Sentence examples for tedious like from inspiring English sources

At first, Football Manager feels tedious, like setting the table for a meal that you won't eat for days.

And the work itself can be tedious, "like finding thousands of needles in a haystack," Mr. Keller said.

It was "tedious, like pulling weeds out of the planet's largest garden," she says, but ultimately fulfilling.

Parts of the game are remarkably tedious, like a series of easy duels that wears out its welcome by the first duel.

But it is also tedious, like a lot of works of suspense — the thriller "Sorry, Wrong Number," for instance, may be the longest eighty-nine minutes in motion-picture history.

In her screen roles, this statuesque, handsome woman usually substituted presence and charm and hokum for performance; she wasn't tedious, like her brother Lionel, but she was a hollow technician.

But almost every answer she gave last Sunday was a rambling and often tedious Gore-like filibuster.

But while the Glenn is not a bad place to stay, it could do without some of its tedious affectations: like many boutique hotels, its sophistication feels like a dousing of hair gel and cologne, and its sex appeal like a deluge of Reddi-wip, leaving little room for much Southern charm.

And while the subject can certainly be tedious -- like how to define a campaign expenditure -- the commission's ruling, expected as soon as May, could have major consequences for American elections, though maybe not in time to affect the 2004 races.

It was fun and frustrating, exciting and boring, illuminating and tedious, just like journalism is.

So, as Pollan asks, why shouldn't we get corporations to do the really tedious things like chop the onions?