If you're wondering how astronauts cope with the sheer tedium of pumping iron for two hours every day – while teams on the ground monitor their vital signs and provide coaching – don't worry.
As the omnibus contained only one other passenger, a sleepy old lady, Amy pocketed her veil and beguiled the tedium of the way by trying to find out where all her money had gone to.
Making three meals a day, especially if your diners included small children, was tedium defined-an endless loop of eggs and beans and eggs and toast and beans and toast and eggs.
Why? To avoid the tedium of dining tete-a-tete, to give their servants a rest, because there was no reason to refuse, because they were " owed" a dinner.
To relieve the tedium of this untimely day she would overhaul the cupboards containing her grandfather's old charts and other rubbish, humming Saturday-night ballads of the country people the while.
Like just find the, like the tedium of writing and yet there's something that can captivate you in saying, oh, I really hope that this connects with somebody or I hope this story, I don't want to talk about me.
There was something glad in your glance, and genial in your manner, when you conversed: I saw you had a social heart; it was the silent schoolroom—it was the tedium of your life—that made you mournful.
They had brought over the fritter and drink stands from the Street of the Turks and the people were in good spirits as they bore the tedium of waiting and the scorching sun.
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They, for example, would love to learn the guitar, but they just can't do, you know, doing anything to a high level, enjoyable or not, requires a certain amount of tedium and dedication.
The remainder of the day was passed in the same dreadful tedium and suspense. I laid the table for dinner, while Northmour and Clara prepared the meal together in the kitchen.
It must have been deadly boring, and there is actually plenty of evidence of early office workers feeling exactly the same boredom and tedium that people do today.
What may sound like a recipe for tedium turns into something genuinely captivating thanks to the brothers' enthusiasm and sincerity and their surprisingly extraordinary cinematography skills.