Sentence examples for faintly tedious from inspiring English sources

The movie is scrupulous, intelligent, and faintly tedious — a little crude drama wouldn't have hurt.

It is the lack of an answer to this basic question that makes the whole book faintly tedious.

At first, the movie looks like a graveyard horror flick, and then, as Jewish temple guards show up bearing torches, like a faintly tedious art film.

We know it with a stack of corroborating scholarship and we know it implicitly, so that even making a list of the accomplishments feels faintly tedious, and is helpful mainly as a counter to Eurocentrism.

Prof. Richard Dawkins smiles faintly.

Faintly, maybe.

New to the part, he has a faintly Cleesian presence and looks as if he is humouring the material with the fixed smile (and frown) of someone minding a tedious child.

Tedious, dull.

Barnes looks faintly harassed.

Her voice came faintly.

His eyes blinked faintly.