tedium

Just as entertainment businesses were disrupted by the global health crisis, so too were the courts, Sammataro said, compounding the typical tedium.

A good part of the job of a political journalist was to endure hours and days and weeks and months of tedium on the campaign trail waiting for that ever-hoped-for moment when the candidate would make a gaffe and you were there to witness it and write about it.

The latest series has attracted some scathing reviews, with the Telegraph complaining of "yet more tedium" and "terrible outfits", but Collider applauded a "jaw-dropping finale" after a "chaotic second act".

Trump may have buried his hate under the tedium of his speech.

Anika Noni Rose as Elena, the young wife of Alfred Molina’s Alexander who upsets the household with her seductive beauty, is forced to waltz about the stage in cumbersome getups that look like nothing anyone would wear for another day of rusticating tedium.