Tonight's game, which lasted more than three hours, was filled with defensive lapses, pointless fisticuffs, tedious arguments and frequent episodes of what players call "chippiness" before 10,223 fans.

As far as Salander could tell through the wall, it was one repetitive, tedious argument.

Fine, I'll grant him the 'moral perspective' - just avoid a long, tedious argument about the role of the family.

I have been worn down by the tedious arguments.

Very nearly slammed her fist on the table and launched into the ancient and terminally tedious arguments of the left.

T. S. Eliot reads "Prufrock," of course, in the voice of a "tedious argument."

Whatever the backstage controversies the programme exposed, it also revealed the true glamour and excitement of an opera house's work, which has nothing to do with tedious arguments about elitism.

He had car- ried his point without tedious argument.

There followed what seemed to Goniface a pointless and tedious argument with the ghost of Brother Jomald.

When we left off, the sheet was going over some tedious and ill-argued theological arguments against birth control.