Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.
It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.
Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.
A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes.
The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.
One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.
LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.
Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.
Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.
My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.
My backstory is so tedious.
Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i. e. , somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.
Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.