tediousness

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Watching the play, “you sit through the tediousness of the every day, and by the time the third act comes around, you’re like, ‘Well, I don’t care anymore.’”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2022

It’s a chipper declaration about the obsolescence of boy-girl rules, the tediousness of assumptions and the glory of creativity.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2022

The plot proceeds at a punishing clip but there’s a tediousness to the proceedings, even at a rather tight 97 minutes, because no dramatic weight is given to anything that unfolds.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2022

The way this show enacts that frustration, though, often lapses into tediousness, closer to the worst goopy grandeur of “Dawson’s Creek” than the energetic cleverness of “The O.C.”

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2019

Their first wares had consisted of romances which were consulted as authentic histories; “dictes, or sayings,” of ancient sages which no one cared to contradict; and homilies and allegories whose voluminousness had no tediousness.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac