WILL SMITH Yes, that's right, but first... 911 OPERATOR You've got some monumentally tedious acts of do-goodery to perform?
While the film is mostly mired in the domain of painted ladies in colorful saris, on occasion the action, if it can be called that, halts to observe characters in tedious acts of observation.
(Zinoman) 'TO WALK IN DARKNESS' A pair of tedious one-acts, by a former mathematics professor, loosely (very loosely) based on two Henry James stories.
The Hornet captioned its review, "Thespis; or, the Gods Grown Old and !" The Morning Advertiser found it "a dreary, tedious two-act rigmarole of a plot... grotesque without wit, and the music thin without liveliness... however, not entirely devoid of melody..
"Tedious?" "It makes you fatigued".
Being a thief is banal but writing about it is magnificent and with this exhibitionist act of tedious subversion, I have recreated myself once more as gullible, European radicals reclaim me for their own.
Lincoln's great antislavery speech, his Cooper Union address of 1860 the speech that "made him president"—begins with a modest and even tedious invocation of the acts of the 39 signers of the Constitution: had they voted on national questions regarding the extensions of slavery?
It is beautifully filmed, lovingly acted, but tedious in its telling of its story.
