| By now their dialogue has the tiringly clever brittleness of a crossword puzzle, which, when it relents in the face of her emotional situation, collapses into bathos. |
| Stone, his voice tiringly big in this acoustic sang with conviction. |
| Every element, every assumption, every custom, every jot and tittle of the rule, no matter how long-standing and sacrosanct, became refreshingly suspect, tiringly suspect. |
| The list of Lees-Milne's male lovers, many of them well-known married public figures and most of them aristocratic, sometimes feels tiringly interminable. |
