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  • Tedium was closing in from all directions.†  (source)
  • "Nowt," said Askew, and I heard the deep tedium in his voice.†  (source)
  • But instead I'm numb with the tedium of a hard life.†  (source)
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  • Small periods of socialization are granted to alleviate the tedium.†  (source)
  • Yet, hours into the night, I lay awake arguing with myself: relentless tedium, back and forth, what if, what if, what harm could it do?†  (source)
  • Dutchy tells me about the tedium of life on board—how his best friend from their basic training days, another Minnesotan named Jim Daly, has taught him to play poker, and they spend long hours below decks with a revolving cast of servicemen in an endless ongoing game.†  (source)
  • Either way, my apartment required a good showerhead and lots of scalding water to erase the flipping-burger tedium.†  (source)
  • For students the age of my Bishop Strachan girls to spend seven weeks of the summer memorizing The Medea and The Trojan Women must have been an exercise in tedium—and one that risked disabusing the youngsters of their infatuation with the stage.†  (source)
  • I started noting the deadness in Padre Ignacio's voice, the tedium between the gospel and communion, the dry papery feel of the host in my mouth.†  (source)
  • I did jumping jacks and pushups and stood on my head in the little shack to break the tedium, but too much solitude rots the brain.†  (source)
  • pleased to have found a friend at these balls, where I expected to find only tedium... Does Ella (oops) Lela want more than friendship?†  (source)
  • And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium, and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking, above all else, something like a state of grace, less virtuous, motives of course for some Everesters myriad other came into play, as well: minor celebrity, career advancement, ego massage ordinary bragging rights, filthy lucre.†  (source)
  • Or do you just find that coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?†  (source)
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