Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. From LearnThat.org. [Arthur Helps (1813-1875)]
Sorry to run that down in such tedious detail but the tedium is my point. From Wordnik.com. [odd accident] Reference
The idea of it becoming associated in people’s minds with tedium is kind of tragic. From Wordnik.com. [Reading and Writing] Reference
Sumit Mitra and Anita Kaul: Doordarshan, the tedium is the message, India Today, New Delhi, May 31, 1982, op. cit. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
A kind of tedium enveloped us, made worse by the heedless happiness of our daughter. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
I resist the word "tedium," because sailing can have so many rapturous moments, and there are accompanying pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [Aweigh] Reference
How much of the "tedium" of, well, human understanding, can machines take away?. From Wordnik.com. [ReadWriteWeb] Reference
Otherwise the film becomes an exercise in tedium. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
Mountains of beauracratic tedium usually accompany loss. From Wordnik.com. [New Harbinger: 8 Tips for Mindfully Processing Grief] Reference
An entire nation living at warp speed has no time for tedium. From Wordnik.com. [Watching The World Go By] Reference
It's a mission of mind-numbing tedium carried out in the dark. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Byers's ÂPercival's Planet, reviewed by Ron Charles] Reference
All the family set-up material had a certain degree of tedium. From Wordnik.com. [William Bradley: Mad Men Makes the All-Time Television Pantheon and Unspools Another Fine Episode] Reference
The magic moment of birth without the tedium of toilet training. From Wordnik.com. [Watching The World Go By] Reference
Back at the ranch, Alaniz's "invasion" relieved some of the tedium. From Wordnik.com. [Was It Friendly Fire?] Reference
Not that the show didn't suffer from it usual case of intermittent tedium. From Wordnik.com. [View From The Small Screen] Reference
To break the tedium, the crews of American spy planes sometimes clown around. From Wordnik.com. [A Crash In The Clouds] Reference
But the tedium that creeps in from time to time is integral to the narrative. From Wordnik.com. [On the Lost Highway] Reference
But a single call over the radio can turn the tedium into something far worse. From Wordnik.com. [Straight To The Heart] Reference
And if viewer antagonism may mar a cause, viewer tedium will obliterate one completely. From Wordnik.com. [A Festival Or Homework?] Reference
Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory. From Wordnik.com. [On The Web, New Conceptual Art] Reference
Though it courts tedium at times, it's clearly the work of an immensely talented filmmaker. From Wordnik.com. [Back to the Future] Reference
He does not love the tedium surrounding the game, much of it in the offseason and preseason. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Brandt: The Vikings kept waiting, and Brett came back] Reference
The gardens are being planted to relieve the tedium of relief food, on which everyone depends. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting For Spring In Sarajevo] Reference
I find that it is now possible to mathematically quantify the tedium, thanks to a new Web site. From Wordnik.com. [Gene Weingarten: I hate Facebook sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. . .] Reference
Stevens: "My job is boring — I think I'll write some incomprehensible poetry to break the tedium.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mata Hari of the Faculty Lounge] Reference
Even the tedium is tense, because the quiet can be shattered, at any time, by sniper fire and explosions. From Wordnik.com. [Hanks, Spielberg Strike Out For 'The Pacific'] Reference
He was easily bored and especially uninterested in the tedium of the offseason, especially those endless meetings. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Brandt: Will Brett Favre Really Retire?] Reference
Pen cannot do justice to the stories abounding in wit and humor wherewith soldiers relieve the tedium of the camp. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
A blessed revelation it is to every life when the joy of play robs the working hours of their tedium and weariness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Cox notes that "being civil is rarely fun — it requires patience, forethought, and some willingness to tolerate tedium.". From Wordnik.com. [Lost in Electronica] Reference
Her face was lit up with joy, as expressive and animated as the tedium and thoughtfulness which marked it had been profound. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
What the numerical tedium did force from her mind were the question marks that the previous night repeatedly posed in her mind. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference
Max has endeavoured to relieve the tedium, and get up an interest of some sort, by renewing his attempts against the great eel. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
Because, if you're not careful, you wind up writing about the tedium of your own inspiration to a soon-to-be-uninterested audience. From Wordnik.com. [Pi in the Sky] Reference
But for their real-life counterparts, homemaking had a couple of fatal flaws, primarily the tedium and the lack of tangible rewards. From Wordnik.com. [Household Appliances] Reference
(Written: April 12, 2010, in a cube beneath fluorescent bulbs, as a challenge set forth by Robb Todd to make something of the tedium). From Wordnik.com. [Patient] Reference
If he could find something else besides clams and biscuit, the tedium of his existence here would be alleviated to a still greater degree. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
His boys, well taught in all manner of farm-work, send him, from his home in the country, hampers of fresh fruits, to relieve the tedium of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
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