Sentences with phrase «by trudging»

The vast majority of legal research was still done as it long had been, by trudging to the law library and poring over hard - copy books.

Only by trudging forward and refusing to give up was I able to eventually reach the destination.

But while we all wait to see how that fight unfolds in «Captain America: Civil War,» moviegoers can get their fix sooner by trudging through the similarly themed «Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,» a disjointed mess of a movie that is occasionally exhilarating, but mostly disappointing.

It's easy for me to say this as I sit here dreading putting on my snowboots, since what better way to celebrate the first day of spring than by trudging through MORE SNOW?!

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While Kinect was viewed by many in the «hardcore» segment of the gaming population as a gimmick, Microsoft trudged on and tried to improve the sensor in the Xbox One.

It struck me, as I watched dozens of ticket holders get turned away from the oversubscribed event, that there was perhaps no better symbol of the speculative mania we've been witnessing in recent weeks than the sight of 70 would - be attendees sadly zip up their rain jackets, reverse course, and trudge home from an event that, not so long ago, would have been attended by few people.

When the Supreme Court hears this case I hope it will do the right thing and let Phelps and his family trudge off to their next protest unmolested by the long arm of government.

In the stiffly rugged heaviness of the shoes there is the accumulated tenacity of her slow trudge through the far - spreading and ever - uniform furrows of the field swept by a raw wind... [The shoes] are pervaded by uncomplaining worry as to the certainty of bread, the wordless joy of having once more withstood want, the trembling before the impending childbed and shivering at the surrounding menace of death.

In sub-Saharan Africa, it is small children missingschool for having to trudge through the family fields picking caterpillars off leaves, by hand, day after day.

No campus buses come by, and Vaughn is limping badly as he trudges uphill toward the lecture hall for his 80 - minute sociology class.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

So he has trudged on in the new world totally bewildered and without direction.New tribes have come along and pushed his team aside with ease By now he is too entrenched in his ways.

As it stands he gets flak because fans expect to have a world class ST at the tip of the team and we're trudging by with a substitute.

By the time they had reached a parking place inside the state fairgrounds and trudged through the dust of the carnival midway, with only one beer stop, and then reached their seats, the game was five minutes old.

Kane, who had hit six goals in four games coming in, was kept relatively quiet by a disciplined Swansea back - line, while Dele Alli was lucky to see team - mate Son Heung - min trudge off for Fernando Llorente late on after a particularly fruitless display.

A hapless Hazard trudged off after just 15 minutes with a groin problem, his struggles this season encapsulated by his 2,289 - minute goal drought with Chelsea.

I was paralyzed by fear, so I trudged through the months after he was born completely alone.

Legislators failed to adopt a state budget by June 30, the end of Connecticut's fiscal year, and negotiations are still trudging along.

The smaller shock was a Ukip poster unveiled in the morning by Nigel Farage which was eerily similar to Nazi propaganda, a picture of a huge crowd of displaced people trudging along an open road.

The plot trudges along weighed down not just by the stupidity of it all - half the plot points make no logical sense, like Lex Luthor supplying his henchmen with experimental military bullets - but by the apocalyptic self - seriousness of it all.

Beginning in 1858 somewhere in Texas, the film introduces us to Django (played by Jamie Foxx) while he's still un-unchained, trudging with a group of fellow slaves through the woods after being purchased at auction.

And so they trudge on, indifferently framed by Najafi's camera, which serves only to prove that a truly bad director doesn't need shaky handheld or rapid cuts to make incoherent action.

To the extent that as the movie trudged on, whenever some misfortune befell the boy, I found myself reminded of the notorious reactionary conservative cartoonist Al Capp's observation that by his lights, «Easy Rider» had a happy ending.

Fueled by the promise of a lucrative Hollywood engagement and the possibility of rekindling a relationship with his daughter, he trudges through a series of increasingly surreal and volatile encounters.»

It's a situation aided by taking off the «real D» glasses, though not entirely ameliorated because Marshall's an assclown and this fourth instalment in the exhausted franchise is composed almost entirely of groups of people trudging and swooping aerial shots of pirate ships.

For once, I'm not even bothered by the fact the concept's been done to death, or that there are only three scantily cobbled together stages to trudge through.

Leigh, meanwhile, explores Turner's life unburdened by any sense of purpose other than an intense, contagious fascination with this man, his work and, increasingly, the inevitable, slow, irresistible trudge towards death.We observe Turner's fondness for his elderly father; his sexual relationship with his meek housekeeper (Dorothy Atkinson); his rejection of his children and their mother; his arms - length acceptance by the lions of the Royal Academy; his late - life relationship with a Margate widow (Marion Bailey); and the mockery of the crowd when his work turns experimental.

This Week: Kevin trudges through the January releases by bemoaning more found footage nonsense with Devil's Due.

Towering above skyscrapers, stomping on cars, and lounging on buildings Ron Burgandy is joined by his faithful news crew as they trudge closer to their Christmas Day release.

by Walter Chaw The world's most polite heist / caper / con - man Charade thing, which feels it's finally time to continue that death trudge towards completion of a Matchstick Men trilogy, John Requa and Glenn Ficarra's Focus is a studiedly - inoffensive star vehicle for Will Smith that's interesting only because of Will Smith's casual attitude towards miscegenation.

The movie opens with our hero (played by Franco Nero) dragging a coffin behind him while trudging through the West.

After a long day at the Little Shop of Melancholy he trudges home to be greeted by his hypochondriac, alcoholic mother.

The film starts by offering a series of disparate stimuli: talk of Italian - German conflict during World War II, a group of young students, a mountainous Tuscan landscape clouded in fog, a solitary farmer trudging through thick brush, a shot of a beetle toppling itself over.

Who doesn't remember the massive march in New York City — thousands of children and parents trudging across the Brooklyn Bridge wearing T - shirts with slogans such as «My Child, My Choice,» all to protest the crackdown on charters by New York's new mayor?

Specifically, the diesel - powered TDI, once a darling of environmentalists and enthusiasts alike, has been shelved while VW trudges through the litigious swamp created by their emissions cheating scandal.

Their friends tried to bring back the old Ben, the live Ben, but were forced to make do with alcohol and nostalgia, trudging down the alleys of memory and avoiding the cross streets of today, which were guarded by a mute wall, a wall of no - comment.

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By Claire Kaufman, Environmental and Sustainability Program Manager On Wednesday, April 26, a motley group of scientists, university students, photographers, park service professionals, and GreaterGood.org staff came trudging back to reality.

There are some solid missions in there, with 1 mission involving Uzi wielding Ninja's and being fired upon by an Atomic Submarine and many other missions are fun, but they're almost all let down but terrible checkpoint placement often forcing you trudge back through piles of enemies again and again, along with this the spawning enemies grow frsutrating as they often spawn behind you in area's you've just cleaned out leading to some irritating fights.

In fact several missions deviated from this formula by making me trudge to several different locations all the way across the map from each other one after the other before finally getting to hit someone in the face with a stick.

You can now purchase a cat to fight side - by - side with you as you trudge through the quests in this game.

The scenery rolls by like rear projection as your host trudges westward, maintaining a contemplative pace (you can not set it to «grueling,» in a departure from Oregon Trail).

They will show their latest titles to more than 40,000 attendees and the whole thing will be broadcast, tweeted, reported and recorded by more than 4,000 journalists, all endlessly trudging the show floor.

Anyone who has seen the onlookers trudging passively through an art museum (all too often the Guggenheim ramp resembles the humane cattle slaughterhouses designed by Temple Grandin) can appreciate the achievement.

Bear in mind this is not an issue raised by skeptics, but by many reputable scientists who have trudged through the ice and snow and published peer - reviewed work which conclude that a great deal of the Arctic warming can be blamed on soot.

But our primary reaction is summed up this by these commenters at the WSJ Law Blog: 1) «[I] f you're pushing 70 and you really want to trudge in to the office every day there may be something wrong with you.

As always, Apple has created a phone whose specs aren't terribly impressive on paper — trudging along a year or two behind those offered by Android flagships — but offers a premium feel and robust performance that many of its rivals can't match.

We have to find a way to trudge through, sometimes licking our wounds alone, bewildered by what our child has said or done, and not feeling confident about what to do.