rigmarole

“This is a most rigmarole letter, for after each sentence, I take breath[…]”

“"This officer has ended at last," said the Prime Minister. "Another story of calamity, and told in a very rigmarole way, I must confess; but he never can shorten his reports by only inserting the weighty matter. 'Reports annexed,' indeed!—yes, six of them; and underneath sixteen other reports—all, no doubt, much in the same strain."”

“Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?”

“If you are alluding to Dostoevski’s worst novels, then, indeed, I dislike intensely The Karamazov Brothers and the ghastly Crime and Punishment rigmarole.”

“Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.”