Still, the story's fatalism grows tedious.
The rest, however, grows tedious quickly.
Watching the Cullens pose and smile in their modernist digs, gathered around the piano with frozen aristocratic languor, grows tedious.
Everyone spouts nicely turned baloney elevating golf to the level of a religious experience, which grows tedious fairly quickly.
But this is hardly a suspense story (behold: bridge), and Starr's dutiful recounting of civic process, wanting drama, grows tedious.
Documenting his case with detail that rarely grows tedious, Professor Schmidt exposes the following major flaws in the monument that Speer, who died in 1981, erected to himself.
Mr. Kotik has them explore some interesting rhythmic figures at first, but the texture (though relieved occasionally by a switch from drums to bells) quickly grows tedious.
Goulian is endearingly candid about the lingering traumas of adolescence and the pressures of growing up in a family of overachievers, but his litany of "a thousand and one anxieties" ultimately grows tedious.
This lack of modulation grows tedious, which is too bad because, as always with him, there are interludes of cinematic delight, when his visual imagination (like the transition in which Tintin and Haddock seem to appear in a puddle someone steps in) and his Spielbergian playfulness get the better of his insistence on bludgeoning us with technique.
The play's dozen characters are well-drawn, although Mr. Stone is much better at providing their back stories than at propelling the plot forward, and his play grows tedious after intermission — until a spectacularly blood-soaked finale which rivals Luca Guadagnino's new film "Suspiria" in its depiction of unbridled female fury.
