'tedious talk' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a conversation that is so dull and long-winded that it is boring or unenjoyable. For example: "I was forced to sit through an hour of tedious talk about politics at the dinner table last night."
His demeanour is more languorous than lecherous, and after much tedious talk they eventually become lovers, though no sparks of passion fly to ignite the hot air.
Sure, the plucky chorus geeks of "Glee" offer a steady flow of heartfelt (and unrelenting, and tedious) talk of supporting one another and giving voice to the voiceless, typically in a speech to the whole school, in which we are told, at the speech's conclusion, "This song sums up exactly how I feel".
It could obviously have been stuffed anywhere into her tedious talk, to make it feel like she "got it", like there was some dialogue between her and the electorate, the true meaning of democracy rather than the binary fascism of the ballot box.
I wondered out loud whether it had become tedious to talk about "Triplets".
Such tedious political talk! (Former Queen Amidala: "You really don't like politicians, do you?" Anakin Skywalker: "I don't think the system works").
After a few hours of chain-smoking, tedious small talk and attempts at cajoling the men to release me, a woman from Donetsk's media center called.
"I had enough of tedious team talks when I was a player," Clough once told me.
This was tedious, and talking about it is tedious, but sometimes life is unexciting and we have to go through the ennui as well as the lows and also the highs, and this is where we are up to here.
While fending off his advances was tedious and his talk of his 'banana' was both repulsive and amusing, I did at least learn a bit about him.
On Tuesday, during his 6-Love-6 phone in, he cut off a caller who wanted to talk tedious stats about wild cards – "No, no, no, I'm sorry, that is it, that's enough" – and then 5Live's cricket correspondent, who began his report by saying, "It's halfway here, John…" "Well, forget it then," said Mac. McEnroe was asked about the Williams-Sharapova who's-your-boyfriend spat.
That may mean that more tedious and difficult talks lie ahead.
