Tony Scott of "Variety" called a predictable film with "relentlessly tiring (and tiresome) excesses". In Buchwald's later years, his detractors characterized the column as hackneyed, tiresome and not funny. Tasha Robinson initially found the interactions between the wolves to be tiresome and repetitive. He repeated this to me so frequently that it became a trifle tiresome. "The New York Times" review called the book's humor tiresome and banal. Rita Kempley of "The Washington Post" called it "insipid, tiresome and full of gross kids". It is not, however, so crushingly tiresome as the music fitted to it. Raina begins to find Sergius both foolhardy and tiresome, but she hides it. Grissom, however, initially seemed to find Greg's bouncy attitude and loud music tiresome. What many don't realize is that working in this field is tiresome. But even he found them a tiresome imposition. I found "Karawane" a bit tiresome. He mentions how he does have one more tiresome detail to deal with. James Huneker also found this set "a little tiresome". The game can grow tiresome after multiple plays.