1.  Director Robert Altman has threatened to waddle off to Europe, where tiresome meandering films are not only held in high esteem, but subsidized by the state.

2.  Does the ringing bell ever grow tiresome?

3.  Doing and saying funny things doesn't make tiresome people non-tiresome.

4.  Different from all the tired (and tiresome) love-on-the-rocks couples on "Oprah!" or "Donahue."

5.  Dumping Gatorade over the head of an unsuspecting coach has become a tiresome ritual in football.

6.  Director Brett Ratner's follow-up to the hugely successful "Rush Hour" is this tiresome, derivative fable.

7.  Elements that, in small doses, would ordinarily be welcome grew tiresome in repetition.

8.  Encounters with religious leaflet distributors have grown tiresome, too, Jacobs said.

9.  Enemies have called him a "gadfly," a "muckraker," a "prosecutorial zealot" and a "tiresome scold."

10.  Even Hollywood's imagined baddies are losing their old force: aliens have invaded with such tiresome frequency that they are no longer very alien.