The more I read, the more tedious I found his work, the more I heard the swish of emperor's clothes".
It is tedious to find objects that are among the faintest in the night sky; the satellites' light comes from reflected sunlight, which diminishes greatly on its way from the Sun and even more on its way back to observers on Earth.
(He also read "2001: A Space Odyssey," by Arthur C. Clarke, and appreciated the book's slow pace, which he said he would have found tedious before his expedition).
That, too, he found tedious.
(This last subject is one that Darwin himself seems to have found tedious).
He went there as the European Union external affairs commissioner and, although he found tedious amounts of bureaucracy to contend with, he remains committed to the European project.
On Sunday afternoons, my parents insisted that the family go for a "drive" – an idea I found tedious in the manner of teenagers the world over.
I also found tedious the heavy-handed double entendres in Steve Marzullo and Mark Campbell's take on Lust, "Burning the Sauce," in which a raspy-voiced blues singer yearns for a man who can regulate her burner.
In The Horae he published a collection of short stories, Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten ("Conversations of German Émigrés"; Eng. trans. The German Refugees), which were found tedious, and the Roman Elegies, which were found scandalous, and serialized a translation of the autobiography of Florentine Mannerist artist Benvenuto Cellini, which was acceptable but unexciting.
This week at the premiere of A Dangerous Method, the film about Jung and one of his patients, Keira Knightley was asked about the scene in which she is spanked (one of the more interesting scenes in a film I found tedious).
I want you to shout them slower and louder and with genuine passion or I will make you take the oath as many times as I desire!" As tedious as I found it, the oath must have irritated pupils of Kurdish and Greek origin most.
