Sentence examples for had been tedious from inspiring English sources

Though the four hours of rehearsal had been tedious, they said, they all seemed thrilled by the ceremony, and by the honor of being chosen to represent their peers.

Sometimes those gestures have been tedious.

Since then, Granderson's recovery has been tedious.

And it must have been tedious to listen to.

The negotiations have been tedious, with Iran appearing to be playing for time, diplomats say.

Frankly, most protests the past few decades, while led by well-intentioned organisers, have been tedious.

THE campaign has been tedious and phoney, but it could nonetheless produce a cliff-hanger of a general election.

BEIJING — By many accounts, the two decades of off-again-on-again human rights talks between the United States and China have been tedious and unrewarding exercises in diplomatic theater.

"The task of getting new documents has been tedious and time-consuming," Mr. Casey wrote, alluding to his lost passport and other documents.

It seems telling that the most rewarding productions I saw were of plays that, with other casts, would have been tedious indeed.

This setup could have been tedious — a Hamlet-esque monologue for disgruntled teenagers — but for Frédéric's powerhouse command of language.