Audrey Dubois’s Reviews > Doctor Zhivago > Status Update

"The object of the visit was exhausted. It was necessary to say something lively and unforced in farewell. A strained and unpleasant conversation began."

"Their arrival had been senseless, their further presence here was indecent."

"The sonata was known to be dull and forced, cerebral. It fulfilled expectations, and moreover proved to be terribly drawn out."

nobody writes tedium like Pasternak (complimentary)