It would seem a routine, albeit tedious, matter to cull from those records the information necessary to calculate a reasonable royalty on the basis of the number of articles copied, or perhaps to come up with an acceptable formula for establishing a blanket annual royalty payment.
But much of this book is devoted to more tedious matters, and not all of it is even firsthand.
The independents and, to some extent, the smaller parties are unburdened by such tedious matters as to how to win power.
Here we might discuss not such tedious matters as "the marginal propensity to consume", nor the niceties of "demand management" (questions that probably bored Keynes even as he formulated them) but what, exactly, capitalism is for, and whether, as Keynes periodically hoped, it could ever be significantly modified or superseded.
"Can we do something a little bit more animated?" It's a dangerous line to insert into such a tedious work, where the subject matter, which hints at the freedom and danger of taking flight, slips into melodrama, with couples bickering.
The program was divided into two components, "Religious Leaders and the Courts" and "Mediation and Community Dispute Resolution," each of which served as a reminder that panel discussions are almost always a little tedious, no matter how interesting the participants.
A tedious respectability clings to this exhibition even though the subject matter is sex.
These divisions have resulted in inactivity and a tedious inability to get things done —important problems remain unsolved and even routine matters prove too tough to finish.
It follows a tedious ritual.
A tedious by necessary evil!
