Nicholson Baker has argued persuasively that a recipe for successful nonfiction is an argument or thesis that can be summed up by reviewers and debated by the public without the tedious obligation of reading the whole book.
I wonder if the tedious and irksome obligations they choose in their spiritual path can be humbled by the bountiful praise and respect bestowed upon them, and if such a balance exists.
But Shoji also noted that White Day seems less popular each year as men and women both find the gift-giving obligations tedious and fewer woman are giving "true love" chocolates to anyone.
They seem, at least for Jaeggy, the aesthetic equivalent of a family obligation — tedious, and entirely for others.
In other words, zombie killing is philosophically similar to reading and deleting 400 work e-mails on a Monday morning or filling out paperwork that only generates more paperwork, or following Twitter gossip out of obligation, or performing tedious tasks in which the only true risk is being consumed by the avalanche.
A freelance professor, for example, may work 30 weeks a year as an adjunct, without the tedious research, publication and endless committee obligations of a full professorship.
This is one effect of Clinton's long public life: obligations, opportunities, challenges, and tedious rituals of politeness are all mixed up.
Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter - 3/5 "It gets a little tedious after all these years," admits Katniss Everdeen about her life's obligations in her final line of dialogue after 547 accumulated minutes of The Hunger Games films.
Have your weekends become a tedious tangle of other people's agendas -- children's birthday parties, neighborhood obligations, lawn care, children's birthday parties, oh and children's birthday parties?
The primary obligation is to prevent "the impairment of children's health or development", almost impossible in weeks of tedious confinement, fear and stress, which so many other countries avoid by using houses where people seeking asylum may stay.
