But the repetitiousness got on my nerves; cynicism set in. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: What more do you want?] Reference
But listening to the speakers as they followed each other to the microphone, I was struck by a repetitiousness which after a while seemed almost burlesque. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Lampley: Patriotism vs. Ethnocentrism] Reference
Still it's hard to argue with a bestseller: Clearly, for many, the action set pieces and re-search nuggets are sufficiently entertaining to justify the extraneous detail and repetitiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Some interesting plot touches, social insights, and deductive strokes lead up to a good surprise solution, but the excessive repetitiousness and laggardly pace put this one below the author's best. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
We have talked to each other too long, we repeat ourselves endlessly: we make a cult of erudite repetitiousness and call it intellectualism, and we exalt the footnote and the quotation to the station of sacred rubrics. From Wordnik.com. [The Banality of Liberalism] Reference
Practically every reviewer, including those who have praised it highly, has remarked upon its insensitivity to the ordinary conventions of grammar and literary craftsmanship, its repetitiousness, and near incomprehensibleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Private Man] Reference
If we have said this before you may slip it here; a certain repetitiousness is one part of our policy. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Garden] Reference
Much as I was enjoying Dana Delany and Eva Longoria Parker's performances, the mis-use of Felicity Huffman and general repetitiousness have turned me off. From Wordnik.com. [EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines] Reference
The best way to manage -- in fact, the only sensible way -- is to disguise repetitiousness of fact under variety of form: skin your fact each time and lay on a new cuticle of words. From Wordnik.com. [A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 5.] Reference
This argument builds on the claim which criticism believes so very well established: that the P sections all have a fullness of detail like legal documents and a certain repetitiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
As they prattle on, you step back mentally and start to catalog the irritating timbre of the offending voice, the reliance on cliché, the almost comic repetitiousness - in short, you begin constructing a story. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Magazine] Reference
Monks lulled by the repetitiousness of life, recitation, and work were prone to mumble the words of the service, jumble the words of the hymns, and make atrocious spelling errors in the works they copied in the scriptoria. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 2] Reference
I was actually worried about the way Erikson would deal with this fourth novella because the relationship between the two necromancers and their manservant Emancipor Reese needed to be renovated to not fall into repetitiousness and predictability. From Wordnik.com. [The Cesspit. - Home of the fool (on a hill)] Reference
" The words of this song lacked the purity of "Whispering Hope, " and there was a certain repetitiousness about them. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
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