How To Use Tedium In A Sentence
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It's how they deal with the mind-numbing tedium of riding long distances, the games the mind starts to play as your reach the end of your physical and mental tether.
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It's not just the tedium of the job - literally a daily grind, as they mash packets of powder into useable paint - it's the po-faced seriousness with which everyone around them gets on with things.
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But for some it would be sheer tedium.
Christianity Today
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I'm looking to be entertained: boredom, tedium is the worst literary or filmic sin, and cannot be excused by a pretence to some spurious intellectual superiority.
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The utter tedium of the actual games didn't stop everyone from feigning excitement over them.
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It is a brave and safe new world in which technology has liberated humankind from tedium.
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The second half was as poor as any in recent years; a desultory affair noteworthy only for its tedium.
Times, Sunday Times
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The proposed new lineup also drops Comedy Central, which often helps channel surfers flee the tedium of network programming.
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Who would have imagined that tedium could have such devastating effects on the environment?
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One can only imagine the sheer tedium of their school days and the constant humiliation they will have to endure in class.
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One of these two clubs may survive for another year of this mind-numbing tedium, due in no small part to the failings of the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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So, apart from the mind-numbing tedium of it all, what was wrong and what was the solution?
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In this case, not a lot has changed in the past millennium and a half, except that we're more likely to be wearied by tedium, ennui or heartsickness than by physical fatigue.
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For all of those moments, however, there are moments of tedium and mediocrity to sit through.
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What about a gap year between the drudgery of work and the mind-numbing tedium of retirement?
Times, Sunday Times
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The first is that it soars beyond the hysterical tedium of its promotional literature.
Times, Sunday Times
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The compiler takes on the tedium of ( re ) writing the function for each type we use.
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The discussion of soul-shrivelling tedium here – which is representative of just about any exchange with an atheist – started me thinking about the seeming incapacity of many atheists to go back to first principles and inspect their unstated assumptions.
Atheist irrationality « Anglican Samizdat
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But it was such a second-rate piece of work, and induced such an amazing sense of tedium, that I am not even going to mention its name.
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But really, these small successes were never enough to save me from the larger tedium of the evening.
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Others give themselves up to what they call keeping up society, which means being more at home in every person's house than their own; and some do a little weak art, and others a little feeble literature; but there are very few indeed who honestly buckle to the natural duties of their position, and who bear with the tedium of home work as men bear with the tedium of office work.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
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Jeffrey's memoir is, in the main, a work of numbing tedium, self-indulgent and lacking any sense of irony.
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You can end up a slave to the system, putting in endless hours of tedium and hating it.
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The second half was as poor as any in recent years; a desultory affair noteworthy only for its tedium.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just as a solitary sailor will beguile the tedium of empty days at sea by a kind of cribbage, in which the left hand plays against the right, so I laid odds for and against myself on such trifles as these, and even went so far as to keep an account of my successes and my failures.
The Quest of the Simple Life
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Philip Roth, in a 1973 New York Times essay on baseball, called "its longueurs and thrills, its spaciousness, its suspensefulness, its heroics, its nuances, its lingo, its 'characters,' its peculiarly hypnotic tedium.
NYT > Home Page
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Yet another competition, this time in the form of a tribute to the tedium of the fully extended dance mix.
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Then there is the sheer repetitive tedium of the ceremonies themselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Miss Grimes's distinctive voice and manner cut through the tedium even as she makes her first acidulous comment about the widow Harbury.
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Since a viewer watching this collection would have spent three previous episodes of tedium hearing about the mystery women who queered things between Slaughter and the DEA, it's nice to have the non-entity fleshed out.
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Other than the enjoyment of staying with family, it was an interesting experience of tedium, or rather of low expectations.
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Go to their concerts today and the sensation is not so much one of shock as mind-numbing tedium.
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Whether he, too, was tired of the tedium of fights and arguments between the two of them, or whether his guilt had simply caught up with him, he was trying to end things on good terms.
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So people eventually came in and the day developed into the same mind-numbing tedium that I've come to expect.
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The first is that it soars beyond the hysterical tedium of its promotional literature.
Times, Sunday Times
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That means I have 4 hours of boredom and tedium whilst standing and getting sore feet ahead of me.
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A library can provide the mind with nourishment, pleasure, yet prove a source of tedium and dismay.
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Previously known for his performances as Alan Parker Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium, he's now operating under his own name and offering a thoroughly enjoyable ragbag of sketches, stories, video clips, artwork and more.
This week's new comedy
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I'm not sure if the movie meant for this set-up to lead into hilarity or mind-numbing tedium.
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Downers? How could there be downers? But maybe the clichéd plot, the tedium, the mind-numbing sameyness about the whole game could be considered a downer.
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Speaking of soulcrushing domestic tedium ... the flat-packed home has finally arrived.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a process of adaptation, a habit acquired with effort, pain, and tedium.
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She began to wonder whether she wouldn't go mad with the tedium of the job.
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The tedium of earning a crust:'Have to work today.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of these two clubs may survive for another year of this mind-numbing tedium, due in no small part to the failings of the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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Similarly, a version of that song, commissioned for Children in Need, is a thing of death-dealing tedium.
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They go through the motions with manifest tedium as if they are moving files in an office.
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I'm looking to be entertained: boredom, tedium is the worst literary or filmic sin, and cannot be excused by a pretence to some spurious intellectual superiority.
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Once the dream house was finished, the frenzy of decorative schemes spent, the tedium set in.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tedium of dredging and sounding very likely accounted for the high attrition of ship's personnel by desertion.
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Against this _tedium vita_, however, I am fortunately mounted on a hobby, which, indeed, I should have better managed some thirty or forty years ago; but whose easy amble is still sufficient to give exercise and amusement to an octogenary rider.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
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Froghopping discreetly from soggy new wave to ecclesiastic country twang, Red Sparowes find a way to the beat tedium inherent to their genus - then ride it for so long that… are you paying attention?
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We played games to relieve the tedium of the journey.
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The proposed new lineup also drops Comedy Central, which often helps channel surfers flee the tedium of network programming.
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Whitman hoped that the tedium and pettiness of his senior years would not infect his poetry.
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The word chore connotes tedium, but that was not how I felt about them.
The Dirty Life
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There things remained until the 1960s, when new and young wine fans discovered in Rioja a wine they could afford — and one they could drink right away, without the space - and time-hogging tedium of cellaring.
The Rioja Renaissance
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This saves the tedium of having to go and find them on the server and then manually deleting the shares and folders as well as deleing the user from the Active Directory.
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We sang while we worked, to relieve the tedium .
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The portrayal of Bob and his boat could perhaps be said to reach inward -- although this is done through concentration and indirection, not through the tedium of the "free indirect" method -- as well as to expand outward and around Bob in concentric circles of thinly-layered exposition, but it could hardly be said to ever really push forward into a plotted narrative.
Experimental Fiction
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The proposed new lineup also drops Comedy Central, which often helps channel surfers flee the tedium of network programming.
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Mohammed dreamt up his alter ego working behind the counter at a drugstore, pining for something to freshen the job's tedium.
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The proposed new lineup also drops Comedy Central, which often helps channel surfers flee the tedium of network programming.
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After the sheer tedium of a disastrous relationship with a well known record company, the guys have taken to playing gigs for free in local pubs.
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Of course you always try and ignore it and snooze on, but sooner or later your eyes are open and the horror and tedium of real life await.
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Discussions between Shannon and Nicodemus and a class that cacographic latter lectures serve to enrich the history and environment of Spellwright without resorting to the tedium of worldbuilding.
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Soldiers often say that the worst thing about fighting is not the moments of terror, but all the hours of tedium in between.
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So people eventually came in and the day developed into the same mind-numbing tedium that I've come to expect.
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The book sold well and rapidly became fashionable, but was assailed in various critical pamphlets for length, tedium, and doubtful morality.
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In fact, at various boat shows vendors talked among themselves just to break the tedium, and I could consume a giant doughy pretzel without any fear a passerby would catch me with my mouth full.
Lita Smith-Mines: The Ebbs & Flows of the Economy
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The tedium sets in for two reasons, repetition and lack of interest.
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In experiments of breathtaking rigor and tedium, Ebbinghaus practiced and recited from memory 2.5 nonsense syllables a second, then rested for a bit and started again.
Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm « Isegoria
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It and the peak Abyla, on the opposite (African) coast, were styled by the Greeks, in their poetical language, "the pillars of Hercules;" whilst the strait between is said to have been executed by the same man of muscle, to wile away the tedium of an idle hour.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
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But after that, she declined into a fog of faux gaiety; of endless tedium alleviated by white-trash boyfriends, spongers, snobs and poseurs.
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A dancer attempts to run up the slope, but repeatedly slips down, to the point of tedium.
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It is said that Sylvia Plath used to write villanelles in her science lessons to relieve the tedium of the subject.
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Worse still is the title track - eight-and-a-half minutes of tedium and cliché interrupted by bad Riverdance impressions which really puncture the dark mood the song is trying to conjure up.
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She saves this film from slipping to unbearable tedium, investing every frame with the right hues, the right nuances, in her portrayal of a lawyer helping Devgan win the custody of the child!
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Is it tedium or is it the drawn out buildup to a perfect finish?
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She began to wonder whether she wouldn't go mad with the tedium of the job.
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The proposed new lineup also drops Comedy Central, which often helps channel surfers flee the tedium of network programming.
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Tedium and vexation accompany us as we wait with impatience to make a way out of our homelessness in a hobbling, heartless world into a shelter prepared for us from the foundation of the earth.
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Indeed, such climbs bring with them inordinate does of sheer misery, discomfort, tedium, and frustration.
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The deputy chairman of HBOS frequently used to talk about the tedium of looking around on the floor searching for pennies - and the excitement of chancing upon the occasional 50p piece.
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Luc Sante's time in a plastics factory is a testament and reproach to all those academic chancers in the Sixties and Seventies who hoped to get nearer the working class by suffering with them the tedium of the production line.
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But it seemed these beer busts were a diversion of these high-spirited young fellows whereby they whiled away the tedium of existence by making fools of their betters.
Chapter 27
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Mood and Figure the pretentious antilogies which they foist upon the public; and, indeed, such licences of composition often prevent honest men from detecting errors into which they themselves have unwittingly fallen, and which, with the best intentions, they strive to communicate to others: but we put up with these drawbacks to avoid the inelegance and the tedium of a long discourse in accurate syllogisms.
Logic Deductive and Inductive
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They were passports to wealth and power, all of which could be revealed to you in the safety of your study, without your ever needing to experience the danger and tedium of seaborne travel.
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Here we give thanks to those inventions and products that have made our lives free from misery, barbarism and tedium.
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What about a gap year between the drudgery of work and the mind-numbing tedium of retirement?
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a tribute to him that there is barely a trace of tedium in a performance lasting more than four hours.
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Against this tedium vitae, however, I am fortunately mounted on a hobby, which, indeed, I should have better managed some thirty or forty years ago; but whose easy amble is still sufficient to give exercise and amusement to an octogenary rider.
Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty
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The only things to break the dusty tedium are distant mountains, ragged scars on the horizon.
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Her mind drifting as pages of tedium detailed every last ha'p'orth of her father's wealth.
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It's feral to the point of tedium - almost as tedious as the plod of the rhythm section.
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‘Oh really,’ sighed Mary, the tedium evident as she edged her way backwards.
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These are often long slogs through tedium to track down these scumbags, and are rarely resolved within a day.
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Dr. W —, who, poor man, is cookless at present, has dined with me every day since she went away, an arrangement with which I am only too delighted and thankful for, for he is charming company, and his coming relieves most agreeably the tedium of my entirely solitary evenings.
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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And that the pleasurable sensations arising from these secretions may constitute the unnamed pleasure of exigence, which is contrary to what is meant by tedium vitæ, or ennui; and by which we sometimes feel ourselves happy, without being able to ascribe it to any mental cause, as after an agreeable meal, or in the beginning of intoxication.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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So, apart from the mind-numbing tedium of it all, what was wrong and what was the solution?
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The tedium of earning a crust:'Have to work today.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the real losers are the viewers who have to sit through two hours of uninterrupted tedium.
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What about a gap year between the drudgery of work and the mind-numbing tedium of retirement?
Times, Sunday Times
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Her mind drifting as pages of tedium detailed every last ha'p'orth of her father's wealth.
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The trailer is also a nice, atmospheric flimflam, selling the film's terror while, surprisingly, avoiding all its tedium.
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Since it's dark and cold outside for most of the year, the smorgasbord itself must be an attempt to offset tedium, angst, and monochromatism.
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