The tediously close correlations between currencies, and with other asset classes, are now waning.
WSJ: Strong Start to 2013 Hints at Revival for Currency Funds
But unlike Americans, Britons like their reality to be depressingly, and sometimes tediously, real.
He spent years tediously deducing the rules by which polyketides' enzymes work and how to combine them in new ways.
Shot in muted, muddy browns and with a jaunty ragtime score by Randy Newman, "Leatherheads" is artfully constructed but tediously self-conscious.
In the new novel, Thomas Cranmer is tediously devout, a flinty bore.
The first task, which previous research has shown to deplete self-control, was tediously crossing out all the Es on a page from a statistics book.
Much of bin Laden's life seems to have been tediously suburban.
By the time Ludolf van Ceulen died in 1610, he had spent many years of his life tediously calculating pi, resulting in only 35 accurate digits.
Without the characteristically stifled and knowingly awkward laughter that usually accompanies Beckett's plays in the theatre, his texts can appear denuded, clumsily formalist and tediously inhuman.
Murphy puts a high gloss on dysfunction, and the tediously drawn-out scenes that are constantly punctuated with high-energy seventies songs counteract any potential emotional connection with the characters.
The list of sponsoring organisations is a Who's Who of non-governmental organisations from the fringe (the National Queer Commission) to the obscure (the Nicaragua Network Peace and Social Justice Centre of South Central Kansas) and the tediously predictable (the Young Communist League).
Natalie Portman, as skillful as she is attractive, does have her moments -- it's affecting to see her hair being shaved, like Joan of Arc -- but wide-eyed Evey whimpers endlessly, and tediously, on her way to becoming a fearless woman who's able to love.
The tenor, a journalist who comes to interview the diva, turns out to be a wannabe opera singer himself, and in a fantasy sequence the two tediously execute the love duet of the diva's opera (about Eleanor of Aquitaine, of all things), a ponderous event with not one scintilla of musical heat or passion (that's the bit that ends with the bells).
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