tedium

As for me, I thought “The Blair Witch Project” was a comedy and “Cloverfield” was an experiment in tedium; this film is somewhat better than these two combined, but that still amounts to very little.

Viewing enjoyment affected by very un- “Paranormal Activity” » Scene-Stealers 2009

Yet active life was the genuine soil for his virtues; and he sometimes suffered tedium from the monotonous succession of events in our retirement.

I.8 1826

And while I didn’t love math class (or probably any class, there’s a certain tedium in structured learning), I never hated it in the way that many of my friends did.

» The Poetry of Numbers Strocel.com 2009

The idea of it becoming associated in people’s minds with tedium is kind of tragic.

Reading and Writing 2006

The idea of it becoming associated in people’s minds with tedium is kind of tragic.

Reading and Writing 2006

Sorry to run that down in such tedious detail but the tedium is my point.

odd accident N A 2008

Sumit Mitra and Anita Kaul: “Doordarshan, the tedium is the message”, India Today, New Delhi, May 31, 1982, op. cit.

Chapter 6 1984

However, Chronic City nevertheless suffers from its own kind of tedium, exactly of the sort Darby Dixon identifies when he admits he found it simply "boring."

The Reading Experience 2010

That the purport of the novel's "ideas and themes" doesn't go much beyond this surface satire is in its favor, as we aren't subjected to the kind of tedium the exploration of "ideas" in fiction usually entails.

The Reading Experience 2010

That the purport of the novel's "ideas and themes" doesn't go much beyond this surface satire is in its favor, as we aren't subjected to the kind of tedium the exploration of "ideas" in fiction usually entails.

Detecting a Wrongness 2010