| This was Flaubert's first novel, a classic of 19th-century realism, marred only by the tiresomeness of Emma. |
| It's a plea for honesty – and an injunction against the unstinting tiresomeness of middle-class guilt. |
| The fainthearted ones frequently speak of their difficulties, their differences, and their tiresomeness of the work. |
| Or has his clownish, retro appeal swung too far the other way and plonked itself in the long grass of tiresomeness, like David Hasselhoff or any of the music played in Walkabout? |
| It's not just the tiresomeness of the narcissistic contestants that's the problem – you'd expect nothing less as many others have already pointed out – it's that the whole format is shot to pieces. |
| Chief among them, of course, is the tiresomeness of Julian's obsessive, if benevolent, racism. |
