalism after bombings in France, vents about the tedium of conservative Alsace and his own inertia, and laments that his father died while watching an Occupation-era drama. ‘Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream’ Review: Writing With Movies 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z If the first half boasts a shimmering ingenuity and ominousness, the second half goes down in a Hindenburg of repetition and falsity and tedium. Review | If a rich liar asked you to ghostwrite his memoir, would you do it? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z “For Life” is hampered by the formula of prime-time legal dramas, wherein the greater character studies lose out to the revolving subplots of cases, which can lead to a predictable tedium. Review | In ‘Tommy’ and ‘For Life,’ criminal justice reform comes from within the system 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z A video that riffs on zombies and urban tedium. Datebook: Zombies of Beijing, Chicano landscapes, fountain sculptures 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z If they resist, he suggested doubling down on tedium — reading “Paradise Lost” or screening a Tarkovsky film — so that they end up running into another room and doing something else. How to Entertain Your Kids This Summer 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z It was often intense and colorful, Tur said, but also featured long stretches of tedium, sleeplessness and discomfort. Taunted by Trump, ‘Little Katy’ stood her ground. And became a star because of it. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z All the action in their contest is focused on the count, and it is something out of a dystopian thriller about office tedium. A month later, this New York City primary is still a train wreck and a warning to us all 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Peart, unused to the tedium of touring, would read obsessively and soon the science fiction and autobiography and "junior philosophy" he was consuming turned into lyrics for his new band. Rush: 'Our fans feel vindicated' 2011-03-24T21:29:01Z On his way home he would alleviate the tedium by perusing the antique shops that used to line University Place in Greenwich Village. There’s No Business Like Art Fair Business for Sanford Smith 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Whether it actually avoids emulating said tedium depends on how engaging you find its two stooges. Review: ‘Ne Me Quitte Pas’ Takes 2 Alcoholics and Chronicles the Tedium of Their Lives 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But Ms. Dorvillier’s dance resources, and her understanding of music, are dismally limited: a few gestures, a few floor patterns and formations, and a few pedestrian meters all iterated ad tedium. Dance Review: ‘Danza Permanente’ at the Kitchen 2012-09-27T22:09:46Z This is a tale of captivity, with all its tedium and desperation. The way of the world 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z There is some tedium in knowing what to expect from one’s social-media feed, but there’s also succor. Reddit’s RoastMe Forum Is the Anti-Instagram 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z But the play’s mixture of ruefulness, bleakness and bittersweet domesticity never becomes gripping, and drama and momentum are in such short supply that you feel you’re living the tedium the title character has embraced. Review | Drama and momentum are in short supply in ‘Doña Rosita’ at GALA Hispanic Theatre 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z To be promised unknown pleasures but receive so much commonplace tedium is disappointing. Review: ‘Unknown Pleasures’ Makes Unfulfilled Promises 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The tedium might enhance the really enthralling parts — like reading a religious text, I thought, then read the line, “Let’s call this grey stuff light.” In Defense of Poetic Nonsense, With a Character Who Shares Your Frustration 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” the debut narrative feature from Jane Schoenbrun, exploits the overlap between tedium and fright, and locates both in the everyday dystopian realm of the internet. ‘We’re All Going to the World’s Fair’ Review: Is It Horror, or Just Ennui? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Her husband has left her, her tetchy adult son still lives with her and she’s tired of tedium. ‘In Fabric’ Review: The Dress Is Possessed. But It Was on Sale. 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “Mary had really passionate ideas about music, but she didn’t want them to involve tedium,” Baird said by phone. Mary Lattimore: Has Harp, Must Travel 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z At its best, the California group qualifies as carnival-level entertainment--something meant to distract the audience from tedium until the main act goes on. Pitchfork Festival Day 3: Tree, Foxygen, Killer Mike kick things off 2013-07-22T00:56:00Z The group produced the work during a visit to Tokyo in 1966, as a way to relieve the tedium of being all but locked into their hotel rooms by their security-conscious Japanese hosts. ArtsBeat: Painting by the Beatles Heads to Auction 2012-09-05T22:01:28Z In 1984, when he joined Food and Drink, food television was still in its infancy, far from today's monster of tedium and excess. Michael Bukht obituary 2011-08-07T17:29:31Z In the work of some photographers this uniformity might provoke tedium; in Strand’s there is the powerful sense of an artist striving to bring reality into harmony with the purity of his vision. Paul Strand’s Sense of Things 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Today’s players will demand simple yet powerful tools to create their own bustling virtual economy without the tedium. Critic?s Notebook: Dungeons and Zombies, Sure, but Here the Trade?s the Thing 2011-04-26T18:42:01Z After a century or so of this tedium, some monks started doodling in the margins, creating bawdy scenarios such as naked people running around doing naughty things. “Kiss my behind, King Cetewayo”: The secret hilarity of untranslated foreign-language movie lines 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Why not break up the tedium and have some fun? Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Other seasons, however, there's a general tedium or slight restlessness that sets in, almost a low-grade fatigue . . . and I'm starting to feel that this season might lean into the latter camp, unfortunately. "Top Chef: World All Stars" sputters with its Wellington battle heading toward the finish line 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z As with recreational drug use, tedium is often the catalyst. With Some Dating Apps: Less Casual Sex Than Casual Text 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The tedium of their work allows space for them to argue, bicker, compete and bond in David Gordon Green's oddball remake of a 2011 Icelandic movie called "Either Way". Quirky comedy film "Prince Avalanche" charms Berlin 2013-02-13T16:26:57Z She writes about the tedium of marriage and motherhood, the confusion and ambivalence over her first sexual experience, the grinding sadness of watching an elderly parent deteriorate. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Removed from the distraction and stimulation of normal life, these talents are amplified, and Lil Wayne’s ability to amuse himself in the face of crushing tedium becomes transfixing. The Screwball Poetry of Lil Wayne’s Prison Diary 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z After a while, the drama of the traffic stop, the chase and the beating fades into the routine tedium of the job. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z No, the hardest part for the semi-lazy cook is the tedium of meal planning itself. CSAs: The secret weapon of the lazy foodie 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z His South Africa-set 2014 comedy "Blended" was described by the New Yorker as a film that "harks back to grotesquely racist stereotypes" and by the Guardian as a "blend of skull-scraping tedium and casual racism." Native American actors walk off Adam Sandler movie; Netflix responds 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z If the dance as a whole ends up feeling small, a well-made miniature, it was preferable to the drawn-out tedium of “Middlegame,” his 2010 work that opened the program. Dance Review: Dusan Tynek Dance at Tribeca Arts Center - Review 2011-10-31T21:36:31Z Mr. Lafleur faces a challenge familiar to many young North American filmmakers: How to convey the tedium of contemporary life without succumbing to it or loading it up with dubious significance. New Directors/New Films Festival Gives Spotlight to Youth 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z And after the tedium, McCarthy says, "the final stretch becomes dramatically unconvincing and visually murky." 'Edge of Tomorrow': Tom Cruise action flick is loopy fun, reviews say 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z There’s even a running gag about the tedium of making choices in the turn-based combat system. Video Game Review: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Make a ‘South Park’ Game 2014-03-04T22:47:52Z Over two weekends, I saw most of the festival’s major events, and sometimes tedium was part of the theatrical experience, too. Taking Manchester to the Global Stage 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Even when these one-of-a-kind dishes are consumed, the diners do little more than smile before diving back into the tedium of their supposed problems. Movie Review: ‘Tasting Menu,’ a Foodie Film by Roger Gual 2014-04-18T01:49:30Z Mr. Corbin’s dances, generally set with metric predictability within the confines of 4/4 rock tempo, have a terrible rhythmic tedium. Critic’s Notebook: Dominic Walsh and Others at the Joyce Theater 2013-08-11T22:38:15Z It’s certainly more fun than reading Wikipedia entries or spending an afternoon in Cleveland’s shabby Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, though the central problem with the tedium of rock scholarship remains. ‘Sonic Highways’: Dave Grohl’s busy but beautiful road trip Because, sure, they’ve figured out how to make each fight a dance of perfectly balanced tedium which no one ever wins or loses because the actors are so protective of their precious reputations. Fragile masculinity: why no one in the Fast and Furious films can lose a fight 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z "Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is," a professor of accounting tells his students. Unfinished Business 2011-03-31T11:15:00Z Attending the conference would enhance his professional career, as well as offer him his first-ever break from the oppressive tedium of life in the Islamic Republic. The Poet Who Was Turned Away 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Playwrights nevertheless like to write about writers, perhaps because of their shared tolerance for tedium. Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Some hoped to escape from drugs, from tedium, from familial expectations. Foot soldiers and unheralded leaders of the Black Panthers 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z "It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition." The showman must go on 2011-01-30T00:03:02Z We enter to gaze upon beautiful artifacts at a safe distance, standing at the boundary between tedium and rapture. Movie Review: Jem Cohen’s ‘Museum Hours’ Explores Links of Life and Art 2013-06-27T21:18:15Z For Ms. Psaki and her allies — who know the power of a certain bury-them-in-facts tedium — this may be more feature than bug. Bully Pulpit No More: Jen Psaki’s Turn at the Lectern 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z It chronicles the lives of people trapped in soul-eroding tedium, yet it moves like a thriller. Dadaab refugee camp, detailed in 'City of Thorns,' is a world ripped from the world 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Usually you know exactly what to expect going into the Oscars; long speeches, self-satisfied tributes to the power of cinema, excruciating musical numbers, extended periods of flat-out tedium. Oscars 2021: the dresses, the winners, the weird semi-masked ceremony in a train station – live! 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Sheer tedium to deal with, but in his mania to get things right, Richard insisted on compiling it himself. Music’s Towering Intellectual, With an Appetite for Trouble 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z And here too are the city’s office buildings, in which workers are moved about like file cabinets and risk their lives with overexposure to tedium. Exhibition Review | 'Charles Addams's New York': The Perverse Pleasures Underneath the Ordinary 2010-03-04T23:28:00Z The London tube network, then as now, throws large groups of strangers into short repetitive journeys through dingy tunnels, fostering tedium but also the opportunity for chance meetings and missed connections. Underground depicts a world both far removed and familiar 2013-01-08T16:43:47Z But revisiting the series in the sixth week of coronavirus lockdown, I discovered a newfound sympathy – affinity even – for every character battling tedium in that room. Sense and social distancing: 'Lockdown has given me a newfound affinity with Jane Austen's heroines' | Josephine Tovey 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Whereas in days gone by a film got its authenticity from a dumpy Brooklyn apartment and a bickering ethnic family, today a movie earns its grit through corporate tedium and an unappeasable boss. Films once were an escape from work. Now, they celebrate it. What gives? 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z They’ve created a new class of employee whose mission is to infiltrate the crowds to help, entertain, instruct or simply distract from the tedium of waiting. Help Wanted: Someone to Soothe the Restaurant Line 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The idea of voluntarily enduring ten hours of its gorgeous tedium brings on a headache. HBO’s “The Young Pope” makes high art for TV, but the result is less than divine 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z I just didn’t expect all of the tedium to go with it. Has former NEA target Ron Athey bled enough for his art? He's back with a new happening at the Broad 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z But the work, which opened on Saturday, feels intact, and it shows the surreal glory of the choreographer’s vision while occasionally lapsing into time-slowing tedium that is, paradoxically, also a part of that vision. Review: ‘Viktor’ Is Vintage Pina Bausch, Complete With Gravedigger 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z They also manage to fall asleep in what look like impossible positions and to find ways to amuse themselves and one another amid the tedium and claustrophobia. Review: ‘The Iron Ministry’ Uses Train Passengers to Tell China’s Story 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z For a creature who had lived his life in tedium, he sure went out with a bloody bang. The best child on TV is on "What We Do in the Shadows" 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z Wanting to escape the tedium of a sales job, he enrolled in art classes when he was 19. John Olsen, Who Helped Revolutionize Australian Art, Dies at 95 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The modern at-home father is not immune to Betty Draper disease: the isolation and tedium familiar to housewives throughout the ages. Dads Are Taking Over as Full-Time Parents 2012-08-10T20:54:32Z But a one-note performance style, exacerbated by uneven acting, largely reduces the evening’s main event, Douglas Turner Ward’s “Day of Absence,” to tedium. Review | Daring idea, but flawed e xecution, in ‘Day of Absence’ 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Juliana, though, is eager to escape the tedium of aristocratic country life. Review | First published in 1924, ‘Still She Wished for Company’ makes for a delicious, if bittersweet, Valentine’s Day treat 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z It is a work of committed, almost magnificent tedium. Can a List of Someone’s Stuff Double as Literature? 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Was it not a pleasure to write the occasional sentence that, prior to writing it, I had no idea was inside me, a sentence that could make all the tedium and grind of writing tolerable? Philip Roth’s retirement lesson 2013-02-12T12:39:00Z He’s an unlikely romantic, one who sees excitement in tedium, beauty in trash and possibility everywhere. The Best Half-Hour of Comedy in 2020 Is About … Scaffolding? 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Sarah Winman’s sweeping “Still Life” is a parade of small stories, intimate connections and complex characters whose lives illuminate the tedium and cataclysms of the 20th century. Does Life Imitate Art or Is It the Other Way Around? 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Phillips, the author of four previous novels, including two for middle-grade readers, beautifully captures the quirks, tedium and magic of parenting a young child. Hunted at the Zoo in ‘Fierce Kingdom’ 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z It depicted an America so plagued by tedium and meaningless routine that its citizens are in danger of dying of boredom. Books of The Times: David Foster Wallace Biography by D. T. Max 2012-08-22T14:21:10Z In addition to the tedium and discomfort, the 22-year-old also had to contend with being naked in front of an unfamiliar film crew. Kimbra gets her chance to shine 2012-09-19T07:25:38Z As an escape from the tedium he began writing short stories that he posted on his blog and later tried to animate using his limited skills in Photoshop and After Effects software. Hong Kong’s Youth Culture, Captured in Disturbing Animations 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z If any band's music deserves the adjective "dreamlike", it is theirs – yet Nottingham-born Staples and his five cohorts walked a fine line between elegant restraint and tedium tonight. Tindersticks | Pop review 2010-03-26T22:30:00Z Perhaps to compensate for the tedium of composition and the ambiguity of their motives, literary figures on film are depicted as living strenuous, even strident, lives full of incident and feeling. | 'Young Goethe in Love': ?Young Goethe in Love? - Review 2011-11-03T23:48:59Z There were walk-outs, and the atmosphere they were leaving was one of tedium, not shock. Fat Whore: Kristine Levine – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-06T09:29:00Z I enjoy the Academy Awards for much the same reason I imagine most of you do: being able to make fun of the tedium, the clothes and the fatuity the day after the presentation. ?Next to Normal,? Drama Pulitzer Winner, Is in Some Way 2010-04-13T21:11:00Z Garcia is likable and reasonable, a Marine who accepts the corps’ absurdities, indignities and tedium in stride. A Comic Strip About the Marines: The Few, the Proud, the Bored Out of Their Minds 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z He needs something to relieve him of the occasional tedium of his work. ‘Museum Hours’: an enthralling view on life, art, mortality 2013-08-29T20:26:52Z Her memoir communicates the electric excitement of a scientific discovery; the discipline and tedium involved in conducting long-term experiments; and the arduous, sometimes thrilling experience of fieldwork. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Unfortunately that fulfillment arrives only with the final act, after almost two hours of ballet tedium that explains the long gap between performances of this production. Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Grand Duchess or a Great Pretender? 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z As you are a critic, you view and listen to performances through a very different lens than those who want to be soothed and enthralled after a long day of tedium. Is ‘Playing It Safe’ Bad for Classical Music? 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Preferring to leave the tedium of caring for other people's children to those who are trying to obtain residency rights, the former magical nanny is forging a very successful career since founding Practically Perfect PR. Clark Kent's got a new job. But where next for Morse, Jeeves and Mr Chips? 2012-10-27T23:18:27Z What she can’t do is rescue a story whose most shocking aspect is not the explicitness of its content but the tedium of its telling. Movie Review: ‘Lucky Bastard,’ a Pornography-Themed Thriller 2014-02-13T23:47:05Z After 12 hours with Final Fantasy XIII, I was already gritting my teeth at the tedium, no matter how gorgeous it was. Video Game Review: Chaos Rings: Answering the Call From iPhone Gamers 2010-04-23T23:34:00Z A frozen opening shot of the exterior of a luxury California home forewarns of the tedium to come. ‘Windfall’ Review: Money Talks 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z What Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa is all about is the sterility, emptiness and screamingly predictable tedium of modern life, and the inability of people to connect with one another. Anomalisa: Charlie Kaufman’s unique take on the mid-life crisis movie 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Her eyes were fixed with no great curiosity on aspot on the ceiling, her heart no doubt longing to be delivered from the tedium of polemic. Richard Eyre: arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid 2011-02-15T12:53:26Z Sometimes I block to avoid the tedium of jerks who hate me. Here’s why you’re blocked on Twitter: No stranger is entitled to my time or timeline 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z This movie opposes that one with every fiber of its ornery being, including by its insistence on procedural tedium over cinematic excitement. ‘The Highwaymen’ Review: Grumpy Old Men on the Trail of Glamorous Killers 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z At home she flees the tedium of runny noses and the anxiety of bankruptcy by taking long, hard runs every morning, and treating herself to movies with the one credit card that still works. In ‘Want,’ a Lost Friendship and the Anxieties of the Modern Family 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z They are, collectively, a convincing simulation of the tedium required of Olympic athletes to master a series of body movements. Video Game Review: London 2012, a Video Game From Sega 2012-07-10T22:55:43Z The line sounds like it’s about substance abuse, and “Her Smell” is unsparing in its attention to the awful thrill of using and the tedium and terror of sobriety. ‘Her Smell’ Review: The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll Transcendence Goes Through the Gutter 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z “Embarrassing indulgences”? “Reviled species”? I tried to imagine a reviewer who bemoaned the tedium of having to read any novel, or any book of poetry, before launching into her snooty tirade against a specific example. Reviewer Bias, Imperial Tongues and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z There were moments — the second act pas de deux, Ms. Murphy’s whirling third act solo, Mr. Hallberg’s dazzling jumps — in which the dancers made you forget the tedium of the material. Dance Review: Note to Self: A Good Pair of Shoes Always Ends Up Paying for Itself 2011-06-22T22:10:02Z That is the case here: An experience often defined by dread, indignity and tedium is softened and made beautiful. ‘Ordinary Love’ Review: In Sickness and in Health 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The word “confusion” is often chanted on the soundtrack — as is “humshakals” — but there’s more tedium than manic confusion. ‘Humshakals,’ a Bollywood Comedy About Look-Alikes 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z But I’m fairly certain its tedium stunned some of the cluster flies on my office windows. Books of The Times: ‘How Music Works,’ by David Byrne 2012-09-12T18:02:58Z Dismaland’s website – which is written in macabre, tongue-in-cheek language — describes the park as a “festival of art, amusements and entry-level anarchism” and an “alternative to the sugar-coated tedium of the average family day out.” Banksy's Latest: 'Dismaland' Theme Park 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z But the audience for “Mislaid” is surely limited, not by its politics so much as by those spores of tedium that eventually germinate and spread across the pages. ‘Mislaid’: Nell Zink’s subversive novel takes on racism and sexuality 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z To sustain an entire show without tedium, Mr. Farrington needs more of a point of view. | 'A Christmas Carol': ?A Christmas Carol? at Abrons Arts Center - Review 2011-12-11T22:50:21Z If excavating outside had the potential for tedium, this activity held an even greater risk, as it demanded similar focus and concentration — hard to summon after the morning’s adventure. A real Jurassic park lies underground at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z We were craving the break, away from our regularly scheduled programming, away from the tedium of our breakfast routines and Rice Krispies welded to sweatshirts. How to See the World When You’re Stuck at Home 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Each season of “Better Call Saul” has opened with a few minutes of Gene’s life, shot in black and white, a glimpse at a life filled with frosting, tedium and dread. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 10 Recap: Sweet Revenge 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z But putting on the show is a lot of work, and Mr. Wiseman’s particular genius has always been to convey, through judicious editing and dogged filming, the tedium, busyness and quiet intensity of group labor. | 'Crazy Horse': ?Crazy Horse? by Frederick Wiseman - Review 2012-01-17T23:09:27Z But the busy tedium of their lives is given shape and direction by the skill of the cast and by the precision of the director’s eye, ear and editing instincts. Movie Review: In Joe Swanberg’s ‘Drinking Buddies,’ Couples Face Tests 2013-08-22T20:54:18Z No one’s ever claimed that the Book of Mormon rivals the literary achievements of the Bible or the poetic grace of the Koran in Arabic, but I was still surprised by the tedium. The Book of Mormon: the Great American Bible 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z The great challenge of creating a manic-depressive narrator is conveying the intensity of his mania without forcing readers to endure the tedium of actual mania. Book World Joshua Ferris’s ‘To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ AnnaSophia Robb, who stars as Hamilton, cuts through some of the gooey tedium with a naturally athletic presence and no-nonsense attitude. Capsule reviews: `Arthur,' `Hanna' 2011-04-07T17:01:22Z “Queen of Diamonds,” a 1991 film by Nina Menkes set in Vegas now debuting in a new restoration, is, among other things, an urgent portrayal of the tedium of endless transaction. ‘Queen of Diamonds’ Review: Fear, Loathing and Misogyny 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z But the location captured here is less André’s grim little room than his mind, as he tries to ward off existential despair — a battle that lets Delisle transmute tedium into compelling suspense. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Beyond getting exasperated by the tedium of the task, you risk damaging the replacement buds at the base of each leaf. Winter-battered plants may look dead — but don’t give up on them yet 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Instead of the tedium of corporate culture, this mockumentary-style show focuses on life in a small, uneventful English village. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘I May Destroy You’ and ‘This Country’ 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z The excitement of backstabbing his way to the highest office in the land has been replaced by the tedium of domestic governance and the impossibility of peacekeeping in the Middle East. It’s Time for “House of Cards” to Come Crashing Down 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z The soup, jolted out of the tedium of luncheon food with a spike of hot sauce, chills in the fridge right next to the pickles. It’s Time to Admit That Iceberg Is a Superior Lettuce 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z It is a type of painful tedium, a rerun of sorts—as opposed to being a bug or outlier or aberration—in American life and culture. A modern day lynching: Why I will not watch the video of Alton Sterling being killed by Baton Rouge police 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z There isn’t much funny about the tedium and death toll of this pandemic, so they mine levity from profane harebrained invention. South Park pandemic special: a biting and surprisingly affecting satire 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Like that work, “Alice” can be more impressive in excerpt than in its entirety, with the score eventually blanching into tedium as the inventive energy of its early scenes wears off. Review: ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ by Unsuk Chin, Told With Restraint 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z It may not have been the first mockumentary or sitcom without a laughter track, but who could not love a show which featured staplers being put in jelly to relieve the existential tedium? The Office ? still doing the business 2011-07-08T10:12:30Z Lineker points out that the accusations of tedium are at odds with the basic tone and tempo. World Cup 2014: why Gary Lineker is a man of two halves 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z This may be only natural for a company that prizes the way banality throws into relief the remarkable, but tedium is tedium. Gob Squad jesters reel in REDCAT audience with mixed results 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z It's halfway between Oasis's brand of high/fly/sky banal uplift and Coldplay's soaring tedium. New band of the day: Kodaline (No 1,365) 2012-10-04T16:42:12Z “It is how we, despite our portions of sorrow, tedium and disaster, persist in finding meaning in ours.” 5 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z I’ve seen reviews that are grateful for how the writer evokes the tedium of domestic life and the “depredations” of pregnancy on the body. One Irish Poet Looks Back Three Centuries to Find Obsession and Inspiration in Another 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Both chart the sometimes imperceptible but essential steps of an artist’s development: the tedium of foundational technique, the life-changing generosity of a mentor, the wistfulness of relationships quietly lost along the way. ‘The Violin Conspiracy’ Is a Musical Thriller With Some Unexpected Notes 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z But if you’re in a constant state of tedium, how about a change? Social Q?s: Your Father?s Keeper 2010-06-17T22:36:00Z I started focusing on the idea of tedium, because the song’s self-referential; it wants to be boring. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z Episodic and pleasantly unhurried, the movie follows the ebb and flow of a regular workday while skipping the tedium. Review: In ‘Support the Girls,’ Sisterhood Is Funny, Essential and Sweet 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z And what they experience as tedium is, for us, a rare and peculiar form of delight. Movie Review: ‘Prince Avalanche’ Features Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch 2013-08-08T18:12:49Z Stezaker swiftly grasped that the projected image might be used to make art, thus obviating the tedium of freehand drawing. Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011-01-29T00:06:00Z A tedium, verging on desolation, infuses this particular corner of provincial life. | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z Maybe those conversations seldom veer into awkwardness or tedium. Calling out of the blue: Why would you do this to someone you love? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z That leads, he said, to trouble and tedium when a director drones on with a long barrage of suggestions, speaking for so long that he inevitably begins to contradict himself. Paul Gross Joins Kim Cattrall in ?Private Lives? 2011-11-04T03:30:21Z Both days were dreary and overcast, which probably contributed to the sense of tedium. The best way to witness Alaska’s stunning seascapes? Take a cruise along the Inner Passage 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z He's a shuffling, ambitionless shell of a man, ground down by the unstoppable tedium of everyday life to the point where he can barely even rouse the energy to think for himself. Please release me: Why getting dumped is a film hero's best hope 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z As local kids laugh and play and hot dogs sizzle on the grill, the Yoos appear to have settled into the affection and occasional tedium of a happy marriage. 'May December' is a slippery, superbly acted tour de force 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Clair Cline, a woodworker, used wood scavenged with the help of fellow prisoners to assemble the violin as a way of fighting the tedium of internment. Grim yet hopeful addition to National WWII Museum addresses the conflict’s world-shaping legacy 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z ‘Fight Club,’ alternating between sheer tedium and churning violence, has a bigger misguided idea at its core. David Fincher ‘not responsible’ for incels co-opting 'Fight Club': 'We didn’t make it for them' 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Kids accustomed to immediate results and instant gratification must grapple with the tedium and rewards of slower processes; even the best math and chemistry students don’t automatically bake a bread that rises. To prepare kids for the future, bring back shop and home ec | Pamela Paul 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Small talk breaks out to ease the tedium of the endless hungry hours. Commentary: Annie Baker chases nexus of pain and desire in hypnotic observational odyssey, ‘Infinite Life’ 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z The tedium of living rough is getting to him. From a one-way flight to sleeping in a parking lot: Diary of a California dream gone sour 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z "I think for me the biggest thing generative art can solve is tedium," he said. AI: Digital artist's work copied more times than Picasso 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z It's where she discovered her talent as a dancer, and the power it wielded over men looking to escape their own insecurities or the tedium and melancholia of life. The remarkable story of a fiery Indian courtesan 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Scientific presentations, musical concerts and a visit from Sir David Attenborough and his documentary film crew, distracted me from the tedium of an imageless landscape. Astrophysics and stale beer: What life is like working at the South Pole 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Virtual connection opened up so many possibilities — and then our human tendency toward tedium set in. Advice | Ask Amy: I’m disappointed that interest in family Zoom calls is waning 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Humankind, at last unshackled from the overindulged tedium of the modern world, unburdened by factual overload, could sit back and reap the bounty of being able once again to think. Opinion | What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z He didn’t discuss his past in detail, or wallow in the tedium of a come-up story, so I piece together a train ride here, a bad contract there. Piecing together the story of my father, the Black cowboy-musician Jimmy Holiday 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z His spark for the character was tedium, he recounted. Barry Humphries, performer who embodied Dame Edna, dies at 89 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z This particular creation of the cinema breaks all precedent for length, yet such is its spectacular quality and so beautiful are its musical numbers that there is no sense of tedium. How to watch every Best Picture winner from 1930 through 1939 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Miller’s new post, lieutenant governor, has long been relegated to the tedium of diplomacy: attending ribbon cuttings, filling in at events the boss can’t make. Maryland Lt. Gov.-elect Aruna Miller brings expansive vision of the job 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z You soon realize the novel is the origin story of an IRS agent who has found something sacred in the tedium of his work. A survey of McNally Editions, the boutique publisher of out-of-print gems 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z He enjoyed the tedium of cataloging and mapping every inch of a cave as much as he reveled in pushing through to the next unknown. Marion Smith, the World’s Most Prolific Cave Explorer, Dies at 80 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Refreshingly, the drama refuses to gloss over the tedium of depression and anxiety, zoning in on the panic attacks, insomnia and self-doubt that are often part of these conditions. Tell Me Everything: The darkly comic drama about teenage depression 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Although the scenes in Bournemouth are relatively short, they reveal Williams’ mournful state of mind, as well as his ill-fated attempt to break free from the tedium of the city. How seaside settings evoke turmoil, melancholy and tension 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z It sweats in the Spanish heat, throbs with tedium, mutters with the low-level suffering of long-term inpatients. Review | When John Singer Sargent went to Spain, it unleashed his best art 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z For a while there is the tedium of waiting, but also the consolations of camaraderie. Review: War is hell (again) in Netflix's new adaptation of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z It saves a remarkable amount of time and tedium. Make this Pumpkin Tiramisu Roll from Seattle author’s ‘Sheet Pan Sweets’ 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z It’s a fascinating confluence of talent and tedium; it’s also a story in which tedium — the day-after-day frustration of a stalled, thwarted existence — may well be the point. Review: Claire Denis' erotic thriller 'Stars at Noon' emits the sweat smell of sexcess 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Filmed in dismal interiors in the director’s native Poland, the psychiatric hospital scenes are suitably grim, if too compressed to convey the anguish and tedium of the twins’ 11-year incarceration. Review | ‘The Silent Twins’ is a strange but true story of sibling connection 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z In its mix of virtuosity and stubbornness, its passages of tedium and its intermittently dazzling passages of inspiration, “Bardo” at least feels like an honest act of self-reckoning. From Spielberg to Iñárritu: Evaluating the season's many styles of personal filmmaking 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Now comes the part when the outrageous zaniness of college football games — you know, sports — tries to outpace the droning chatter about mergers and acquisitions and realignment and business, business, business — you know, tedium. Analysis | Forget the chatter about college football business and focus on the games 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Asking Alexa to read the same menu is an exercise in tedium. Amazon’s Alexa apps are hard to find. Perhaps ads will help 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Her husband shared her view of volcanoes as superior company, a refuge from the tedium of human concerns, but he also possessed a reckless streak that eluded even her. Review: As both a doc about volcanoes and a scientists' romance, 'Fire of Love' kicks ash 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z The production, scrupulously directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos, forces us to return to this period of our lives when tedium and fury were interchangeable and every social mishap was a melodrama of epic proportions. Review: 'The Beautiful People' is an uncomfortable look at combustible male rage 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Rather, it wanted to be obdurately local, fixing the problems created by the commercial temper of Jakarta’s art scene: the pressures to sell work, the tedium of the galleries, the deference toward Western trends. A Radical Collective Takes Over One of the World’s Biggest Art Shows 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The pleasurable late-summer idyll of the first half, disrupted by occasional ripples of tension and jealousy, gives way to a curious mix of chaos and tedium. Review: Unfolding in reverse, 'The Tsugua Diaries' might be 2022's most glorious summer movie 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The 24/7 news cycle is filled with tedium and minutiae elevated as crises or "breaking news," with little effort to provide the information, context and framework needed to understand the fascist calamity. After Buffalo, Trump threatens "civil war": Mainstream media refuses to connect the dots 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z To do something — anything, really — on a daily basis is to court tedium. Dig into color with your garden, and discover a deeper connection 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z Labor relations in baseball is a mix of banter and bluster, tenacity and tedium, revising and resisting. MLB deal took 11 months of bargaining, most moves at end 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z But when those hours stretch into tedium while the pitchers rotate on and off the mound and the other players stand idle on the field, the fun fades fast. No joy in Mudville 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Like millions of Americans, I climbed on the pandemic puppy bandwagon, having been persuaded that a pooch would improve our home life, serving as a furry distraction from the tedium. A pandemic puppy changed the way I see (and hear and smell) my world 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z After 75 minutes of caution — even tedium — the quality and pressure from six-time European champion Liverpool eventually led to a 2-0 win over Inter Milan in the Champions League round of 16 on Wednesday. Firmino, Salah give Liverpool 2-0 win at Inter Milan in CL 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The Godfrey-Faussett family so dreaded the tedium of these royal visits that they would draw lots to see who had to greet him. Review | George V, the proudly ‘ordinary’ king who rebranded the British monarchy 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z You better attend to the special teams, too, in all of their role-playing particularities and tedium, or you will get rolled. Perspective | At snowy Lambeau Field, the heavyweight 49ers delivered an old-school lesson 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Video projections that sometimes seem like a playful version of FaceTime enliven the visual tedium, but I felt a great sense of relief every time we returned to Margaret’s bright yellow kitchen. Review: A drag queen is born: 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' arrives at the Ahmanson 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z For many parents and teachers, the pandemic has become a slog of anxiety over the risk of infection, child care crises, the tedium of school-through-a-screen and, most of all, chronic instability. As More Teachers’ Unions Push for Remote Schooling, Parents Worry. So Do Democrats. 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z Pandemic tedium was unbroken by streaming TV and movies, and forget about online grocery and restaurant delivery orders. Vast numbers of people in Washington are shut out of the digital world; will massive government funding solve the problem? 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z The team have gone from the kings of tedium to become an attacking threat, but they do not have a striker suitably prolific to make the difference in the box. Crystal Palace v Everton: Premier League – live! 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z Well, there’s no tedium like that of accurate predictions. Analysis | Turns out there was no need to fuss over the College Football Playoff selections 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z She was routinely equated with other Silicon Valley figures— most notably her hero, Apple CEO Steve Jobs — who had dropped out because their purported genius could not be contained by the tedium of traditional education. Ghislaine Maxwell's and Elizabeth Holmes' fake feminist defenses are an insult to #MeToo 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Johnny’s tentative dip into family life artfully captures the tedium, terror and confounding ecstasy of parenthood, but it more eloquently conveys the pain and discovery involved in simply trying to do one’s best. Review | Joaquin Phoenix in ‘C’mon C’mon’ is light-years away from ‘The Joker’: unforced, natural, yet still great 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z This massively reduces the tedium of building a team and makes things like evolving a Magikarp into a less frustrating experience. Nintendo’s latest Pokémon remakes are perfectly fine versions of great games 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z N.F.L. games run only slightly shorter than awards ceremonies, and sometimes you look outside at a nice autumn Sunday and wonder why you are inside watching four hours of tedium. Do We Really Want Nonstop Action From Football? 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Photo by Alice Newcome-Beill / The Verge PC Building Simulator keeps most of the fun parts of this hobby front and center, while cleverly avoiding some of the frustrations and occasional tedium. PC Building Simulator is free on the Epic Games Store 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Despite the tedium, Dr. Rosendorff’s testimony was critical to the prosecution’s case. Key takeaways from the fifth week of the Elizabeth Holmes trial. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z The tedium of working through the steps to exit the time loop, with all of the repetitive steps it entails, naturally generates an oppressive environment. Review | ‘Twelve Minutes’: Grueling repetition with an interesting payoff 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z It keeps getting uttered out loud by players and coaches even in a sport languishing in the boredom of boardrooms and the tedium of mergers and acquisitions. Iowa State, amid all the talk about love in football, becomes a love epicenter 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z As they waited patiently for their turn to order, many also acknowledged that the trip to the truck was a break from the tedium. How one New Orleans neighborhood weathers nights without power: An ice cream truck and shared charging stations 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Greenfield escaped the tedium of her job at the patent office with her writing. Eloise Greenfield, author whose picture books uplifted Black children, dies at 92 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z SAN JOSE, Calif. — The fifth week of the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos, offered only brief moments of drama amid long stretches of technical tedium. Key takeaways from the fifth week of the Elizabeth Holmes trial. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic last year, the "tedium" of lockdown provided an opportunity to root through his treasures "one quiet afternoon with a few beers". How a football fan's collection of memorabilia is helping others 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z But historical literature proves that even our counterparts in ancient times had the burden of tedium to bear. Boredom’s link to mental illnesses, brain injuries and dysfunctional behaviors 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Penrose wondered, “Who will be around then to be bored by this apparent overpowering eventual tedium?” Can Science Survive the Death of the Universe? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z From the drama of Baku to what is normally the tedium of Paul Ricard, which hosts the French Grand Prix in two weeks' time. Perez wins after Verstappen crash 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z This year had been characterized by unending tedium, yes, but also of growth and transformation for many. High school students want to forget 2020-21. Yearbook editors show them why they shouldn’t 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z The job pays about $36,000 a year and involves considerable tedium as the procedural conductor of the Senate, a task Fairfax handles with verve and efficiency. Justin Fairfax’s bid for governor has observers asking: Why? 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z The trip from his new apartment in Glassell Park to his post office box in Hollywood may have been mostly tedium. A formerly homeless artist made a gift to Los Angeles. What happened next was a surprise 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z While Mr. Letizia, listed as Juror No. 4 in court records, complained about the tedium of being a juror on his podcast, he did not reveal details of the case. ‘Nobody Wants to Be There, Dude’: How a Juror’s Podcast Led to an Appeal 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z There is nothing to celebrate about Nadiri giving birth to a baby born into the tedium and misery of lifelong confinement. Woodland Park Zoo: Wild is ‘gold standard of conservation’ 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z The online communities offered a sense of belonging and intimacy in a pandemic era of mind-numbing tedium, anxiety and solitude, they said. Lonely, angry, eager to make history: Online mobs are likely to remain a dangerous reality 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z Doug Heye, a former Republican National Committee spokesman who used to work for Burr, questioned whether Trump was willing to endure the tussle and tedium of running or serving. Lara Trump for North Carolina Senate Seat? Trump’s Trial Is Renewing Talk. 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Cooped-up sailors who felt the same way on long ocean journeys broke up the tedium with work songs called sea shanties. Sea shanties are having a moment amid isolation of pandemic 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z A towering man, he had a foghorn laugh that cut through the tedium and tension of high-pressure athletics. ‘I Let You Down’: Klete Keller’s Path From Olympics to Capitol Riot 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z The images were plain video wallpaper; officials milled about in the staid setting we associate with long speeches and C-SPAN marathons and, frankly, tedium. The Attack on the Capitol Was Even Worse Than It Looked 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z If the problem persists in safe mode — or if you don’t want to go through the tedium of troubleshooting — it’s time to back up your data and start from scratch. Why does laptop lock up and its fan start running at full-bore when left unattended? 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z Does college football keep drifting toward a top-heavy tedium that threatens to threaten the sport, or is that question too alarmist? Ohio State’s win over Indiana showed the predictability of college football until it didn’t 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z She helped eight teams to the playoffs while handling the inky tedium of player contracts, arbitration hearings and valuations, putting “dollar signs on the muscle,” to employ an old expression. Perspective | Kim Ng’s hire doesn’t solve gender inequity, but it takes ‘unprecedented’ to ‘possible’ 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z The shock subsided quickly, replaced by the tedium and exasperation that accompany the slog toward recovery. After 2 Hurricanes, Lake Charles Fears Its Cries for Help Have Gone Unheard 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z A festive atmosphere dominated at times, despite the tedium and the heat. Long lines mark the first day of early voting in Georgia as voters flock to the polls 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z If you think statistics and government sounds like twice the tedium for half the price, you would be entirely wrong. Democracy suffers when government statistics fail 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z She had begun by asking out loud the idle questions students ask themselves amid the tedium of studying for another algebra exam. Do Viral Videos Really Tell You Anything About Today’s Teens? 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The stage directions disrupt the comfortable tedium with an uncanny ping: “Suddenly a distant sound is heard, as if from the sky, like the sound of a snapped string mournfully dying away.” Review: Playwright Richard Nelson's pandemic Zoom trilogy comes to a whispering end 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z He likely hadn’t imagined spending this year’s trade deadline confronting such tedium. Joe Maddon offers honest assessment of Angels: 'We need to do some work' 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Before that, tedium was an expected part of life. Opinion | Is the Lockdown Making You Depressed, or Are You Just Bored? 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Barbakow and Siara have effectively fashioned their Palm Springs purgatory into a metaphor for a young relationship, where everything seems wonderfully strange and new until doubt and tedium inevitably set in. Review: With perfectly matched stars, 'Palm Springs' finds the crazy joy in repetition 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Rebecca Alter at Vulture calls it “a perfect metaphor for the tedium of muddling through a repetitive, trapped life in quarantine, day by day.” Streaming this week: Babysitters’ Club and The Old Guard on Netflix, Palm Springs on Hulu 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z By the time the main siege begins and the movie most springs to life, there is already a sense of monotony and tedium that is difficult to get past. Review: 'The Outpost' is a visceral depiction of combat but little else 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z T.O.F.S. also offer the opportunity to engulf several types of sandwich in one sitting, rather than just the tedium of one. How to make super-tasty, adorably tiny open-faced sandwiches — with recipes from Seattle’s La Dive 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z My boys don’t roll their eyes when I bring those kids up but I can feel something almost worse: a kind of tedium with the constancy of catastrophe. ‘A Lot of Bad News Out There’: Parenting in a Pandemic 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Medvedeva said her project tries to ensure that the animals aren’t adopted just as a temporary salve to the tedium and loneliness of lockdown. Amid Moscow lockdown, some dogs find new homes and friends 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Well into our second week of underemployed tedium, the truth dawned on us: We need the Peeps now more than ever! Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This statue did not desperately need a mask 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Instead of taking up arms, the public is being asked to undergo the tedium and privations of self-isolation and social distancing to prevent its spread. Why do we talk about 'fighting' illness? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s a tedium of Zoom video conference calls and celebrities singing “Imagine.” Disaster movies and disaster rations: A coronavirus food and film pairing 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z That’s when you get the festival that justifies the tedium of the group stage, the greatest football ever played, the glorious pay-off for the grotesque iniquities of the game’s financial structure. Champions League elite have got fat on easy dominance and quality has suffered | Jonathan Wilson 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z The tedium is incalculably worse now than in the regular season, players said, because the games are during the day, their schedules are inconsistent and nothing counts. The Nationals wage war on spring training monotony with hockey, cooking and polar plunges 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Yet, in imagining a life at sea, most people seem less inclined to think of tedium than terror. What four years at sea taught me about our relationship to the ocean 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z The Premier League’s resident prince of darkness slouched back in his seat sullenly, as though frustrated by the lack of tedium. Chaos replaces control at José Mourinho's anarchic Tottenham 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z At the very least, we trust an indulgent new purchase to spark some fleeting satisfaction before fading into the tedium of all our other stuff. Too nice for the likes of us: why buying fancy stuff makes us miserable 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The tedium and drama of the life of a musician on the road has been the stuff of countless songs, albums, documentaries and fiction features. Annie Clark, St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein all meet at 'The Nowhere Inn' 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Few minds appeared to be changed, and many senators all but lashed to their seats for the trial described it as tedium. Democrats speak to history with exhaustive impeachment case 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z This occasions much meta-nonsense from Fletcher about the joys of 35-millimeter celluloid and the alleged tedium of Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation,” a jab that would be funnier if this movie itself were better. Review: Guy Ritchie is back, though not better than ever, with 'The Gentlemen' 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z When they went on long runs together, Derkacz mentioned the tedium of scanning the thousands of pages. How a mid-20th-century hunting guide may fill the gaps on climate change in Maine 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z It’s like a performance art study in tedium. Five things Ed Sheeran has ruined (aside from music): the decade in lists 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z The barista class had provided a respite to the tedium of jail time, but nothing would change the fact that they weren’t free. The Rikers Coffee Academy 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z “Cats,” onscreen as well as onstage, is shot through with tedium. Commentary: The movie is a wreck, the musical is a joke. Why, then, will we always have 'Cats'? 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z So everyone waited, with more tedium than suspense. Impeachment Day in Washington: History Emerges From the Routine Chaos 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z What they offer is an escape from tedium — a reason to take joy in food beyond the baseline requirements of existence. How Spices Have Made, and Unmade, Empires 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z One Democratic lawmaker described the practice sessions as a great deal of tedium punctuated by five minutes of fire. Behind the Scenes of Impeachment: Crammed Offices, Late Nights, Cold Pizza 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z The initial spark for Anywhere But Westminster was the headache-inducing tedium of covering party conferences. We spent 10 years talking to people. Here's what it taught us about Britain 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Yet the adrenaline peaks of performing, followed by long troughs of tedium, were akin to a drug addiction, says Payne. Liam Payne on life after One Direction: ‘It was touch and go. I was slowly losing the plot’ 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Artistically, the photographs in “The Capes of California” are just more of the same shallow tedium. Review: LACMA and Hauser & Wirth double down on problematic photography shows 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z “There’s a tedium to it,” he explained later. Middle school band director turns novice musicians into pros 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z And several companies are aiming to automate the biology lab, to reduce the tedium of some tasks and to improve the reliability of medical testing. Digital health 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z The engineers had been hired at two or three times my salary, and their privileged position in the industry hierarchy should have exempted them from such tedium. Four Years in Startups 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The Day-Kelly conversation, as Day recollected it to reporters on Monday in Ohio, provided the latest sense of the terrible tedium in which these coaches do dwell. Ohio State vs. Cincinnati marks a crossroads, with a connection in New Hampshire 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z I yearn for intellectual sustenance on vacation but want, of course, to avoid tedium or boredom. Opinion | The perfect vacation requires the right book 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z In moments of tedium, he would read and reread labels from packaged food they had been given. ‘No one just goes hiking in Afghanistan’: American woman gave birth as a Taliban hostage. Now she seeks to end her mystery. 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Walter Mitty develops photos for a magazine but escapes the tedium through heroic daydreams. Here are the feature and TV films airing the week of Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Humans will be freed of the tedium of driving, he told Wall Street last year. Tesla has a huge incentive to deploy self-driving tech. But is the world ready? 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z So on behalf of all math teachers, please excuse us for drilling your younger selves on this tedium. The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Obliterating flaws, flattening tedium, idealising the quotidian with sudden contrasts? How to eat in a heatwave 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z It wasn’t that the search for his next basketball executive had stalled into tedium — as many Wizards fans had suspected after one month passed into another without a hire. Ted Leonsis reveals new structure for Wizards basketball operations, a unique model for an NBA team 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Partly a wry parody of found-footage horror films, and partly a straightforward supernatural thriller rooted in North African folklore, writer-director Jérôme Cohen-Olivar’s “The 16th Episode” shows flashes of wild inspiration between stretches of tedium. Reviews: Gary Oldman in ‘Killers Anonymous’; plus ‘The 16th Episode’ and more 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z But some said the automated tedium is getting to them. As Walmart turns to robots, it’s the human workers who feel like machines 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Rather, they’re racing to fill customer orders, their progress reflected in a video game format that is part of an experiment by the e-commerce giant to help reduce the tedium of its physically demanding jobs. ‘MissionRacer’: How Amazon turned the tedium of warehouse work into a game 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z A layer of gamification can only go so far to relieve that kind of tedium. Amazon turns warehouse tasks into video games to make work ‘fun’ 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z He knows how to make audiences uncomfortable — first with tedium, then with terror. Reviews: Late-breaking terror in ‘Body at Brighton Rock,’ ‘I Trapped the Devil’ and more movies 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z And indeed, with every new series, Wainwright is inevitably, to the point of tedium, credited with bringing “a new sort of woman” to television. Sally Wainwright and the not so secret life of a television revolutionary. In Yorkshire. With a female gaze. 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z Simulators are a popular genre in PC games, with titles like “Construction Simulator,” “Farming Simulator” and “American Truck Simulator” converting the tedium of a job into a form of entertainment. A new recruitment tool for construction: the joystick 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z “Why can’t you treat these movies with the seriousness they deserve?” — are certainly alike in their utter tedium. Review: 'Shazam!' gives the overworked superhero genre a fun, irreverent lift 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z They all do good work, but can’t save Chen from his own parlor games, which start off as mildly diverting but ultimately nosedive into vacuous tedium. ‘Caught’ at Intiman Theatre gets too caught up trying to pull rugs out from under its audience 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Maybe, but if feeling this fabulously bloody brilliant is boring, then long reign tedium. I did dry February as well as January – and waved goodbye to hangxiety | Charlotte Church 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z “The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.” Opinion | The Quotable Russell Baker 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Zwift sells itself to cyclists as a way to reduce the tedium of training indoors — a necessary evil when it’s too rainy, dark or dangerous to hit the tarmac. Zwift’s new esports league is like pro cycling. Only without crashes. Or turning 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z But a couple of things stuck out amidst the tedium and the almost overwhelming volume of new information. New rules answer some questions on European Tour while raising a few new ones - Golf Digest 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z I snuggled him even though your email was calling, and some part of me wanted to pull away from the tedium of bedtime and reply. Opinion | Why I Didn’t Answer Your Email 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z As the impact of the shutdown ripples across the region, some DC businesses are offering discounts or assistance to ease the financial burden – and tedium – of a prolonged period without work. 'It's ruining people's lives': federal workers count cost of shutdown 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z The relative tedium of the shutdown has left the White House press corps to report on issues such as whether Mr. Trump was truly in the Oval Office at 10:37 a.m. Donald Trump fumes over government shutdown standoff from Oval Office 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z She’s unsparing about the constraints and the tedium of women’s lives, for instance, but also about the women who are leading them. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z This does not promise the removal of suffering or tedium from life. Opinion | A Christmas message: Fear not 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z The progression from Parris Island to Geiger to the Palms signalled, on the face of it, a slow return from barbaric intrigue to the tedium of civilisation. 'A torrent of ghastly revelations': what military service taught me about America 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z You could drop in and out and come in at the end without losing the plot, avoiding potential tedium and gaining extra time for crafting or journaling, say. Review: Netflix's supernatural sea thriller ‘Tidelands’ is B-picture TV with random acts of nudity 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Much like everyone else, they tweeted about their life in Sunderland - going to the theatre, the tedium of chores, and acknowledging life's little achievements. 'I don't want everything to be about Down's' 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z And the central problem that the movie posed — how do you make involving cinema out of the door-to-door, day-by-day tedium of investigative reporting? — has rarely been solved to such gripping, enduring effect. From 'The Princess Bride' to 'All the President's Men,' William Goldman had a storytelling style all his own 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Curse the tedium and venality of your public servants if you want, but congressional hearings literally led to an arrest in an alleged criminal coverup. Perspective | Congress forced scrutiny of USA Gymnastics. The USOC should be next. 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The way people spoke, the colloquialisms and the amazing sense of oppressive Sunday tedium.” Mark Gatiss: ‘The League of Gentlemen was a premonition of Brexit’ 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Would he have minded its undeniable lapses into tedium? Review: All Welles breaks loose in the corrosive, long-awaited 'The Other Side of the Wind' - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Mid90s is often laugh-out-loud and, at other times, harrowing and hard to watch, but it nails the seductive tedium of boys hanging out. Jonah Hill Makes Directing Look Easy 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Unimportant, yet rising to the dignity of a fate that “must be studied”—that is the shadowy destiny of Solstad’s men, the mystery that keeps the reader engrossed, even when the books risk tedium. Marginal Men Take Center Stage in the Novels of Dag Solstad 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Kerry evokes the tedium, thrill and fear of Swift boat service, along with the anguish of losing close friends in an unwinnable war. Review | John Kerry’s elite journey from Vietnam to presidential bid to secretary of state 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z The strikingly futuristic set design and the question of what’s really going on here mitigate the tedium of watching actors talk into screens — but only a little. Review: Sci-fi thriller ‘Domain' is a labored critique of social media - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z At either end of the spectrum, the children themselves face tedium, a lack of freedom and profound uncertainty, especially when their 18th birthday approaches. Opinion | Coming of Age in American Detention 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z It might be tedious, but the flip side of tedium is constancy. Savoring the school lunch — and the connection of the routine 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z And tedium, in Solstad’s work, achieves a kind of hallucinatory power. Marginal Men Take Center Stage in the Novels of Dag Solstad 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z As tedium started to set in, the fans broke into an impromptu Eight Clap. As today's struggles mount for UCLA, will tomorrow ever come? 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z The solution: barges with itineraries that let sporty types exert themselves enough to fend off tedium. European Barge Cruises That Are Anything But Boring 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Passing through in the 1850s, the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted lamented the tedium of the region’s “immense moist plain.” How the Trump administration went easy on small-town police abuses 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z It also involved a worker for the DMV — a favorite public punching bag, with few equals other than the IRS, for people complaining about government bureaucracy, tedium and red tape. Why we love stories of people sleeping on the job | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Mitigating the tedium of repetition is the fact that players are able to gain permanent upgrades that boost their chances for more accomplished runs and open up new pathways for traversal. Review | ‘Dead Cells’ is a fun way to spend some of your midsummer leisure time 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z But once that threshold is passed, with the requisite rush of adrenaline, you are left with the tedium, raggedness and obscurity that is exhibition football, as monotony quickly sets in. Seahawks open preseason as a mystery that will take some time to solve 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z This story also involved a worker for the DMV — a favorite public punching bag, with few equals other than the Internal Revenue Service, for people complaining about government bureaucracy, tedium and red tape. Analysis | Why we love stories about workers who sleep on the job 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z It is also because of the daunting prospect of tedium — of being forced against one’s will to do nothing, and of doing nothing ordinarily considered to be useful. Perspective | Vacation seems like it frees us from work. That's what work wants us to think. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Las Vegas police released 16 more video files Wednesday showing agony, uncertainty, tedium and courage during and after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. More police body cam video shows aftermath of Vegas shooting 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Las Vegas police released 16 more video files Wednesday showing agony, uncertainty, tedium and courage during and after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. More police body cam video shows aftermath of Vegas shooting 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z What was lacking in O’Connor’s life—and in her art—was the spontaneous experience of intimate love, with its attendant joys and tedium and security. Flannery O’Connor’s Revelatory Honesty 2001-01-22T05:00:00Z Tucker frames the film with shots of her unenthusiastic subject parked on a purple velvet armchair and complaining about the tedium of talking about her life. ‘Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist’ more interested in Vivenne Westwood as punk and icon than activist 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The camaraderie of training for the games, Hunter said, helped break the tedium of his arduous recovery. Man wins medals in Wounded Warrior games after cancer battle 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Just because shootouts are exciting is not enough reason to ignore the two hours of tedium preceding it that often occurs.” World Cup 2018: Russia face Croatia in quarters, plus build-up to Brazil – live! 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z It was in the dignified kitchens of the Hyde Park campus where I learned the scope – as well as tedium and toil – that is the business of food. A deceptively straightforward recipe for coconut layer cake in "Caribbean Flavors for Every Season" 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z They might be accustomed to tedium, but many aren’t used to a major component of campaigning: asking people for money. How a volcano scientist set out to change American politics 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Set at an all-night dance party, where it kicks off with one of the most mesmerizingly choreographed performance sequences I’ve ever seen, it gripped me for a good half-hour before descending into party-from-hell tedium. Film critics look at the highs and lows of Cannes 2018, a festival notable for what happened both on- and off-screen 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “I wanted to capture the tedium of being open from 7 a.m. to midnight, 365 days a year,” he said. The Ballad of a Neighborhood Deli 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z Procedural content generation doesn’t just save designers time and save Mario from tedium. Bored with your video game? Artificial intelligence could create new levels on the fly 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z For some Duanzi fans, the app doesn’t just provide an escape from the tedium of daily life but a sense of belonging. No joke: have China's censors gone too far with ban on humour app? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z His Facebook followers already know this, because he does Facebook Live streams of much of his day, recounting all manner of tedium. Opinion | Watch Out, Ted Cruz. Beto is Coming. 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z But the truer story of my drinking is really a story about tedium, about claustrophobia and repetition. Does Recovery Kill Great Writing? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z The arrival of Sanders, in town for a rally in Phoenix, broke the tedium of an otherwise sleepy morning. Bernie Sanders visits Dodgers, hangs with Yasiel Puig, decries departure from Brooklyn 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z For how long more can the so-called greatest league in the world sustain such levels of tedium before fans begin to lose interest? Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z From a grunt’s perspective, the war is a vast stretch of tedium, interrupted by sudden terror and stunning loss. ‘Eat the Apple’: a Marine’s jarring eyes-on-the-ground view of war 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z The impetus for Monday’s announcement was the tedium of unlimited meetings between the pitcher and catcher, which stifle the action. M.L.B. Puts a Limit on Mound Visits Per Game 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z The payoff to the hero's journey is fairly clever, though not exactly original, and certainly not worth the tedium along the way. Vintage cheesiness of 'Wastelander' not worth the slog 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z It didn’t qualify as a life-changing road fork, but it did rid a Friday afternoon of any possible tedium. Tiger Woods makes late push, will play the weekend at Torrey Pines 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z But what’s also evident is how the Patriots love to toil, what a taste for tedium they have. Perspective | The secret of the Patriots’ success can’t be found in coconut water or goji berries 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Streets are clean and apartments comfortable, but young residents complain about the tedium of living and working alongside a small number of people in an isolated settlement surrounded by wilderness. China’s Ambitious New ‘Port’: Landlocked Kazakhstan 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z An angel – a sort of heavenly management consultant, moving up the hierarchy – found Bailey contemplating suicide, such was the tedium of life in Bedford Falls. All I want for Christmas is a film that doesn’t preach capitalism | Tanya Gold 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z There’s just such a high ratio of tedium to fun. Fallout, Doom, and Skyrim show the limits of blockbuster games in VR 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z As opposed to the overflow of emotion that is threatening to drown Michael, these young men are bored beyond tears by the infinite tedium of soldiering. 'Foxtrot' is Israel's hottest export of the year and lives up to the hype 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z For years, German politics were both mocked and admired for being too uneventful to the point of tedium. Echoes of the Weimar Republic as German politicians lose knack of coalition-building 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z A cloud of tedium hangs over any formal gathering that ventures to discuss the thing. Putin’s Russia can’t celebrate its revolutionary past. It has to smother it | Catherine Merridale 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z A FEW years ago, the news about the euro-zone economy was uniformly bad to the point of tedium. As the global economy picks up, inflation is oddly quiescent 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Sometimes it was easier to flat-out delete accounts than it was to go through the tedium of changing often hard-to-wrangle privacy settings, setting a new password, verifying it and setting up outside authentication options. Zoë Quinn: What Happened After GamerGate Hacked Me 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z In the past, as the tedium of the six-month regular season set in, his concentration would waver. Yasiel Puig's return to good graces is sealed with a kiss 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z He also displayed his mastery of a centuries-old text that combines the tedium of legal fine print with the complexity of the federal tax code: The Rules of Golf. How Jordan Spieth Saved the Open by Mastering an Obscure Golf Rule 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z He seems to have a singular inner motor that responds to remorseless challenge and finds tedium in depressurized situations. Win, vacation, shoot 65 at British Open. It almost makes you hate Koepka and Spieth. 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z But its tedium is relieved by magical bird life. Colombia’s future involves fewer terrorists and more ecotourists 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Hedgepeth said she thought her daughter would thank her later for delivering her from the unrelenting tedium of pool training. Even With Olympic Roots, Dakota Luther Forges Her Own Path to Worlds 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Pauses and longueurs can be effective, particularly in a setting where a measure of tedium comes with the wide-open terrain, but the deliberation of the pacing is not warranted by the film’s thin, circuitous story. 'The Bad Batch' reveals a muddled but visually striking desert dystopia 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The elite bask in an airborne version of Panem, enjoying over-the-top frivolities distant from the tedium of normal life, while the masses scrap over scant resources, dreaming of revolution. Paying a Price for 8 Days of Flying in America 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z But it is hobbled by a tiresome load of exposition, spurts of tedium, some near-impenetrable accents and caricatures of those at the bottom of the class heap Wimsey strides atop. Review: Newlywed sleuths can’t get a break in ‘Busman’s Honeymoon’ 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z In fact, all three writers are practicing variant forms of magic realism, which, for each of them, is, among other things, a means of reporting on political horror without inducing tedium. Arundhati Roy Returns to Fiction, in Fury 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z You’d expect the author to knock some sense into her about worker productivity and diaper tedium. Opinion | So which is it? Women want to be free of kids and unpredictable husbands, or not? 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Luckily, there is now a rich, ever-growing field of podcasts to distract you from the tedium. Stuck in Memorial Day Traffic? Here Are 15 Podcasts to Distract You 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z While “Twin Peaks” is a deliberately inscrutable ode to film noir and rustic Americana, toeing the tightrope between camp and beguiling mystery, “Lost Falls” is often inscrutable to the point of tedium. Review: ‘Lost Falls’ is a little David Lynch, a lot Cafe Nordo 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z While Seager idled, his Dodgers teammates laughed about his need to engage in the tedium of spring training. Freeway Series: Corey Seager collects two hits in Dodgers' 4-4 tie with the Angels 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z A neighbor in her Maine hometown approached Gunst years back to suggest that a winter soup-swap party would ease the tedium. Soup swaps are a great way to trade recipes and discover comfort and community 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z “Triplicate” is more of a historical document than a contemporary recording, and absent a curiosity about songwriting of this era, some tedium is inevitable. Review: Bob Dylan triples down on standards 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The story of US interest rates this decade is simple to the point of tedium. The Guardian view on US rate rises: a sterling challenge | Editorial 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z The 89th annual Academy Awards brought the usual mixture of surprises, pathos and tedium. Cookies from the sky, and one BIG surprise: The most memorable moments of the 2017 Oscars 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z For players, it brings tedium and the realization that they are about to waste a remarkable amount of time on drills that are mindless and games that are meaningless. MLB spring training is unnecessarily long. Blame pitchers. 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Not once during Bannon’s deployments at sea was the ship involved in combat, but it was grueling duty, full of tedium and drills, according to shipmates and logs. How Bannon’s Navy service during the Iran hostage crisis shaped his views 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z In addition to these retro sites, there are emulators to recreate the blocky tedium of waiting for 56k modem to serve a page. Net nostalgia: the online museums preserving dolphin gifs and spinning Comic Sans 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z First, they share a workaholic absorption in the tedium of football strategy, a love for cataloging tendencies, and almost mechanistic work habits. Tom Brady and Bill Belichick’s secret? It’s not personal; it’s just business 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The tedium of watching TV and walking in the yard was only interrupted by a weekly Arabic lesson. Israel mulls more administrative detentions, as numbers rise 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z At the same time, volunteering has its moments of tedium. Crowdsourcing for Shakespeare 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z But in his time these daily tediums were laid over the violently shifting tectonic plates of religious warfare. Montaigne on Trial 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z He used music to help him cope with the boredom and stress, attempting to alleviate the tedium by remembering the lyrics of songs by REM, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping's new China 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Rita Popper, 77, has lived with the tedium of subway construction outside her home at Knickerbocker Plaza on the Upper East Side for years, dealing with inconveniences like delayed garbage pickup and snow removal. Second Avenue Subway Ringing In New Year With Party 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z “The duration, monotony and repetition entailed in the reading of each file echoes the normalisation of the violence and tedium endured by refugees in indefinite detention,” it read. Reading the Nauru files: the people who took the story to the streets 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z But he said he preferred over-preparation, to the point of mild tedium, over cramming. At Disneyland, USC embraces the Rose Bowl distractions 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z On the things-making of life, regulations are experienced every day as a mix of tedium and torment—a drag on profits, time and what used to be the joy of making money in America. Doomed to Stagnate? 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z The way we learn to love and connect most fully is the same way startups succeed: they take a leap of faith, coupled with a commitment to everyday tedium. 3 Ways to Turn Partnerships Into Lasting Happiness 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Waste, tedium, frustration, agonising 0-0 draws, a sport that simply refuses to do what it’s told. Tedium, frustration and 0-0 draws: Qatar and China join the football world | Barney Ronay 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Every so often Billy flashes back to Iraq, in scenes that plunge us into the everyday tedium and the sudden terror of being on the front lines. Ang Lee's moving, muddled 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' tells an Iraq War soldier's story 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Farm wives dreaded the tedium of ironing day; hence, “the sad irons”. The Big Con: what is really at stake on election day 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z After that he graduated to the tedium of strengthening his quadriceps and hamstrings. Kyle Schwarber makes Cubs more potent, helps even series in Game 2 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z |
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