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In a generation of wearingly nervy novelists, how many would have the nerve to write that?

He found these scenes wearingly monotonous.

But the main drawback here is the recording, which is wearingly thick, reverberant and lacking in dynamic range.

It's a nasty, guilty secret these days, almost too harsh to say out loud: many news reports about Sept. 11 and its aftermath have become wearingly familiar.

Their camera is directed more by affection than by drama, lingering wearingly on farm scenes, family get-togethers and finally the long, long auction.

Ever gliding her sinewy arms in undulating motion and whirling about in drop-dead turn-of-the-century dresses, Ms. Montevecchi is all extravagant excess, welcomely, then wearingly, so.

But in supporting his belief that "you can't talk to anybody about anything anymore without getting into trouble," he delivers some tedious broadsides against affirmative action, minority job quotas and, most wearingly, feminism.

The trail meandered along the mountain and then plunged steeply, wearingly downward, with never a sprig of grass for the horses, into a dead, skeletal ruin of pine and cedar.

A little of Sarah Schlesinger's and David Evans's no-brainer, popeyed writing (endless ecstasy, tortured hearts crying) and Mr. Evans's "Grease"-like music goes a wearingly long way.

More than half a century has passed since the then deputy leader tried to rally his beaten troops, yet the message seems wearingly similar to Labour's conclusions in 2010: voters were conned, the bankers are to blame, and when the electorate emerges from a telly-induced stupor, it will thank its lucky stars that the red team is still there with big-spending solutions.