These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?
Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.
I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.
Tedium is the bane of immortality.
I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
Beware of creating tedium!
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.