These hard-won, fond, wearisome, and implacable wives were, after all, just temporary makeshifts. |
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Immediately, Seltu lunged his body at his foe, hoping finally to rid himself of her wearisome life. |
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But their increasingly wearisome antics are not going to win many new friends. |
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We need them to safeguard us against drabness and drudgery, against a mechanistic and wearisome utilitarianism. |
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While jocular and jovial most of the time, these two titans can grow a bit wearisome with their constant credit taking. |
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And it is quite apparent to me, in retrospect, that without Mostel's comic genius this might be a very wearisome play to watch. |
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Their little world became wearisome and difficult as alliances broke and were reformed. |
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He manages to do or say something really annoying and despicable so often that it's wearisome. |
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The relentlessness of the jokes grows wearisome, and the ending is perfunctory and trite. |
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After a long and wearisome trial he was condemned on June 22, 1633, solemnly to abjure his scientific creed on bended knees. |
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He is finely convincing in his portentous and lengthy narration, which can be wearisome if the words are enunciated less clearly than here. |
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The producers also found it necessary to insert that wearisome kidvid standby, the cute animal mascot, to amuse the toddlers. |
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Our national character might also find the ever-smiling country club environment wearisome. |
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At the end of a wearisome session the temptation was to accept what he had to say simply to escape. |
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Novelty by its nature is a limited sentiment and Inverness must already regard their new environment with wearisome sufferance. |
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How can the government expect these girls to change when they are taught to live a tedious and wearisome life? |
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They walked at a wearisome pace across the trembling peat bog, knee deep in flowering ling, bog cotton and black slimy mud. |
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So I am not surprised when I hear repeated, with wearisome repetitiveness, so many absurd accusations. |
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The task of the shepherd, the task of the fisher of men, can often seem wearisome. |
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Pictures painted in shades of green are passive and tend to be wearisome, which contrasts with the active warmth of yellow or the active coolness of blue. |
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This neat device allows a smooth transition between the numerous scenes but the curtain goes up and down like a yo-yo and becomes wearisome after a while. |
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The report is full of hypocritical expressions couched in wearisome, waffling language. |
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Nowhere is the wearisome routine more depressing than in Kenya under its current president, Mwai Kibaki. |
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Mr Liikanen, you know that, much as I respect you, your office sometimes puts forward wearisome proposals. |
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This sort of literary affliction is most wearisome to those who are concerned with thoughts and the communication of thoughts. |
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When his full capacities are not demanded by the job he becomes emotionally fatigued and his work descends to a wearisome sameness. |
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The people who are frequently bored, and find life wearisome, are people who have not realized the joy of devising and making things. |
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The next stage, apart from being exciting for its sentimental and spiritual load, will be wearisome. |
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Another wearisome debate dominated by the slow-learning fanatics of a failed and rejected Constitution. |
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For most of us, the lack of daylight is a wearisome fact of life. |
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It's sometimes wearisome, sometimes amusing, to see partisan Democrats and Republicans constantly accusing the other side of things that both sides are constantly guilty of. |
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That's fun when you start, but after 15 years it can become wearisome. |
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But after a point the ridiculousness of the plot becomes a bit wearisome. |
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This is all true, but two hundred pages of it do become rather wearisome. |
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Is it that repugnant to label him a hero without the wearisome cycle of celebrity demolition? |
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Why is it sitting on so much cash and why is it so wearisome for small businesses to get credit? |
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Most importantly he had discovered that a long horseback ride, which sounds so thrilling in prospect, was in fact immensely wearisome and monotonous. |
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The G37 Sport isn't punishing but it can become wearisome on bumpy roads. |
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To be able to realise our own objectives effectively and keep a watch over our own interests, we always have to consider the special political circumstances that obtain in Russia, hard and wearisome though that sometimes is. |
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They have been on this tactic for the last several weeks, but I have to admit that it is getting a little wearisome to me and I am sure to most Canadians. |
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This means learning to silence our endless inner monologues, to still the mind or intellect, which is constantly running attempting to fill every nook and cranny with its wearisome rattling and opinions. |
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The finer points of the draft will probably be the subject of wearisome debate by December, as different groups ready themselves for the elections. |
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Moreover, old age is the final scene, as it were, in life's drama, from which we ought to escape when it grows wearisome and, certainly, when we have had our fill. |
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But what no one doubts is that compliance with the ever-expanding rule book is wearisome and hard. Furthermore, the politics of removing regulations is harrowing. |
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Mr. Tordini sounded strong throughout the set, but he spent a lot of time shadowing ostinatos played by Mr. Mitchell's left hand, a redundancy that grew wearisome. |
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The preparatory studies are of long duration, and man, in his natural desire to reach the goal, finds them frequently too wearisome, and does not wish to be troubled by them. |
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Our hope is stronger than the repeated disappointments and the wearisome doubts which we experience because it draws its power from a source which neither our inattention nor our forgetfulness can deplete. |
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For Borges, an immensely erudite man whose whole life was consumed by a passion for books and the idea of bookishness, was a miniaturist who found no virtue in length for its own wearisome sake. |
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Even in the mass games performed by 100,000 at the Arirang festival, the testimonies of defectors show how wearisome the training for the group gymnastics is. |
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Combined with Canada-based Chinese composer Kuan Nai-chung's bombastic score, a blend of Western neo-Romanticism and Chinese harmonics, it makes for a wearisome experience. |
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But for this barrier, the theological Cerberus would find himself turning so few passengers from its gate, that he would soon, himself, weary of his wearisome latrations. |
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