Sentence examples for tedious discourse from inspiring English sources

In a drunken scene, questions are raised about Olga Petrovna's paternity (a scene that has as its highlight a long and deliberately tedious discourse by Kuzovkin about being robbed years before of the estate that was rightfully his, and the resulting Dickensian, or Gogolian, lawsuit), and, given that we are in mid-nineteenth-century Russia, questions of property are sure to follow.

On the other it creates tedious discourses of no interest to anyone, or deconstructs its own intellectual purpose.

The danger for "Meet the Press," and shows like it, is the same as for the President: that political talk, a discourse about power and ideology, becomes a tedious exercise in labeling — good, bad, boring.

Her riff on the line from Barthes — "the object in discourse assumes an exalted place," from his "Writing Degree Zero" — could easily have been precious or tedious, or otherwise annoying.

Tedious, dull.

Some folk discourse.

"So it's tedious, really tedious.

Less discourse.

A gun silences discourse.

He finds them tedious".

The hunt grew tedious.