Throughout your life you will encounter tedious situations, and you must cultivate the ability to handle them with discipline.

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The culture at the lab was so ruthless about calibration and controls that life there could only be described as crushingly tedious.

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Forgive me if this seems a tad tedious - if, for instance, you think there's more to life than football - but it's a story that gets ever more eye-popping and surreal.

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Terry Gilliam had a good idea to re-create the origins of the fairy-tale-spinning Brothers Grimm but, as it turns out, the movie is yet another noisy, hyperbolic, digital farce, with people jumping in and out of the frame and turning into corpses and then coming back to life, trees endlessly moving around the woods, and much general tumult, and the movie quickly becomes tedious.

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