Sentences with phrase «from tedium»

Sometimes it's fun to get away from the tedium of writing resumes and cover letters by taking quizzes and surveys.

A resume focused on a specific target job, and built from the ground up with the customer's needs for that job in mind, will perform better in resume database searches, and will resonate far more effectively with recruiters, whose eyes are already glazed from the tedium of reading resumes.

Point the Pixel 2 XL's camera at a Wi - Fi password, and you can capture it, saving yourself from the tedium of data entry.

That said, there was a notable leap this week when Deloitte and Kira Systems announced an alliance «to bring the power of machine learning to the workplace, an innovation that could help free workers from the tedium of reviewing contracts and other documents.»

AbacusLaw frees you from tedium and the chance of error by auto - filling forms.

Boss fights provided some relief from the tedium but they were separated by wave after predictable wave of enemies that rolled down the screen, doing little to challenge the player except get in the way.

Myers does an outstanding job of re-creating the theater of war — from the tedium that breeds violence and vicious words among American comrades (black against white, black against black, white against white, and man against man), to the sudden shock, the pain, the confusion, and the stark terror that brings soliders face - to - face with their ideals, their religious beliefs, and their morality — in a world where a mother turns her child into a human bomb, an officer sends men into combat only to reap honors for himself.

Road fatalities drop, fuel efficiency improves, and drivers are saved from the tedium of... well... driving.

Your point that gifted sixth graders shouldn't be in discussions with «regular» sixth graders just highlights that the larger system is flawed, not that we need to separate out the gifted sixth graders to rescue them from the tedium of regular sixth grade discussions.

«I am afraid of what education is becoming: a machine to churn out disengaged, bored children who never get any respite from the tedium of testing and accountability,» says one teacher in their response to the survey.

The problem with Sleeping with Other People, aside from that tedium thing, is that its view of relationships is as appalling as its ear is tin.

The towns are similar in that stores all look the same and there are rarely any points of interest to detract from the tedium.

The experience breaks down, however, when you're hopelessly stuck on one of the more perplexing puzzles without the benefit of the titular narrator distracting you from the tedium of your aimless wandering.

They're fine and a nice break from the tedium of the plot, and the set up for the second chase is nicely timed (calling in assistance for an accident that hasn't happened yet).

Ahead of its release next week, a new trailer has arrived online for Swallows and Amazons, which stars Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, Kelly Macdonald, Jessica Hynes and Harry Enfield; check it out below after the official synopsis... Swallows and Amazons follows four children dreaming of escape from the tedium of a summer holiday in the Lake District with their mother.

StudioCanal has debuted a new clip has arrived online from Swallows and Amazons, which sees the Walker children setting off on their adventure; take a look below after the official synopsis... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Swallows and Amazons Swallows and Amazons follows four children dreaming of escape from the tedium of a summer holiday in -LSB-...]

The only real break from the tedium is an exceptional stand - alone sequence in which Lawrence, much to the alarm of dozens of watching scientists, transforms into the title character and embarks on a rampage of London; it's an exciting interlude that possesses precisely the sort of energy that's sorely missing from the remainder of the proceedings, although, to be fair, it's difficult not to get a kick out of Hugo Weaving's all - too - brief turn as a tenacious Scotland Yard inspector.

But in her drab surroundings, Antonietta has one touch of individuality; her pet mynah bird, which offers her some escape from the tedium of her otherwise arid existence.

Jean's laconic if purposeful manner as Julian makes him a charismatic oasis of cool in a world which is basically violent, frenzied, shouty and sweary: There's little depth of characterization, when everyone's simply seeking to gratify their urge for money, sex, drugs or or all three, as an escape from the tedium and the horror.

Apart from the tedium of waiting or someone to open that chest and discover the hidden body which the hosts have tucked away for the sake of a thrill, the unpunctuated flow of image becomes quite monotonous.

An open future leaves personal death and natural entropy untouched and fails to protect humanity from the tedium as well as the possible terror of history.

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While Carrie and the gang returned from Abu Dhabi to their failing marriages, stressful careers, complicated sex lives and the tedium of motherhood — all of which were miraculously resolved by the time the credits rolled — La Vie en Rose returned with a real fairy - tale ending.

A study from University College London suggested that those who complain of boredom are more likely to die young, and those who report high levels of tedium are much more likely to die from heart disease or stroke.

Like their contemporaries who had chosen to combine outside careers with the raising of children, they felt the attractions of using their minds and education in systematic, diligent ways; of possessing a sense of purpose independent from their husbands»; and of avoiding the tedium of housecleaning.

The same principle is exhibited by the tedium arising from the unrelieved dominance of a fashion in art.

That is the only way in which we have been offered relief from the dull tedium of politics as it is practised in Labour's leading circles.

Kent and Sandra wonder if the tedium their friends suffer from isn't partly due to a lack of close gazing and the inability to rekindle love.

Consider the premise: A pair of middle - aged guys, Rick and Fred (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis), are given a «hall pass» by their disenchanted wives to take a week off from the relative tedium of marriage and re-enter the alleged heaven of bachelorhood.

The once - terrifying creatures have now become as stale a horror sub-genre as zombies, with numerous films and television shows being churned out one after another, meaning it takes something truly phenomenal like The Walking Dead to emerge from the growing puddle of tedium.

One is struck instead by the gangsters» curious innocence, and by the normative tedium of their existence, from which Gorin manages to invent a texture whose complexity only unfolds itself over repeated viewings.

Walton Goggins does inject some life into the proceedings, playing an American archaeologist with lots of teeth and no scruples, but not enough to save the viewer from lengthy troughs of tedium.

It's like they've taken all the fun things from the previous X games and taken them out the back and had them shot and then replaced them with tedium and poorly designed systems.

In many respects, this was an episode about captivity — the captivity of Brody and Carrie, certainly, but also the viewers» release from the captivity of the quietly suffocating tedium of the previous episode.

But its thoroughly entertaining twists, fun spy gadgetry and mission to save the world rescue it from total tedium.

In the two hours of tedium, we can thrill to the exciting prospects of watching a couple of geniuses doing the most idiotic things possible in order to get away from law enforcement.

This presents Rockstar with the issue of solving the potential tedium of getting from point A to point B.

His moodier, more emotionally credible take on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban nearly single - handedly saved the entire film franchise from the excruciating tedium of Chris Columbus (to those who hate on the film but gush over the subsequent installments: is it not obvious how the later films ditched the static camera and homely reds and golds from Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets in favor of aping Cuarón's more haunting color palette and roving camera?).

For the overarching tedium at play, Refn still manages to wrestle strong performances from thinly written characters.

Such may be the case for children from middle - and upper - class homes, but for those whose families can't afford camp or other activities, summer is often a time of emptiness and tedium.

Though we tend to think of it as unpleasant but endurable and harmless tedium, some research now suggests boredom may be harmful to our health — it is potentially linked to everything from weight gain, to depression, to physical pain — even to cheating on one's spouse!

So once in a while why not set an early alarm, reclaim the road from the clutches of tedium and frustration, and rediscover driving as an inspiring source of freedom and pleasure that doesn't require major planning and a large map.

As autonomous cars take over the tedium of driving from humans, what will passengers do with their extra free time in the car?

Being an F1 fan struck me as an exercise in dissonance: a love of racing lost in a cascade of cash that glorified control and made the races themselves, apart from the wonderful noise, exercises in tedium.

It's hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or loss of interest, and the storyline becomes barren and desolate, insipidly dull, turning into a threadbare act with the same trite modus operandi.

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Getting 100 % went from something fun for the diehard fans, to a herculean task of tedium and dumb - luck.»

These sequences thrive more on tedium than challenge, and at best they're a distraction from the superior platforming.

Find enough evidence and they can eventually lead you to the monster itself and mark it on your map, which eliminates a lot of the tedium of past games and is especially appreciated due to the frequency of how much monsters flee from battle in World when wounded.

In contrast, reviewers from GamesRadar and Computer and Video Games appreciated the linear nature; the former stated that «the streamlined, focused structure eliminates potential tedium without dumbing anything down», [12] while the latter felt it was «a clever move», [111] and kept the player from being» [bogged] down with mundane number crunching, [and] finicky and repetitive leveling - up.»