By architectural wonks, Wright houses are indeed considered works of art, but unlike a Monet, a Warhol, or various other two-dimensional treasures that collectors are willing to spend upwards of $1 million for, potential buyers expect living in art to be much more tedious than living with it.
Apart from a blissful eruption when the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, rediscovered his proletarian roots and thumped a protester who had thrown an egg at him, this election has been the most tedious in living memory.
Remember, he said, "some of these people actually have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall".
However, MAT has many disadvantages including time-consuming, tedious maintenance of live Leptospira, risk of cross-contaminations and hazardous to workers because of the exposure to live bacteria [ 6].
When asked to go into more detail about what qualities, exactly, contemporary French novels share, he gleefully set a tedious scene: "People living in Paris, in the kitchen, eating eggs in the morning.
So it was that Belacqua found himself sitting like a casse-poitrine – that's ready to suck himself off, to you and me – on his gravestone, picking his nose, smoking cigars and waiting to go through the tedious effort of living again in order that he might once more die.
It gives us the most unwittingly tedious people in fiction, living their "outrageous" London lives: drinking champagne, decorating rock stars' houses, glamming it up in a Groucho-esque club.
So here, perhaps, is the sum of the matter from a religious perspective: The more self-absorbed we become, the more tedious and dreary our lives inevitably become over time.
Between them, these two men have been leading newly-formed legions of keyboard warriors in a rush and a push to spill the other side's credit card details all over the web and generally make their lives as tedious and annoying as possible.
The series, which has its premiere on Wednesday night on NBC, is really good at doing exactly what you expect, which makes it surprisingly tedious for a show where lives are on the line almost nonstop.
