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  • n  dullness owing to length or slowness

  • In a certain sense, through its own gift of tediousness and soggy small talk, it mirrors an expensively empty world.
  • This was not done because they pined for entertainment to alleviate the tediousness of meetings, nor alone for the goodwill that Singer Jolson will bring to aid them in selling .
  • The result is an uneven book narrowly saved from tediousness by Author Purvis' occasional candor.
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  • Reading James Joyce's 'Ulysses' requires a heroic effort
    I've done it. I've scaled the heights of literary snobbery. I've read James Joyce's "Ulysses." You've heard of "Ulysses"? It's a famously dense, stream of consciousness novel, one that upon publication in 1922 was banned for tediousness. Sorry, banned for obscenity.
    June 16, 2013 - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
  • Reading 'Ulysses' requires heroic effort
    I've done it. I've scaled the heights of literary snobbery. I've read James Joyce's "Ulysses." You've heard of "Ulysses"? It's a famously dense, stream of consciousness novel, one that upon publication in 1922 was banned for tediousness. Sorry, banned for obscenity.
    June 16, 2013 - Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

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