And then there is everything else, the dirty, sweaty, unglamorous and frequently tedious work of being infantrymen.

With teams often content to dribble out the clock, keeping scores low and games frequently tedious, Danny Biasone, the owner of the Syracuse Nationals, proposed a 24-second time limit for teams to attempt a shot.

I don't for a minute believe that financial success contradicts negative critical judgment; $500 million from now, "Dead Man's Chest" will still be, in my estimation, occasionally amusing, frequently tedious and entirely too long.

The job of school board members is unsalaried, complex and frequently tedious.

Had it been written by anyone else, "Moonwalk" (the title refers to the stepping-forward-but-sliding-backward dance step that has become Mr. Jackson's signature stage movement) could be dismissed as an assiduously unrevealing, frequently tedious document.

Its exposition is frequently tedious and it has an overplus of trivial observations.

Born in Maryland and educated in England, Cooke had his flirtation with fame in 1708 when he brought out an occasionally clever, frequently tedious Hudibrastic poem called "The Sot-Weed Factor."

Mr. Volpe's gala will be as long and as uneven, as occasionally exciting and frequently tedious, as such galas generally are.

Ken Tucker, of The New York Times, stated that if the book had been written by anyone else, it would be dismissed as "an assiduously unrevealing, frequently tedious document."