Sentence examples for tedious ideas from inspiring English sources

One of Alex Salmond's former closest advisers has attacked the Scottish independence campaign for relying too heavily on "tedious" ideas and "tired policies".

But blueprints for applying IT tend to be disappointing: they often consist of tedious ideas for electronic voting or self-interested plans to hand over chunks of government to IT consultancies.John McGinnis's book "Accelerating Democracy" is an exception.

In theory he could have done this at Google with his "20% time" on the side, but in practice he found it tedious to pitch ideas to the Google bureaucracy.

Classtivity was the byproduct of a pretty good idea, tedious data aggregation and input, and relatively difficult tech in the form of search.

It's impressively designed by Philip Ivey, who worked on both District 9 and The Lord of the Rings, but depressingly predictable in its ideas and tedious in its boneheaded brutality.

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.

The trip through all of these microcosms can be tedious: too many shoeboxes, not enough ideas.

There are some sharp ideas tucked alongside the tedious high jinks and rank sexism of "Dillinger Is Dead".

Pitchfork gave it a 1.0 review, calling it "Audacious to the extreme, but exhaustingly tedious as a result, its few interesting ideas are stretched out beyond the point of utility and pounded into submission".

And I was sad that, for Americans, Philip Pullman's evocative "Northern Lights" became the tedious "Golden Compass".Often, though, one has no idea that the title one knows and loves has been dreamed up by a translator.

You will find few Americans who would consider his tedious duty at a tiny outpost their idea of fun.