Sentences with phrase «from slogging»

Nelson Lakes, New Zealand - Just before lunch, my backpack starts to feel like I've stuffed a circus tent inside it, and my boots and socks are soaked from slogging through calf - deep streams.

Rachael Doornbos, a sustainable - systems student, went from slogging through trash at school to reading the riot act at home.

For legions of career - minded Boomers, work is far from a slog: in fact, it's enjoyable.

[6] Clarke, who declined Cameron's offer of the Leadership of the House of Commons, [7] explained that when Cameron asked him to become Shadow Business Secretary in 2009, the men agreed that he would serve in the cabinet for two years, and that «At my age, it is time for me to step back from the slog of running a large department, but I am delighted to have been given a more advisory political role».

Crafting your Gambits into killing machines then wandering through fields and slaying monsters can transition from a slog to a gleeful process.

Those terms of reference and important feedback from his slog around England and Wales to take soundings have plainly caused him to reconsider some of his early ideas.

Show (don't tell) the reader that you are capable of helping them lift themselves from the slog of this downtrend and into a robust, revenue - multiplying and profit expanding new place.

Existing - home sales in February rallied, bouncing back from a slog at the start of the year, the National Association of REALTORS ® (NAR) reports.

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«The main message, though, is that the exciting growth from the middle of 2016 up until the middle of 2017 is now truly in the past, and the economy is back to the drudgery of slogging out something closer to potential of around two per cent,» Porter wrote in a note to clients.

That time was spent slogging through long days of writing and reviewing new software and scrambling to keep frustrated customers from abandoning the site, which continued to suffer from occasional slowdowns and crashes.

Yes, stands appear indoors in the slog from November to April, but it isn't the same feeling.

It will call to you from the refrigerator while you fiddle with your stir - fry for dinner; it will entice you while you recline on the couch to watch your soap opera; it will torment you as you slog through another session on the treadmill; it will whisper to you while you lie in bed and think about what to write in tomorrow's blog post.

Wednesday night's slog notwithstanding, the Anthony Davis we're watching now is a little different than the one we remember from his breakout season.

It's easy to paint a road map to the league's demise — let's say, a critical mass of players leaves the sport because of health concerns, fans likewise lose interest in a sport they know is ruining men, and the game itself becomes a terrible slog to watch — but the end point may be several decades from now, well after the people who could have acted have sold out or died.

It's just been a tough slog for all three, whereas the Nationals were probably set up best to handle a rough season from one or two of them.

The players used to glide over the surface of the pitch, unbothered by such trifling concerns as the rules of physics; nowadays they slog, hard, as though the move from an arcade experience to one with pretensions toward simulation had sunk the footballers up to the knees in custard.

Following it, the entire group from California slogged through the mud again down to Mr. Fitz's command post.

All of this made the NBA season less a slog than a binge - watching delight with friends you know mainly from their avatars.

See, all I can say is that even if Arsenal manage to slog the League title from here on then it'll be a disgrace to football and the Premier League as we all know who have been the better teams and who have shown more desire and tenacity.

Helen from Actually Mummy said «Parenthood is... like a long hard slog up a mountain.

It is mud season in the Adirondack High Peaks, and state officials are urging hikers to protect trails from erosion by slogging through wet areas or simply sticking to lower elevations.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER As the State Senate slogged through its last scheduled day in its 2014 session, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) that shares majority power with the Republicans, voiced hope that a measure to bar mental health professionals from performing «sexual orientation change efforts» on minors could yet get a floor vote.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER As the State Senate slogged through its last scheduled day in its 2014 session, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) that shares majority power with the Republicans, voiced hope that a measure to bar mental health professionals from performing «sexual orientation change efforts» on minors could yet get a -LSB-...]

But it was always an uphill slog for Mr. Liu in an oddly - shaped eastern Queens district where Mr. Avella, despite his alienation from the political establishment, remains popular.

So far, Shapiro and Novak have amassed 88 passenger pigeon samples from museum collections, but it will be a long, hard slog to determine which genes distinguish a passenger pigeon from a rock pigeon, and what the genes do, Shapiro says.

Even as old charges from past arrests slogged through the legal system, Kumar's layers of protection grew.

But it will be a long, hard slog to determine which genes distinguish a passenger pigeon from a rock pigeon, and what the genes do, Shapiro says.

I wanted to dissociate from everything that had become part of the daily slog of my new, grown - up life, which often resulted in my feeling self - conscious, sluggish, and unbalanced on return from my time off.

Most of us slog through the 9 - 5 cycle and actually shy away from «really busy» work assignments.

While it boasts some of the richest, most believable character interactions in the series, and draws the game to a fairly satisfying conclusion, it's pacing suffers from the frequency of such events, and so the episode can feel like a bit of a slog to get through.

Minus ads, the complete series is a little over 16 hours long, and all the banter and whimsy should prevent a premiere - to - finale sprint from becoming a slog.

Two Irish actors (Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson) are required to don American accents and slog across changing scenery, from snowy peaks to simmering flatlands.

Apart from Black Panther, and the award nominated films, January and February have been slogs with not much in the way of laughs.

The directing is strong, and although choppy at times, it spares the viewer from what easily could have been a long, slow slog had the director taken this film too seriously.

The flabby screenplay moves at half - speed while undeveloped characters slog through predictable motions and forced quirkiness, all of which is trapped in an erratic tone that swerves from kookiness to uncomfortably somber.

But for all the heartbreak that pumps through it, Kenneth Lonergan's ambitious third feature isn't some miserable slog: Anchored by a career - best performance from Affleck, who achieves the herculean feat of making emotional unavailability compelling, Manchester By The Sea is often as flat - out funny as it is wrenching.

Suffering from pacing and monochromatic tonal issues — various types of drab torture for two hours — «Unbroken» is also overlong and eventually settles into a slog with little narrative drive.

It's an interesting moment because it reminds the contemporary viewer of a similarly insulting slideshow from Roberts's latest slog Mona Lisa Smile.

That's bad enough, but removed from all of that, the movie itself is a slog of repetitious melodrama, unconvincing performances (One suspects Allen went with the first take of each long shot), and over-the-top, neon - based mood lighting (provided by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro).

The central mystery is a straight - ahead, surprise - free slog (a bit similar to Chinatown, minus the sex and the story twists, though with the murder intact); the characters are familiar tropes, and the tone and imagery come courtesy of countless Westerns, from Sergio Leone to High Noon.

Parts of the game are still kind of fun to play through cooperatively with friends — though, unlike in the first game, you sometimes feel like you have to be playing in co-op to avoid being overwhelmed by awful infinite enemy spawns — but coming from the Dead Island, getting through Riptide mostly just felt like a slog that I wanted to be done with.

There are a few good action sequences to keep things interesting, including a nifty bit in which Lara finds herself dangling from the decaying remains of a crashed bomber straddling a raging waterfall, but by the time the film is deep into its second hour, the overall lack of intrigue and charm makes it feel like a long, heavy slog to the end credits.

The performances are stellar across the board, the story is compelling and emotional, the characters are real, and the humor that keeps the film from being a slog is never out of place.

Director Jaco Van Dormael has infused Mr. Nobody with an unapologetically arty and downright pretentious sensibility that's reflected in virtually every frame, as the far - from - linear storyline tracks the important events in Mr. Nobody's life - yet it's the emphasis on events that may never have even happened that's sure to infuriate certain viewers (ie if you're not willing to go with the premise almost immediately, Mr. Nobody will undoubtedly come off as a long slog indeed).

Fast Five, released a decade after the first movie, not only reinvigorates the series» commercial prospects, but accomplishes something far more vital: It saves the last five hours of my movie - watching from becoming a slog through mediocrity.

You can slog through all seven - plus hours of «Penny Dreadful» without getting a sense that Logan has any particular emotional involvement in or new ideas about these classic horror stories (the vampire hiding from the light, the manmade pariah feeling the sting of unrequited affection) beyond the underlying assumption that the world is a cold and lonesome place and it behoves us to take love and friendship where we can get it.

And wait we do; despite the lean ninety - minute runtime, Downrange can't quite figure out enough variations on their cat - and - mouse situation to keep the final two acts from devolving into a boring slog.

However, this section of the drama is far from a miserable slog.

But a good chunk in the middle is a little of a slog to get through once Vinny comes home from the surgery up until he decides to go against doctor's orders.