Sentence examples for tedious characters from inspiring English sources

Schwarzbaum was unimpressed by the "tedious" characters and criticised "the fussy performances of Bale and Beckinsale" in particular.

This is the tedious part.

In an ideal world there would be a one-character riposte that would convey that you'd stopped reading halfway through your interlocutor's tedious five-character put-down.

Nothing that happens in "The Answer Man" is especially surprising, which would be all right if the movie were less tedious and its characters endowed with more life.

The graphics are poor, the interface is unwieldy, the puzzles are tedious and the characters' voices are so inferior that one suspects they were recorded by the company's programmers and secretaries.

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.

Chekhov began his career as a playwright in vaudeville, a genre that didn't require the tedious business of connecting characters' thoughts to actions and to events in the externalized world of a play — a task that later frustrated him.

Consequently, the colloquies between characters grow tedious, stuffed as they are with artificial import.

Not only are these characters more tedious than they may sound, they monopolize "Joy's" first 45 minutes.

But what follows, for both characters, is rambling, tedious, opaque.

Plain lawyer wasn't enough?" A sort of pseudo-­etymology sometimes takes over the proceedings, as when the characters spend a tedious page wondering whether "irrigible" ought to be a word, on the order of "incorrigible".