Because it is public, it is likely to be nasty, brutish and tiresomely long-winded.

ECONOMIST: The political mincing-machine

But the drum of campus political correctness beats tiresomely in the background through much of the book.

ECONOMIST: Theodor Seuss Geisel

Canada, which displays distinctive robustness on Arctic issues, is not minded to admit the EU, which tiresomely bemoans the annual seal slaughter.

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In particular, the conceit of linking his research to the ups and downs of his relationship with a tiresomely pro-communist (and humourless) girlfriend from East Germany is jarringly intrusive and self-referential.

ECONOMIST: Communist jokes

There, he has much annoyed Estonians and Latvians by badgering them in what they often see as a tiresomely prefectorial way into being nice to their Russian minorities, particularly in language and citizenship laws.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne