Sentences with phrase «dull job»

Drafters of legislation can have rather dull jobs at times.

But he has moved to Bulgaria, where he has some sort of dull job with the U.S. Embassy.

Eliminating the dull jobs, plus the dirty and dangerous ones, has in fact been the point behind the entire history of technology.

Any journalist knows that transcribing conversations is the dullest job around, so it's hard to imagine anybody willing to do so on a large scale.

This is a small story on an archetypal small - town stage: waitress Jenna dreams of escaping her bad relationship and dull job.

She has a dull job as a bus tour guide and spends much of her time taking care of her ailing father.

Son David who has a dull job and whose girlfriend has left him, is played with hangdog poignancy by the usually funny SNL regular Will Forte.

Here was a superhero movie that dealt with some surprisingly adult situations (such as being stuck in traffic during your daily commute, working in a dull job, etc.) which probably explains why it was outshone at the box office by the likes of Shrek 2.

I could see the voice actors treating this as just another dull job as opposed to an exciting and entertaining performance.

Ed Orkin (Jeff Goldblum) is an insomniac with a cheating wife and a dull job.

Life at 55 (dull job, troubled marriage) for the former champion can't match the excitement of his past.

A favorite moment of mine came when Tom encountered a chunk of his office that had been transported to Hell, still full of workers tapping away at their keyboards like lethargic chimps, and commented that he was pretty sure they hadn't even realised anything had changed, such as the already Hellish nature of their dull jobs.

There is no reason to stay in a dull job, or one you don't enjoy.