tedium

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• It keeps getting uttered out loud by players and coaches even in a sport languishing in the boredom of boardrooms and the tedium of mergers and acquisitions.

• If we want to make progress, that requires the kind of persistence and tedium that is not glamorous.

• If you’re like most Americans, the past year has been a time of fear, anxiety and often profound tedium—but also of worsening dietary habits.

• Getting shots to more people would bring a quicker end to the tedium.

• The work is ceaseless and routine to the point of tedium—and almost half of primary-care physicians are burnt out.

• What is it about bleakness and tedium that are so attractive, other than the fact that most people instinctively recoil from it?

• A third night in hospital for Kate tonight, but the tedium was relieved by a visit from brother James and sister Pippa.

• He advised diners to flee “right back out the door … you will be spared an infinitely larger measure of tedium.”

• Since I loathe the tedium of gym workouts, I take breaks for tennis with my eclectic group of tennis pals.

• Tom and Blanche had fallen into teasing tricks, a sort of melancholy play to relieve the tedium.

• Everything that wealth and loving care could secure was provided by Bruce to lessen the tedium of the journey.