Sentences with phrase «familiar rut»

It's here, around three years in, that our lead couple get stuck in a familiar rut.

But once Miguel finds his footing and sets on a quest to meet the spirit of his long - dead musical idol, who he has also come to believe is the faceless man in his great - grandmother's photos, the movie slips into a familiar rut and the scenery fades into the background.

Even as a barre instructor, I've experienced the all too familiar rut — or what I refer to as the «pro-plateau» — a point at which you find yourself in a routine of following a handful of circuits with the same barre moves.

Dunn and hubby Tom, freelance writers who both work from home, had fallen into a familiar rut: Tom wasn't doing his share of the house and childcare and Dunn got angry and resentful, bringing them almost to the point of no return.

There is a strange attraction in old, familiar ruts; only the new satisfactions of better, closer relating can keep you from backsliding.

«Every path, every steep hillside and grassy slope, every familiar rutted road has its memories of moments of insight when the solution, or at least a way forward for some problem that had been holding things up, suddenly became clear,» she wrote.

Not exact matches

Puzzle looks like a familiar but satisfying indie drama about a woman's identity crisis and the unconventional methods she goes to in order to get out of her rut and find value in her life.

«Malick's now familiar themes and experimentations are beginning to suggest that, like all of us humans, he is stuck in a rut he can't see or escape.»

The company is unapologetically nostalgic yet still strives to be novel, unique and original — and combining the old and familiar with the new and exciting is exactly what I needed to pull me out of my 2016 gaming rut.

It's easy to fall into a familiar and well - worn rut, and you could end up losing your shirt in the process.