Ferguson regards this as tedious.
Those very naughty books he had published anonymously, whereas, according to Francine du Plessix Gray, he published "more than 20 excruciatingly chaste, excruciatingly boring plays, and a few equally chaste and tedious prose fictions, of which he was immensely fond".
Gogol wrote an ironic apostrophe to the unpraised writer who observes "the dreadful appalling mass of trifles that mires our lives, all that lies deep inside the cold, fragmented quotidian characters with which our earthly, at times bitter and tedious path swarms... .. "Equally wondrous", he claims, "are the lenses that survey suns, and those that convey the movements of imperceptible insects".
It was 'Manchester Bluff.' The system I don't know the name of — it was on the principle of the 'asymptotes of the hyperbola.' It was tedious work to decipher — equally laborious to write in cipher.
Its privacy setup process put the less and more private options right next to each other, presenting them as equally valid choices rather than some tedious configuration tool that might break something if you're not careful.
While the search for a new apartment could be a tedious, it could be equally exciting.
Equally, there is no time for the tedious business of actually reading a book from cover to cover, and anyway, reading the work of others would simply pollute one's own untainted genius – right?
The really tedious stuff is all the also incomplete, equally self-serving pronouncements that surround 'fake news'.
"Anyone Can Whistle" is dedicated to the proposition that all men and women are equally a) insane and b) sane, and it goes to fanciful, tedious lengths to expound this theory.
