Sentence examples for tedious discussions from inspiring English sources

The prime minister is no novice when it comes to long and tedious discussions at European summits.

In the tedious discussions that followed, Gallatin played the leading role, preserving peace among his colleagues and establishing an enviable reputation as a diplomat.

The movie's biggest flaw is its devotion of too much time to these increasingly tedious discussions, which have the tone of group therapy sessions conducted without a leader.

China has been keen to move negotiations on from tedious discussions over practical matters, such as illegal Chinese immigrants, and instead talk about Taiwan's political future and its return to the mainland.

At last the Association of Online Publishers conference has something meaty on the agenda, other back-slapping and rehashing the same tedious discussions about interactive media, user-generated content and multi-skilled journalists.

As Mr. Bush, his running mate, Dick Cheney, and the Republican Congressional leaders sat in casual clothing around a fireplace inside a house in the ranch, the scene provided a pointed -- and, no doubt, intentional -- contrast to the prolonged, tedious discussions under way in a Florida courtroom.

Hmmm: were we in for some tranced and tedious discussion of the merits of Moroccan versus Colombian gold?

Everyone from PBS to the Huffington Post is buzzing with anticipation — and not because they are awaiting the tedious discussion of committee reports and budgets necessary to manage the country's largest evangelical denomination.

Instead, some of the postmortems from Monday's Boston Marathon bogged down into another tedious discussion of why the Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai's winning time, an amazing 2 hours 3 minutes 2 seconds, was not a world record but simply a "world best," or "the fastest Boston ever" or a "course record".

People who bought Android phones in the past few weeks could be forgiven for keeping that information closely held, lest they be drawn into a tedious discussion of why they didn't choose the shiny new thing – the thing, by the way, that was created by the most brilliant and adored technology innovator in recent history.

A friend and I once had such a long and tedious discussion about whether Bramhall is in Manchester that the other mate we were with got so fed up with it he picked the candle up off the table in the pub and poured the wax over our arms to shut us up.