Sentence examples similar to a wearisome task from inspiring English sources

Mistler is a 60-ish, emotionally dissociated businessman aesthete who, on learning that he has liver cancer, flees a wearisome job, a wife whom he no longer respects and a son whom he does not understand.

In order to have his budget adopted and his legislation passed, the president of the United States was forced to carefully gather the necessary votes on every question, bearing the wearisome task of constantly forming alliances.

"A gay and pretty [Princess Margaret] moved radiantly through the wearisome tasks of a working princess … with every graceful gesture [she] was strengthening all the warm, heartening little sentimentalities on which the empire rests".

This was a wearisome burden and many conservative intellectuals eventually tired of the job (and the administration).

While the small staff is unrushed, each course arrives without a wearisome wait.

During a "wearisome and disagreeable" night, the soldiers camped and pondered the next day's battle.

She detects a wearisome "cultural preoccupation with healthiness above all else".

Indeed, by the middle of his life writing had become a wearisome business for Walser.

Too much choice can be a wearisome thing, promoting food waste and inefficiency and complicating our lives needlessly.

I ask Ollie if he wants a go, and he gives me a wearisome look.

Shows like this can be a wearisome tramp through information, but this one is stimulating.