Sentence examples for tedious academic from inspiring English sources

Fin de siècle Vienna, Weimar Germany, Harvard University (where he is seen in our photograph) before and after the first world war: all come to life on these pages.Most economists live pretty dull lives, dividing their time between technical intellectual problems and tedious academic politics.

A character is foreshadowed for 150 pages without then bothering to appear; jokes are repeated, absent, or just rubbish; the opening is a third-hand account of a tedious academic committee meeting; no one speaks or behaves like a human being; the farce element is unsophisticated; and the efforts to shock are feeble.

There is a way to see films that can teach you more than working as an assistant director, without the viewing process becoming tedious or academic.

Carpers may also notice that few of these merry letters deal with the tedious administrative side of academic life.

And despite his passion for the material, his coldly academic prose is as tedious as a term paper.

Just as important is the birth of a new concept of what is being delivered".Competency-based education" sounds tedious but reverses most of the basic tenets of academic teaching.

Freeman Dyson, the physicist, captured the full range of academic sentiment in this dry appraisal: "This experiment is clumsy, tedious, unoriginal.

For the next two years one MIT academic in particular, Roland Pellenq, played what amounted to a really tedious video game.