repetitiousness

The repetitiousness of sports writing mars some of the on-court passages: Markovits's descriptions of the game have neither Updike's erotic charge in Rabbit, Run nor the fuller-throated late-Beat rhythms of Bob Levin's neglected classic The Best Ride to New York.

Playing Days by Benjamin Markovits 2010

For while the New York Times was critical of its repetitiousness and verbosity, and critics like Bergen Evans—who would later achieve fame as the question supervisor on The $64,000 Question on TV—found the “cumbrousness of his supernatural machinery” hard going, there was praise for the moral intent of the book, and also for its lyricism and humor.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

If these failed to produce the results sought, interrogators escalated to waterboarding, as was done to Abu Zubaydah "at least 83 times during August 2002" and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad 183 times in March 2003 -- so many times, in fact, that the repetitiousness of the act can only be considered convincing testimony to the seductive sadism of CIA-style torture.

Alfred W. McCoy: Confronting the CIA's Mind Maze 2009

But listening to the speakers as they followed each other to the microphone, I was struck by a repetitiousness which after a while seemed almost burlesque.

Jim Lampley: Patriotism vs. Ethnocentrism 2008

But the repetitiousness got on my nerves; cynicism set in.

Philocrites: March 2006 Archives 2006

But the repetitiousness got on my nerves; cynicism set in.

Philocrites: What more do you want? 2006

Some interesting plot touches, social insights, and deductive strokes lead up to a good surprise solution, but the excessive repetitiousness and laggardly pace put this one below the author's best.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

Some interesting plot touches, social insights, and deductive strokes lead up to a good surprise solution, but the excessive repetitiousness and laggardly pace put this one below the author's best.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

Still it's hard to argue with a bestseller: Clearly, for many, the action set pieces and re-search nuggets are sufficiently entertaining to justify the extraneous detail and repetitiousness.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

And the repetitiousness, despite Buñuel's fascination with it as technique and tenet, was often due more to neglect and carelessness on the part of French editors than to Buñuel's taste for oneiric games.

Bunuel's Voice Israel, Abigail 1984