Even now, the mob waving pitchforks and torches finds the details of accounting, compensation and corporate governance too tedious to take seriously.
If not, if Gregor is to be taken as seriously as he takes himself, how very tedious.
I don't foresee myself ever reaching for my wallet, because I'm having so much fun playing everything that the TV channels can throw at me – seriously, so much fun, even when it's tedious New Yorkers fun.
Seriously, director Rob Reiner has made one of the most tedious films of the year, which isn't so easy to do anymore.
While the rather pastoral aspects of the main characters themselves can be a little tedious, what makes this show stand out are the seriously realistic portrayals of true-to-life murderers, from "coed killer" Edmund Kemper to spree killer Richard Speck.
You have to work very hard, and take yourself very seriously as the keeper of the keys to America, to make a tedious documentary about the Second World War.
Although it is said that Sinatra stopped taking films seriously after The Manchurian Candidate, owing to his ongoing frustration with the tedious filmmaking process, his motion-picture résumé remains impressive.
There is of course nothing more tedious and less humanizing than gadgetry that takes itself too seriously.
Not everyone took the President's involvement in the controversy seriously; he was often included in satirical cartoons of the day, pointing to the superficial and tedious disagreements for which the writers lambasted one another.
Mostly, though, I think of what a weird and tedious trajectory it would be for an artist never to have someone consider her work seriously enough to question its motives and its successes.
