Sentences with phrase «by tedious»

Instead of being diverted by the tedious trolls here, why not read the actual story behind all this on WUWT?

You see what I mean by tedious detail and complexity?

The catalogue illustrations are accompanied by tedious descriptive text written by Lehman's son; «the virgin has golden - brown hair» or «the electrical tape and feathers.

The original Gravity Rush for the Vita was a fun quirky little game let down by tedious combat, a hectic hodgepodge of a story, and a terrible forced motion control system.

The PlayStation 4 is also able to provide drastically improved visuals producing a beautiful paper crafted world.Unfortunately Tearaway Unfolded is still plagued by tedious combat situations and a poor camera.

To the contrary, No Child Left Behind has allowed the joyful process of learning to be supplanted by tedious test preparation.

this has now been replaced by tedious on screen standardisations, whilst this will have saved the exam board money it did not help me understand what exactly was required.

Filmmaker Francis Lawrence, in attempting to expand Suzanne Collins» novel into two features, employs an aggressively lethargic pace that's compounded by a tedious, uneventful opening hour, with the movie's first half comprised almost entirely of sequences in which characters plot their next move.

Or perhaps it's merely a question of context: While the O Brother score lifts up the movie it accompanies, the Ladykillers» is dragged down by the tedious mess to which it finds itself shackled.

However, the typically brilliant filmmaking techniques of Tarantino are stifled by the tedious plot.

But those rare moments are separated by tedious songs and far too many close - ups of Ariel laughing, laughing, laughing.

All growling engines and exploding chassis, every minute is underscored by a tedious and repetitive soundtrack.

And not just when the camera throws you off a cliff, or when your progress is stalled by another tedious, three - strikes - and - out trivia quiz, or when the belligerent checkpoint system respawns you on the opposite side of the map from your current challenge should you dare to die.

These idiots are so brainwashed by tedious celebrities and magazine editors who advocate caramel bobs, jersey wrap dresses, nude court shoes and toned down shite that the minute they encounter anyone in the remotest bit interesting their brains go into meltdown.

Food journaling is a proven way to help people lose weight and keep it off, but many people feel overly burdened by the tedious process of logging everything they eat or drink.

Why you should care: This feud has been goofy fun, followed by tedious goofiness, followed by hilariously goofy fun.

Mistakes are intensified by the tedious psychodramas of Mourinho's public presence, magnified by the size of the club, and cast in an unflattering light by Manchester City, who may have conceded the same number but seem to have had a lot more fun doing it.

«The book seems to be merely a prosy detail of imaginary history, with the Old Testament for a model; followed by a tedious plagiarism of the New Testament.

Not exact matches

For a long time, their game was so clunky and tedious that the staff would reward themselves by playing DotA after play - testing League of Legends.

Avoid tedious, time - consuming specifics in the early stages by replacing paper contracts with actual pumpkins.

By doing so, employees were freed of tedious work.

Flexible paid time - off policies simplify HCM by eliminating the tedious process of calculating vacation accrual and tracking employee absences.

I will definitely check out Personal Capital — it looks like it has some features that aren't offered by my current programs of choice: YNAB4 (which I like a whole lot for budgeting), Mint.com (which I'm not a huge fan of but it serves a purpose), and the Morningstar Portfolio Manager (which is good but tedious to enter in data manually)... and of course my Excel spreadsheets, which you'll have to pry from my cold, dead fingers.

The best link building tools are made by link builders, because they know which phases of the process are a bit tedious.

It's true that they can be tedious and time consuming, but by now most content marketers know that they are absolutely necessary for driving website success.

As such, by limiting the currently available data as contained within the new law would make harder the already tedious «sifting through often - byzantine layers of shell companies and nominee shareholders to identify the true owners of certain assets,» and the ability for third parties to add information to the public sphere and marketplace of ideas is unnecessarily curtailed.

The conservative opposition found the passion of his condom advocacy not only thoroughly objectionable but medically unsound; his apocalyptic predictions regarding the spread of AIDS (by 1999, he claimed, one out of every four people around the globe would have the virus) became increasingly tedious and incrementally unbelievable.

Very true, although I'm surprised that more people aren't disillusioned by the two party system, but I just find politics tedious.

At one point in The Greatest Show on Earth, he records — at somewhat tedious length — the transcript of an interview he gave to a not very well - informed antievolutionist by the name of Wendy Wright.

It is followed by an attack on Playboy magazine, which I called «antisexual,» that drew me into a furious (at first) and later tedious debate with that magazine's publisher.

Tea is transported by donkey and horse caravans to neighboring countries over a difficult and tedious route which serves as a channel of trade on the return journeys.

It is tedious when a speaker begins by protesting modestly that he is inadequate to the task before him, or that he is the last person who should have been asked to discuss the theme of his address.

The existing patterns of physical feeling in my brain cells have to be deflected repeatedly by fresh novelty — now this way, now that way, in a tedious sequence of trial - and - error, before these tiny bodily societies learn the new patterns which enable them to respond to my aims to type.

After acrimonious arguments about the judges and about the reporting of the debate; after a tedious procession to church, a new twelve - part Mass, and a long droned out and largely inaudible introduction by a local academic, the debate finally got under way on 27 July between Eck and Karlstadt in the great hall of the Pleissenburg Castle.

There was a time in American life, not so very long ago, when the only significant relation between religion and popular culture seemed to be the tedious symbiosis enjoyed by such envelope - pushing television producers as Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley and the conservative Christians who loved to....

I applaud people who have chosen that path and stick to it, and I must say I find it intensely tedious to listen to those cynical «vegan - bashers» who think they are amusing as they snark away at vegans without having any idea why they are even doing so, other than being threatened by something they don't understand, or by some vague aversion they have to any spiritual - sounding practice or «liberal - hippie - sounding» philosophy.

After a rather tedious drive half way round the busy and exhaust - scented M25, followed by a short straight line on the M23, I left the motorway and stepped into another dimension, or so it seemed.

«Biscotti» means «twice - baked», but don't be put off by its Italian name nor its seemingly tedious definition.

It's quite hard to knead by hand, and very tedious, so I use my breadmaker.

Though somewhat tedious, this by far resulted in a smoother cookie dough.

Preparing breaded food products by hand is tedious, inconsistent, and costly.

Fresh Fare With Plated.com, epicureans can skip complicated meal - planning and tedious grocery shopping to focus on 30 minutes of cooking followed by indulgent eating.

The «Go Texan» promotion of the Texas Department of Agriculture has listings of most Texas food producers, but they are listed by city and town, which makes searching rather tedious.

Nineteen minutes from time and with the real tension being felt in the cold March air in the impressive Mercedes Benz - Arena Daniel Schwaab was unfortunate not to end the suffering for those compelled to watch what was becoming a tedious encounter when he was thwarted by Kraft as the Huub Stevens men sought a much needed goal.

The tedious job was probably made a little better by the super-efficient strategy used, with 16 stacks of 11 books positioned around a table.

Lealao has been pursued by colleges since his sophomore season, but has not allowed the process to become tedious.

Are we suggesting that the tedious cycle of awarding yardage to the other team for personal foul penalties by the other team, instead of putting the burden on the player, is a boring thing to watch?

Sober, industrious and otherwise well - adjusted men have been known to fall into gargling, sputtering rages as, sitting helplessly before their TV sets, they feel themselves assaulted by Allen's tedious, drawn - out explanations («For the benefit of those not so familiar with the game, the infield fly rule states that, with first and second base or first, second and third occupied and less than two out, a ball which in the judgment of the umpire,» etc..

It's fine but it does get old quickly on the broadcast, and is definitely tedious by the weekend.

Can somebody also tell me, why we are playing a tedious, frustrating game regarding the aubamayeng transfer when (by my reckoning) we have made 48 million in transfers over the last two windows so far???... and we are reluctant to pay a reported 55 mil?