Sentences with phrase «by tedium»

Factor in the later levels, particularly in the latter half of game where sometimes frustration is joined by tedium as you get to the eighth, ninth or tenth level in a set only to find a huge difficulty spike where you lose all your lives and then have to repeat all of the previous levels in the set numerous times just to get back to the point you keep dying at and you have a sometimes cruel experience that will appeal to some but could turn other players off.

The third person shooter aspects of the game aren't bad - not great, but not bad - but most of the fun is sucked out of it by the tedium of the strategy aspects of the gunfights.

It would be easy to imagine someone getting absolutely lost in a wave of dull - as - dirt harvesting quests and being subdued by tedium before getting to the exciting parts, and it doesn't help that most of the supporting systems like sending cats on expeditions (yes, really) or dealing with Scraps aren't intuitive or clear.

Witherspoon has proven herself a gifted comic actress in Election and last year's Legally Blonde, but her performance and charm here are largely diminished by the tedium of the material.

Otherwise, R.J. Stewart (Amazon High, Major League II) and James Vanderbilt's (Darkness Falls, Basic) is a series of spectacular sequences intercut by tedium.

Too much stoner shenanigans gets old quickly, a theory proven by the tedium we find here.

All that speculation about whether an early election might be in the offing has been replaced by the tedium of a five - year government - with all the related frustrations as it winds up.

The same principle is exhibited by the tedium arising from the unrelieved dominance of a fashion in art.

Not exact matches

While Carrie and the gang returned from Abu Dhabi to their failing marriages, stressful careers, complicated sex lives and the tedium of motherhood — all of which were miraculously resolved by the time the credits rolled — La Vie en Rose returned with a real fairy - tale ending.

Keegan, as English footballers are wont to do, had decided to alleviate the tedium of being a professional by writing himself a book.

What all the tedium brought Burnham was an intimate knowledge of the celestial sphere that was matched by few, if any, observers - at any level.

If you grow tired of the jogging, relieve the tedium by adding the beautiful scenery of nature.

Consider the premise: A pair of middle - aged guys, Rick and Fred (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis), are given a «hall pass» by their disenchanted wives to take a week off from the relative tedium of marriage and re-enter the alleged heaven of bachelorhood.

This lifeless, by - the - numbers production is an excruciating exercise in cliche and tedium.

The movie depicts the military's culture of intimidation and assault as global, not as an aberration that might be explained by the pressures of combat or the tedium of life on secluded posts.

Mad of eye and teased of hair, Olympias, played with nose - flaring gusto by Angelina Jolie, was the mother of all monstrous mothers, a literal snake charmer whose love for her only son had the stench of incestuous passion and the tedium of the perpetual nag.

The movie perfectly captures the feel of combat which I have heard described as long periods of tedium, broken up by sheer moments of terror.

One is struck instead by the gangsters» curious innocence, and by the normative tedium of their existence, from which Gorin manages to invent a texture whose complexity only unfolds itself over repeated viewings.

In other games travel such as this would be alleviated by a quick travel system, skipping this tedium.

Aloof to the servants» gossip about her — what she looks like when she dances, rides a horse, takes a bath — Miss Julie invites more wagging tongues by seducing her father's affianced valet John, seemingly more out of tedium than sexual desire.

That tedium isn't helped by the return of the largely passive RPG battle system.

The whole tiresome affair is accompanied for the duration by quite possibly the most inane narration in cinematic history, with Freddy interrupting the tedium every few minutes or so with gems like «every note has a voice, every tune has a story», or some guff about setting rats» tails on fire.

The Hateful Eight: The interminable tedium of the first half of the film is only matched by the second half's fervent hope that its bloody reckoning will have been worth the wait.

The tedium is interrupted by an unexpected tragedy, and the film briefly comes to life.

I'm really unsure whether or not people will feel that this sequel is better or worse than the first film, but I'm scoring it less for the simple reason of tedium induced by the combined ill - spirited momentum of both films.

EssayTagger is a web - based essay grading tool created by a teacher to alleviate some of the tedium of grading.

«A gothic tale in which moments of tedium are relieved by morbidity.»

The most recent version I have seen of the Amazon Kindle eliminates that tedium by letting you jump right to titles that begin with a certain letter when you are adding to a shelf.

The lengthy tedium inspired fond recollections of the at - odds pleasure we had experienced only a few days ago on the London Eye where we had enjoyed walking straight onto our own private pod by choosing to visit just prior to sunset.

Many people, myself included, were very disappointed with Final Fantasy XIII — the graphical work of art plagued by linearity and tedium to the point that I literally couldn't stand to play it due to boredom.

In other games travel such as this would be alleviated by a quick travel system, skipping this tedium.

Obviously, this can get a bit tedious, and Bungie has already begun playing with that tedium in D2 by introducing a variety of voice lines in which characters acknowledge that sense of, «Here we go again.»

Etrian Odyssey fixes this by making resource depletion an overwhelmingly greater concern than tedium.

There is some tedium that creeps in during some of the boss fights and with the length of levels, but this is outweighed by the game's sheer creativity and charm.

This turn - based test of tedium grinds away at the player's brain while they, in turn, grind on enemies for the sake of experience points and randomly dropped items, many of which can only be hand by beating difficult enemies and at a very low chance to drop.

They're tedium was probably best summed up by a level in which I was up against a fairly trivial group of penguin enemies who decided to take it in turns freezing me for 10 seconds at a turn, each time I got out of the freeze lock the next one was there to put me back in.

Whether prompted by an unforeseen attack which ruptures the tedium of a desert hump or the thrill of calling in an devastating airstrike on a quarrelsome encampment, Operation Flashpoint: Red River delivers the type of thrills absent from most first - person shooters.

Boss fights provided some relief from the tedium but they were separated by wave after predictable wave of enemies that rolled down the screen, doing little to challenge the player except get in the way.

Horizon: Zero Dawn did a great job of minimizing the tedium of grinding for items by allowing all craftable weapons to generate their own respective quest lines.

Some people complain that Saints Row has sort of breached the thin line between absurd and tedium: that Saints Row 2, was a great illustration of the limits of this very peculiar genre, because it was anchored just enough by a story line that seemed to try to take itself seriously, but everything surrounding it was so off the wall that it transcended the trappings of games like Grand Theft Auto... and that Saints Row 3 lost something but just running with that entirely...

Battle Chasers: Nightwar tackles the tedium of traditional JRPG turn - based combat by turning every fight into a tense interplay of meaningful tactics.

To escape the grinding tedium of daily life, 10 fictional characters adopt strategies which are portrayed in pictures filled with references to the kind of art banned by the regime.

He is the Metro Editor at Hyperallergic, and his articles on public art, artist documentaries, the tedium of art fairs, James Franco's obsession with Cindy Sherman, and other divisive issues been published there and by Artnet, The L Magazine, Modern Painters, Art + Auction, BKLYNR, and Brooklyn Magazine, among others.

The extremely influential symphony seems to mimic Klein's renowned Monochrome Paintings by creating a symphony tedium and silence.

They could have saved time by getting watts in and limiting the tedium.

AbacusLaw frees you from tedium and the chance of error by auto - filling forms.

Just as the pop - music album eventually will be replaced by individual track download sales — relieving both artist and listener of the tedium of all those «filler tracks» — I can see massive legal texts being replaced by specialized PDFed chapters that are, in effect, mini-books on very specific subjects.

I Drive Safely's Massachusetts defensive driving course was developed by a team of professional driving instructors and adult education professionals to maximize engagement and knowledge retention while reducing boredom and tedium.

Sometimes it's fun to get away from the tedium of writing resumes and cover letters by taking quizzes and surveys.