1.   COMPANY annual meetings are invariably tedious affairs.

2.   Pre-series meetings are often tedious affairs at which players are expected to consume large amounts of data in a short time.

3.   The most dramatic disparity between these two teams in this tedious affair could be found in the John Elway vs. Chris Chandler matchup.

4.   Thomas spends the remainder of this tedious affair chewing up scenery and stomping all over the best intentions of the solid Strauss and Frances Sternhagen as her live-in mother-in-law.

5.   Yet for four days this tedious affair inexplicably droned on.