Abject after a manic bout of illness, Bernard describes Frances's refusal to marry as "an attempt to escape the tedious daily struggle to love another human being".
The expression group of death was not coined to suggest termination by boredom, though this attractive and eagerly anticipated fixture only produced an earnest but tedious midfield struggle.
It was family loyalty more than any interest in either the daughter or the nation's tedious power struggles that brought him here today, that and the spirit of adventure itself.
After that, Glamorama, was a long, tedious indulgence that I struggled to finish.
The commission, which has a history of deadlocks, had set a deadline of May but is struggling with tedious details over how, or whether, to place contribution limits and other restrictions on so-called 527 committees, one of the few remaining ways to collect unlimited campaign contributions.
He watched Clemens retreat to the bullpen 15 minutes earlier than usual and watched him struggle through a tedious first inning.
As a business author, my goal is to get the ideas into a document, and not to struggle with the tedious formatting details.
The managers often struggled with the tedious but intricate tasks required to make everything from toys to DVD players "People working in the office, like me, have been asked to help on the factory floor," said Sky Niu, the sales manager at the Hengjia Electronics Company in Dongguan.
Attention deficit is difficulty concentrating, people with ADHD struggle to concentrate in tedious tasks, have a short attention span and get bored and lose interest in activities faster than their peers, are easily distracted and often struggle to achieve to their potential in many areas of their lives, they often have difficulty staying on task and completing tasks in required time.
