Fatiguing

Adrienne never opened the _Officiel_, which Vaudrey received in his private office, pretending that the sight of a newspaper too vividly recalled the fatiguing political life that absorbed him. ❋ Jules Claretie (1876)

It's kind of fatiguing to think I'll be forty-three, but hey, if I don't practice, I'll still be forty-three! ❋ Holly (2007)

Don't we, a goodly number as we are, derive enough pleasure from our wine-bouts and plays that I should go in quest of such kind of fatiguing recreation! ❋ Xueqin Cao (N/A)

They have, moreover, this remarkable hygienic quality, that they can be drunk in large quantity without, as the French say, "fatiguing" either head or stomach. ❋ Philip E. Muskett (N/A)

There thoughts, sentiments, opinions, feelings, actions too, are nothing but agitation in empty space -- to amuse life -- a sort of superior debauchery, exciting and fatiguing, meaning nothing, leading nowhere. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)

It's the opposite of 'fatiguing'; you build up charges through your own obsession, what you WANT to do whenever possible, avoiding the taboos that dilute or counter your hardened, mad perspective on the world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"When we stress the muscle a bit though, such as fatiguing it, there are some hints toward functional impairment, but overall the muscle has coped well, functionally anyways." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Don’t we, a goodly number as we are, derive enough pleasure from our wine-bouts and plays that I should go in quest of such kind of fatiguing recreation! ❋ Unknown (2003)

I had sufficient leisure for these and many other reflections during my journey to Ingolstadt, which was long and fatiguing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The NTSB ultimately did not find that the controller was at fault in the crash, but was concerned enough to issue recommendations to the FAA and the NATCA urging that they adopt less fatiguing schedules. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The voyage down the creek was “tedious & very fatiguing,” several times the party nearly foundered on rocks, and many times all hands had to get out and wade in the water half an hour or more to get over the shoals. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

I would not want to actually write with an IPad for protracted periods of time, personally – touch screens are fatiguing after a while. because you have to be certain where your fingertips are going all the time, whereas I can type on a keyboard with my eyes shut. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That number also included a fatiguing 58 pass attempts, which is also a season high for the Giants and 44% more than you'd see in a typical game. ❋ Reed Albergotti (2012)

Snyder again noted that Ike had endured “a fatiguing experience” in Tacoma. ❋ David A. Nichols (2011)

It's relentless, continually witty and full of precision and detail – so much so that it almost becomes fatiguing before the film has reached its climax. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This may be a band forever destined to bemoan the universe - something that's made Radiohead's music more and more fatiguing since it issued its twin masterpieces, 1997's "OK Computer" and 2000's "Kid A." ❋ Unknown (2011)

For a slightly different, and perhaps less fatiguing, perspective I came of age in a generation where the reason your family slaved away making widgets, or eyeliner, was so you could retire a poet, not make better widgets, I visited across the room with William Thomson , Carnegie's great-grandson. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)