tediousness

• “Its tediousness is proverbial; and so special is the care of life and the resolution to prevent a catastrophe, that not even was Crab permitted to travel in our carriage, which was attached to the train.”

  Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

• “Yes, wherever the blame lies, there can be no doubt about it, that what this hilarious scoffer calls the tediousness of the way is but a too common experience among many of those who, tediousness and all, will still cleave fast to it and will never leave it.”

  Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)

• “The other kind of tediousness is only relative: a reader may find a work dull because he has no interest in the question treated of in it, and this means that his intellect is restricted.”

  The Art of Literature

• “The trial lasted a whole hour, the intention being, I suppose, to reproduce that tediousness which is so characteristic of real trials.”

  Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions

• “Then again, what Atheist calls the "tediousness" of the journey has undoubtedly a great hand in making some half-in-earnest men sceptics, if not scoffers.”

  Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)

• “tediousness" upon Leonato and by his own impatience.”

  Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies

• “Mixing in other characters helped reduce the tediousness of the fights.”

  Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How I Would Reboot Superman

• “Also, the fights are tedious in your opinion, not the opinions of other people; if your basic opinion on the tediousness of super-strength was true, most people would not have liked the recent Incredible Hulk movie.”

  Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » How I Would Reboot Superman

• “Some of the biggest problems in medicine don't get written about, because they don't concern eye-catching things such as one patient's valiant struggle: they're protected from public scrutiny by a wall of tediousness.”

  The Guardian: How flimsy research gets inferior drugs to market | Ben Goldacre

• “After some mind-numbing tediousness, You're What? and A Sky Without Zeppelins have been linked, each chapter to the next, but I won't be posting the indexes until those stories are finished.”

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