At least the end of John Prescott's ministerial career also brings to a close the tedious Tory jibes at his expense.
There are other figures who acquire the relentlessness of the leitmotif — striking when they first appear, dangerously close to tedious as you realize that, like eager party guests, they are never going to leave, yet somehow growing funny again through that undaunted capacity for repetition.
There are other figures who acquire the relentlessness of the leitmotif striking when they first appear, dangerously close to tedious as you realize that, like eager party guests, they are never going to leave, yet somehow growing funny again through that undaunted capacity for repetition.
Newspapers are closed with tedious regularity.
Who, what, when, and where all in the first paragraph, a trail of relevance slowly diminishing towards a tedious close: that's the way our newspaper forefathers who worked in lead type deemed best.
The first Monday morning of the new season and it feels like the close of the most tedious saga ever, Cesc Fábregas at last returning to Barcelona, made no difference.
Aside from that moment, Mr. Scholl's closing statement was often tedious, echoing the problem that prosecutors have had for most of the long trial, despite their efforts to enliven the case by discussing lavish spending by Mr. Kozlowski that is only tangentially related to the charges the jury will consider.
"Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (Tax Returns, Televised Golf) and, in waves, a boredom like you've never known will wash over you and just about kill you.
Which brings me to one of several points in the elevator's favor: A shared misery that brought residents together in close quarters at frequent and tedious intervals, it functioned as a major social artery.
(iv) Assigning a Hurwitz closed-loop Jacobian and ensuring positive semi-definiteness of the closed-loop dissipation matrix, the tedious definiteness check of the energy is omitted.
