Sentences with phrase «from humdrum»

Couples counseling can help you rejuvenate playful energy and break away from humdrum interactions.

The sandy beaches, warm clear water and vibrant marine life all add up to a wonderful travel break from the humdrum of everyday life.

With detailed advice on cultural offerings in New York, Paris, San Francisco, Berlin, and more, Travel + Leisure elevates your itinerary from humdrum to heavenly.

A spark ignites in your soul as you move away from the humdrum of the city into Vasundhara Sarovar Premiere, one of the best resorts in Vayalar.

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Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries.

Collective nouns for animals range from the humdrum and vaguely familiar («a pack of wolves» and «a string of ponies») to the colorful, off - the - wall, and hard to believe someone's not just making these things up («a bouquet of pheasants,» «a mischief of rats,» and «an intrusion of roaches»).

OmmWriter emerged as an internal tool to help transport us away from the humdrum noise; allowing us to be at one with ourselves and our ideas.

But with a five - door body from the humdrum Focus, the new RS is more reserved than the previous model from six years ago.

BMW, Jag and Volvo deliver their everyday superheroes, sent to save the compact SUV from humdrum oblivion

Set in the midst of the Great Depression, Allen shows in his film just what going to the movies means to those undergoing financial and emotional hardships, allowing them avenues of escape from their humdrum lives, even if only for the few hours that the films actually screen.

That is, it pivoted away from the humdrum third act beat down to find something much more personal and intimate.

Recommendation: Though it starts sluggish and takes its time to evolve from humdrum human drama into full - fledged, in - your - face bloody action, the back nine of this film is absolutely worth the wait.

Wringing subtle wit and hard - won honesty from humdrum life has become something of a trademark in the work of Frank V. Ross, a perennially under - appreciated talent of American independent cinema.

Even the trailer doesn't give much away — a young woman comes into possession of a metal badge which transports her from the humdrum normality of middle America into some kind of fantasy world.

Since 1992, HomeExchange has given thousands of people the opportunity to escape from the humdrum of everyday life and experience a new city from the comfort of a real home.

A few years ago, Snyder's team and other researchers found that if NO reacts with GAPDH, GAPDH can then bind to another protein that whisks GAPDH away from its humdrum sugar metabolism tasks and into the nucleus, the cell's control center.

We'll get more output per labor unit, forever liberating people from humdrum drudgery.

Treat your eyes to the gorgeous snow clad mountain peaks visible through the hotel and give your mind a much - deserved break from the humdrums of city life.

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As more consumers turn away from car ownership, the shift has produced a lot of humdrum offerings from places like Zipcar and Enterprise CarShare.

Thus, in 1839 Richard Wagner makes a hasty escape from political intrigue, personal bankruptcy, and the humdrum of provincial life in Riga, again by sea; and it is this nautical misadventure that was to inspire his Flying Dutchman and, ironically, lay the foundations for his eventual success as a composer.

One of these blue holes, half a mile from the southwest end of the reef, holds the vital parts of a mysterious ship — a vessel that attracts because so much is known about it and yet so little; its main cargo could have been gold and silver or merely a humdrum lading of cheap goods.

In recent years, most defeated Prime Ministers have walked away from frontline politics altogether, with few willing to descend to humdrum of Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet.

When first an MP, he shared an office with James Purnell, who now prefers BBC digital policy to the humdrum world of Labour politics, and seems on a trajectory to end up appropriating ideas from Meacher.

We tune in to be reminded of what CSI, House, and the rest will never remind us: how easily and thoroughly any humdrum human existence can be transformed if you wrest your attention from the tawdry Technicolor scenery of life and train it instead upon the murk and gloom and the shadows that surround us.

Yet all these activities seem humdrum compared with what happened during the Third Intermediate Period, from approximately 1075 to 656 B.C. With startling suddenness, mummification went mainstream.

If your sweater collection is feeling a little humdrum, this mock - neck from Derek Lam has a very cool lace - up detail.

I am a lovely distraction from the troubles of a boring everyday humdrum.

A documentary about trans women in Puerto Rico, Mala Mala offers viewers both the glitz and the humdrum from a variety of colorful yet human characters, from Ivana Fred, a politically - minded woman who spends her evenings passing out condoms to sex workers, to Sandy Rivera, a sex worker with a loving cisgender boyfriend.

Rushed into production at Columbia Pictures to capitalize on the success of Jaws, another seafaring adventure based on a Peter Benchley novel, The Deep has a humdrum story, generally uncommitted performances, and a phoney Moray eel (nicknamed «Percy» on set) that gives the much - maligned mechanical shark «Bruce» from Jaws a run for its money in the department of unconvincing animal attacks.

Claire (Tina Fey) and Phil Foster (Steve Carell) are an average boring married couple from New Jersey with two young kids and a home and sex life that have become routine and humdrum.

A tale of three border guards on a day when things take an unexpected turn from the usual humdrum of a day in the desert, Transpecos is a hugely accomplished debut by Austin - based director Greg Kwedar.

It features an origin story of the titular hero and then quickly cuts into a plot about stopping a megalomaniac from taking over the world for nefarious but unclear reasons (Although it might be good enough reason for someone to climb a mountain, «Because it's there» is about as dramatically humdrum a motivation for world conquest as they come).

Images become the very poetry the humdrum and confusing, if functional and cohesive, story seeks, especially in juxtapositions of Hong Kong's neon and concrete jungles and the transitional title credits, so fragile that they crumble from the faintest touch.

Ripping off scenes entire from sources as varied though familiar as Scream, Pet Sematary, and Tenebre, The Pool is teeth - setting in its humdrum prudishness and narrative predictability.

Worse yet, there's so little inspiration, and even less attention to detail, to this newest incarnation of Bond's iconography that it becomes difficult to parse the genuinely intriguing stuff from the grisly humdrum of it all.

Universal Pictures passed out an edict forbidding reviewing press from revealing nearly any of the humdrum «twists» of the film, which is actually something of a relief — I'd just as soon not waste time picking apart its desperate machinations.

Joining the video is a surprisingly tame DD 5.1 track; of course, the song selections are so banal that they wouldn't give the speakers a workout under the best conditions, but aside from some decent low - end for the sci - fi components, the mix is as humdrum as the movie itself — although the audio on the DVD is without any serious defects.

Written and directed by Gilliam, this tedious piece about elderly accountants becoming pirates is a deadly way to open the show, and the skits that follow range from hilarious to humdrum.

Arriving at just around the moment when the Star Wars revival threatens to switch over from big - ticket sci - fi / fantasy event to humdrum annual clock - in, Rian Johnson's middle chapter appears blithely and wonderfully unconcerned with paying off the supposed mysteries of its predecessor or setting up a grand finale.

And I'm puzzled why Lord Balcairn's kamikaze final Mr. Chatterbox installment was altered from the book's vision of the English aristocracy throwing down its jewels in a born - again frenzy to a more humdrum orgy.

Aside from discreet badging on the grille and boot lid, plus a pair of overly large oval tailpipes, the SEAT is virtually identical to more humdrum versions of the hatchback.

In fact, it would not be wrong to call the 2016 Honda Civic an entirely new car, a much - needed directional change from the previous humdrum Civic generation.

In the humdrum of daily driving — or the hustle and bustle of New York City, for that matter — it's refreshing to spend time in a car that allows you to escape from all that.

The bright blue paint, unusual for a humdrum family sedan, was the only exterior feature that elicited commentary from anyone.

8,300 customers a day are downloading the Harry Potter audiobooks and popping in their earbuds to magically transform humdrum train commutes into rides aboard the Hogwarts Express, leisurely jogs into a frantic escapes from Dementors, and the muggle chore of sweeping the kitchen floor into the Quidditch World Cup.

His blond and sensible wife had an unpredictable streak that kept the issues of life from settling into humdrum patterns.

When I was in my pajamas, I raised the shade again so I could get the maximum benefit from the experience, lying straight as a mummy in my little coffin - bed of rebirth, hurtling through one town after another where people steeped like old tea bags in their humdrum lives, speeding farther away by the minute from Earl - dom and all the other bottlenecks I had narrowly squeezed through.

When you get away to the Sunshine Coast you get away from the everyday humdrum — so make the most of it and go exploring everything this fantastic Queensland destination has waiting for you.

Such future games as might attain to this title could come from anywhere in the world — they are as likely to come from Chile as from Europe and the United States, where commercial pressures make storytelling in games take rather humdrum and conventional paths, more influenced by Hollywood action movies than anything else.