These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
Beware of creating tedium!
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
Tedium is the bane of immortality.
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?
I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
