The worst of literary faults for him is, exactly, tediousness.
His complaints about the tediousness and terminality of current fictional convention are well-taken: it is always a good time to shred formulas.
His drafts, which his wife found in their garage after his death, amount to several hundred thousand words, and tell of a group of employees at an Internal Revenue Service center in Illinois, and how they deal with the tediousness of their work.
neighbor on a small point about baseball, that Honus Wagner taught him when he was a bat… Story about an English Professor's wife who worred about her husband's sentimentality and tediousness in conducting a meeting of the English Dept.
"Its tediousness, its pretentiousness, its galling sophistication, its gratuitous and easy symbolizing, its ghastly pansy rhetoric and repartee," an enraged Philip Roth wrote in The New York Review of Books.
Story about an English Professor's wife who worred about her husband's sentimentality and tediousness in conducting a meeting of the English Dept.
When did life become something you buy?" It's hard to know whether the tediousness of Ray's interior monologue is meant to be funny — the writers' wink at his failure to recognize how good he actually has it — or whether you're supposed to respond more tenderly toward him.
But such perks didn't make up for the unremitting tediousness of court life and a suffocating atmosphere of respectability.
God, if I added to the tediousness of the day to any of these guys, I'd feel awful".
For many of them, the annual hearing was a familiar exercise, a wintertime rite marked by its tediousness more than anything else.
