Sentence examples for tiresomeness from inspiring English sources

This was Flaubert's first novel, a classic of 19th-century realism, marred only by the tiresomeness of Emma.

It's not just the tiresomeness of the narcissistic contestants that's the problem – you'd expect nothing less as many others have already pointed out – it's that the whole format is shot to pieces.

- Elms - The new carriages - Entering on a motor car - Its effects on the mind - Distances to be thought of in new terms - Entering on an electric tram - The possibility of looking round - A manifestation of the modern spirit - The electric tram at night - Its romantic appearance - Entering London on a bicycle - its tiresomeness".

Or has his clownish, retro appeal swung too far the other way and plonked itself in the long grass of tiresomeness, like David Hasselhoff or any of the music played in Walkabout?

After yet another night of drinking, arm-wrestling, hell-raising and champion-level tiresomeness, Reed turned up his toes mid-shoot with a number of crucial scenes still to be shot.

It's a plea for honesty – and an injunction against the unstinting tiresomeness of middle-class guilt.

He admitted privately that he was "bored by the tiresomeness and conventionalities of fiction-form", especially "the studied ignorance of the novelist".