| And that discussion turns, with wearying repetition, on the ways in which Canadians are not like Americans. |
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| Sitting cross-legged on the floor felt rather juvenile, but it was less wearying than standing. |
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| He carries around a great vat of nervous energy that makes him at least as wearying as he is scintillating company. |
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| Having spent a year immersed in the event, Sloan is wearying of the same old arguments, revisiting debates she thought were closed years ago. |
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| I had tramped miles and miles, in the hope of wearying myself so that I could sleep and forget. |
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| And while it makes for a fascinating listen, it also makes for a wearying one. |
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| His wearying recourse to the one-liner is the literary equivalent of tossing choc drops to the reader. |
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| She had gone to bathe before she prepared for a long and wearying journey across wild country. |
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| But to get those robust salaries, railroaders put up with wearying schedules, physical work and unpredictable assignments. |
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| Still, it can get wearying, being given optimistically sized underwear and too-tight tops again, and traipsing back to the returns desk with them year after year. |
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| Sooner or later your illicit, once-beloved object of affection will become tawdry, wearying. |
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| Yet he chronicles his travels with a wearying feather-light jocularity, prizing one-liners over lucid analysis. |
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| Aerobics was wearying, and I began to find basic Stretch and Strength classes rather predictable and unchallenging. |
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| Their demonstrable craft and frequent self-regarding preciosity is wearying. |
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| But the spectacle has become too painful, too empty and too wearying to contemplate. |
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| The optimism and salesmanship of American practitioners can be wearying, but it can also be exhilarating. |
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| Whoever then wishes to obtain Wisdom must pray for it day and night without wearying or becoming disheartened. |
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| All the laborious editing serves slight purpose, and presents the wearying phenomenon of a spoof of a schlock genre that is virtually a parody of itself. |
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| They have all seen advertising revenue decline significantly and executives believe the constant diet of down news is wearying readers and advertisers. |
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| It has been an expensive, laborious and wearying exercise contacting policyholders worldwide and convincing sceptics that demutualisation isn't such a bad idea after all. |
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| The wearying and thankless life of a tour manager was not the life he had hoped for though, so in August 1988 he returned to Australia and found a flat in Melbourne. |
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| He writes of his tough young team working long and wearying hours, racing to identify and solve problems, always soliciting opinions from engineers and everyone else involved. |
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| People giving longer-term care to an ill or handicapped family member often find themselves in a physically taxing and emotionally wearying situation. |
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| There are signs that, after almost two decades of confrontation rather than consensus, teachers are wearying of the constant carping, even in their own paper. |
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| To most outside the bubble, this excessive navel-gazing is wearying, even alienating: it fosters the sense of a media class which is only interested in what people like them have said about other people like them. |
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| Consider, for example, the wearying reality of Third World debt. |
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| The next 10 times after that, it was just wearying and grinding. |
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| Other times the questions can just become wearying. |
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| But it does not take long in ministry to realize that serving in the ministry can be wearying and exhausting at every level physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. |
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| What can be done, for instance, to prevent an employee over the age of fifty from wearying of work, when he still has many years of active life ahead of him? |
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| With these developments, together with miserable wages, rapid inflation, and relentless increases in food prices, it is little wonder that for many Third World people, putting food on the table is a wearying, daily struggle. |
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| Poverty, family tensions, drug and alcohol abuse, child neglect... the list of social ills that are compounded when people cannot find well-paying, regular work is long and wearying. |
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| The initial dilemma is whether to go for a childhood favourite – I was always a Frosties fan, despite finding Tony the Tiger's carry-on a tad wearying – or something completely new. |
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| The old pastor found his pastorate wearying, and longed to retire. |
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| The old pastor found his pastorage wearying, and longed to retire. |
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