MOST remote control owners will recognize the tedious stick-shifting that is often required to play a DVD: first, pick up the cable remote and click On.
Tedious proofs are shifted to Section 4.
To give the design team their due (Mark Fisher, Ray Winkler and Ann Hould-Ward), the Middle Eastern costumes start off looking authentically beautiful, before we shift to a tedious orgiastic Rome – all gold bikinis.
This shift was slow and gradual, but not tedious in the slightest the opposite, actually.
And in the construction industry, technologies like the Semi-Automated Mason (SAM100) will shift workers out of tedious manual labor roles and open up additional jobs for those with supervisory and technical skills.
I always have faith that even though something starts off difficult or boring or bad it might suddenly shift gears, making insane sense out of what had before just seemed tedious as hell.
You have reached the point in your parenting life when your status has shifted, irrevocably, from hero to tedious fool.
She said the work, which included stripping bark from the thin poles, was sometimes tedious, but "therapeutic". The students labored in shifts, trading off tasks as they left to attend class.
The nation's large paging companies began shifting their operations to other satellites -- a tedious process that involves manually redirecting thousands of satellite dish antennas nationwide.
Shifting between email, Skype, and messengers can be tedious and inefficient.
Given the world's shift toward video, both in terms of consumption and creation, it's almost surprising how tedious and painstaking the process of post-production collaboration can be.
