Sentences with phrase «most of us slog»

Most of us slog through the 9 - 5 cycle and actually shy away from «really busy» work assignments.

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The «confined, ritualistic nature of the White House beat makes it a difficult slog for even the most adversarial reporter,» he says, and with dozens of journalists jockeying for the same stories, very little unique coverage emerges.

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

Take the Seahawks game as an example: while Chris Johnson slogged for 2.3 yards per carry on 25 totes, Ellington made the most of his opportunities and rushed for 61 yards on five carries, including the back - breaking 48 - yard touchdown run with 2:07 remaining.

In Austin, while most of the other visiting teams stayed in hotels, the Bowie team had to sleep on Army cots set up beneath the stands of Memorial Stadium, the football field on the Texas campus, and to make the long slog across the field to the Longhorns» field house to use the bathroom.

These are the dog days of summer, when out - of - contention teams slog through the schedule and even some of the most devoted fans are forced to abandon their heroes.

«To create an overall plan that you're going to be able to get consensus on is not impossible, but it's a real slog and what I think is happening now with the Council is we are taking the temperature of members on the most important changes that need to happen to get broad support when this comes up for a vote.»

Insurance salesman Dodge Petersen (Carell at his most downcast) continues to slog to the office and gym; Elsa (Tonita Castro), his housekeeper, keeps showing up to clean; his married friends (Rob Corddry and Connie Britton) throw dinner parties that have all the end - of - the - world abandon of an aborted swingers confab circa 1982; and so on.

Most of her scenes slog along with talk of the IPO and finances.

All of which is to say that even for the most open minds, Game of Thrones can be a big stein of groggy slog.

While it boasts some of the richest, most believable character interactions in the series, and draws the game to a fairly satisfying conclusion, it's pacing suffers from the frequency of such events, and so the episode can feel like a bit of a slog to get through.

Of course, you can always substantially lower the time investment in your career if you want to avoid the slog and unlock things faster, as a subset of the general settings specific to Career Mode allows you to skip most of the real - life work involved in actual racinOf course, you can always substantially lower the time investment in your career if you want to avoid the slog and unlock things faster, as a subset of the general settings specific to Career Mode allows you to skip most of the real - life work involved in actual racinof the general settings specific to Career Mode allows you to skip most of the real - life work involved in actual racinof the real - life work involved in actual racing.

Though patience be a virtue, and adversity an exercise in building character, it is only the most masochistic who will find the slog through the dreck of this flick worth any reward to be found.

The serious joggers who slog relentlessly between the renovated piers peppered along the shoreline of San Francisco Bay have to be among the most insular people on earth.

Partly this is because I feel like I've earned it after yesterday's slog through the traffic, but also because, of the three cars present, the Audi is the most compelling sight.

For while writing is one of the most rewarding pursuits in the world, publishing can be a long, slow, painful slog toward the pit of despair, and you can quickly find yourself in the soul sucking land of Major Disappointment.

But one of the illusions most common to writers — an illusion that may make the long slow slog of writing possible, for many people — is that an enormous audience is out there waiting for the wisdom and delight that I alone can provide, and that the Publishing System is a giant obstacle to my reaching those people.

Most top bloggers have spent years slogging away before they've achieved any level of success.

Waving goodbye to January and February tends to be a fond rather than a sad farewell for most of us — the worst bit of the winter slog is nearly over and spring is just around the corner.

I slogged around the whole of the ExCel Centre meeting most of the countries of the world and I was so surprised how «inaccessible» they could be for travel bloggers.

I found it boring for the most part and a bit of a slog.

Lost Planet 2 promised to deliver a high - octane cooperative thrill ride through the hostile world of EDN3 - but a host of godawful problems and niggles make it a truly miserable slog most of the time.

Now, however, mapping has an extra reward in that successfully drawing most of a floor will unlock teleportation points — Floor Jumps — which makes grinding an optional pleasure as opposed to forcing us to slog back to town.

It's a funny game — forgoing the fast - paced action and competition of most Game Boy offerings, it's a long, slow slog toward the Indigo Plateau and the final rivals you must defeat.

The result is a unique RPG that should be a treat for fans of the genre who need a break from the endless orc - killing and dungeon - slogging inherent in most RPGs and that is one of the top RPG games available on the current generation of home systems.

Most enemies outside of the bog - standard ants are a slog to kill, and despite the large arsenal of weapons, only a handful feel particularly effective.

However, it can still feel a bit too repetitive and we found most of our enjoyment came from a quick mission or two rather than slogging through many at a time.

But, as challenging as these trials can be, most of the fun will be sapped from the game once you've solved the puzzles the first time, so all you are left with is a patience - trying slog.

The outlandish set pieces and comedy cinematics are excellent, but they're only modest rewards for slogging through the action and platforming that make up most of the game.

But it seems to me that he's assuming that in America, at least, policy about this can simply be set a bit more like the Soviets would have set it, via authoritarian measures taken by the few, and a bit less like what seems to me to be the only option for progress: the hard slog of civic debate, inherently involving the citizenry, even in cases when most citizens already agree on the basic facts.

You don't have to slog through 12,000 abstracts (twice) like we did, just make a list (hint, ask Poptech) of the most prolific contrarians and search for their papers.

Now, some two months after the fateful referendum on EU membership, some of the initial conflicting feelings of euphoria and dismay seem to have abated somewhat, as most people come to terms with the prospect of a long slog of negotiations on «exit» for the UK, whatever the outcome of that may prove to be, and whatever both» negotiation» and «United Kingdom» (rather, Disunited Kingdom) may now mean.

There have been a lot of apps that have come out to try to make slogging through your inbox easier, but perhaps most of all Smart Reply reminds me of TL; DR, a little app from one of the co-founders of the now - defunct Android launcher Everything.me, which also set out to make email more like messaging by shortening the steps it took to reply to messages by offering suggestions of how to reply.