Sentence examples for a tedious exercise from inspiring English sources

He's a tedious exercise in relentless product placement transparently modelled on Jason Bourne.

Subjects were willing to help out — moving a couch, performing a tedious exercise on a computer — when they were offered a reasonable wage.

Even Dr Alexander's (Emilia Fox) professional crisis, prompted by performing the autopsy on the murdered girl, came across as a tedious exercise in self-obsession.

Critics of the tradition consider it a tedious exercise for juries, with judges explaining complex concepts of law in dense language that is not easily understood or retained by jurors.

Unsurprisingly, this latest incarnation is business as usual, an addictive game of incredible depth and detail – or a tedious exercise in the pointlessly anal, depending on your viewpoint and, possibly, gender.

The danger for "Meet the Press," and shows like it, is the same as for the President: that political talk, a discourse about power and ideology, becomes a tedious exercise in labeling — good, bad, boring.

He thinks of it as a largely tedious exercise of checking traps.

But ultimately "In the Shadow of the Maggot" is a somewhat tedious exercise in nostalgia and revved-up mimicry.

Manual extraction of drainage network and assigning the stream order from a published Survey of India (SOI) topographic map and from georeferenced satellite data for a large area is a time taking tedious exercise.

It takes one of the most exciting plays in sports and turns it into a clinical, analytical, tedious exercise in philosophy and ethics.

All the above is a boring and tedious exercise in corporate contracts.