Sentence examples for tedious about from inspiring English sources

Is there something tedious about Picasso's bullying machismo?

And Cousin Violet and Cousin Isobel are at war over something very tedious about a hospital.

Save me from such parochial, small-minded neatness; from the quiet, simpering obedience that is everything tedious about being a lady.

Instead, he tells us the name of the boat of his ex-agent, lets us know the size of his working notebook, describes the buildings in which he attends parties, and grows positively tedious about when best to publish.

He spends a lot of time developing Freemantle, but there is something two-dimensional (and a bit tedious) about Freemantle's way of relating to other men through shared film and music references.

"What is perceived to be tedious about football, from a playing standpoint and even from a coaching standpoint, I happen to enjoy," Tomlin tells a faceless interviewer, so stoic and steady that not one part of his body moves for minutes at a time.

It is a remarkable turnaround for a party that has had a long period in the doldrums of electoral irrelevance in Scotland, the butt of tedious jokes about being in a country with more pandas than Tory MPs.

I will freely admit that it has taken me many decades to free my mind from the thrilling propaganda of NFL Films and see football for what it really is: hours of tedious milling-about punctuated occasionally by a few seconds of largely incoherent shoving and scrambling.

Nor do we require so much prep: the job of shucking oysters is as tedious to read about as it is to perform.

The books we were assigned to read for our English classes were tedious novels about boarding school and dated plays about the American Dream.

He had sought guidance from his grandfather about making Etsy a reality but ignored the tedious advice about writing a business plan, figuring the site itself would serve that function.