The Bible is almost 800,000 words long and littered with tedious passages about begetting.
There are some tedious passages, but Mr Chaudhuri is capable of producing that quicksilver compound of recognition and surprise, which is, of course, what so often distinguishes art from stage directions.Unlike Mr Mishra, Mr Chaudhuri allows us to be eavesdroppers.
Vivid narrative scenes -- all-night carousing with the Andy Warhol crowd, for example, or a nightmarish mescaline trip that Norris experienced -- give way to tedious passages encumbered by detail, and infused with language about as compelling as that of a promotional brochure.
When the memories of yesterday's more tedious passages of play have faded, the mind's eye will retain the image of some of the individual shots the Swiss manufactured on the way to becoming the first of his nationality to hold the men's title.
Get used to respecting the point away from home, creating two chances all game, 4-5-1 dressed up as something else that your pretty little head just wouldn't understand, and long tedious passages of play with no obvious plan beyond not conceding.
His book is more Byzantine than the Alvarez volume -- full of higher highs and lower lows; more tedious, technical passages; but more suspense and color as well.
Having restructured its way out of a financial bind, Eurotunnel only need worry about ferries and airplanes, which offer slower (ferries) and more tedious (both) passages.
Although law firms and barristers' chambers deem work experience a prerequisite for their recruits, most students see it as a tedious rite of passage rather than an authentic learning experience.
And it fails to bring oxygen to those tedious, theme-hammering passages in which members of both the upper and the servant classes exchange philosophies on woman's place in a man's world.
This meandering approach is sometimes tedious, particularly during the repetitive passages dealing with the ups and downs of her love life and her insecurities in a male-dominated world.
