Many have teeth stained from cigarettes they smoke and tobacco they chew to relieve the tedium.
This simple idea, which eliminates the tedium of searching for connections by hand, seems to work.
Look: It's not as if sports fans are incapable of going crazy for well-produced tedium.
Ex-militiamen may find it equally hard to adapt to the poverty and tedium of civilian life.
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With the break fast approaching, Falkirk finally ended the tedium with a well-worked goal.
The tedium of Valencia was followed by the most controversial grand prix for many a season.
She turns tedium into academic opportunity while waiting in long lines at the bank or the market.
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The Justices of the Supreme Court, as a rule, spare themselves unnecessary tedium.
Yet rather than avoiding this inevitable tedium, you must accept and embrace it.
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European state workers are often badly paid, having consciously accepted low salaries and tedium in exchange for job security.
Did he ever secretly wish for some action to break up the tedium?
Redford also wanted to be sure to illustrate the tedium involved in the detective work done by the reporting team.
"There's a certain amount of tedium in doing something and making it really great, and we like to embrace it, " Standefer says.
The first is that computers, with their tolerance for tedium, are particularly suited to writing the steps of a formal proof down.
Also the hermits of third-century Egypt, the so-called daemon meridianus, when their prayers were stultified by pointlessness and tedium and a longing for violent death.
But because Guild Wars 2 gives you more options right from the gate and really emphasizes and rewards exploration, that tedium is far less painful.
Sure, interesting things happen, but most of it is mind-numbing tedium.
To apply yourself to a field or to a problem for that long a time means there will inevitably be moments of boredom and tedium.
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Second, the initial stages of learning a skill invariably involve tedium.
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Prison dramas are notoriously difficult to render on screen with any authentic sense of the tedium that underscores the violence, claustrophobia and degradation of daily life.
The German pitch announcer told us - to the point of tedium - that we were all at a giant party and were witnessing the match of the year.
William, whose adventures spanned the 1920s to the 1960s, escapes the tedium of parental control in the company of his gang, the Outlaws, with whom he schemes against the adult world.
But scholars tend to associate fairy tales with women, at home, telling stories to one another to relieve the tedium of repetitive tasks such as spinning (which often turns up in these narratives).
Back when dotcoms boomed, some of the hottest new e-tailers were firms that promised to relieve people of the tedium of trailing around supermarket aisles allowing them to order their groceries online instead.
If free soloing (using only rock shoes, without the protection of a rope) is the purest form of climbing, then aid soloing is the slowest, most cumbersome kind one can imagine, mixing, as it does, terror and tedium.
While other top NFL executives have spent the off-season tied up in the tedium of the labor lockout, Rolapp--a cherub-faced 38-year-old--spent it looking ahead to the NFL's next great frontier: the convergence of videogaming, mobile computing and social media.
And it would be easy to forgive Brooks the insipidity of his characters and the tedium of his tale if he really delivered on his promised synthesis of the paradigm-busting sciences of the mind, but he delivers only a muddle.
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But this is not a call to some nostalgic lost era of education, and nor is the life-crushing tedium of school computing unique to the U.K. It appears, in a straw poll, to be common across a lot of Western Europe.
Yet the tedium served a purpose.
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