Sentences with phrase «from tiresome»

Imagine coming home from a tiresome board meeting where your acquaintances haven't spared a single chance to piss you off.

I must say that I've never been introduced to arcade - style racing like this before — unless you consider Midnight Club 2 arcade - style — but Burnout 3 is a fresh departure from the tiresome racing genre which has lately put more emphasis on spiffy graphics and realistic gameplay than fun game mechanics.

Around town, aside from the tiresome clutch action that will make you avoid traffic jams at all costs, the X3 did quite well.

This focus on organ - izational behavior, embedded in local political economies, is a refreshing break from the tiresome tracts that simply reiterate faith in market competition.

The screenplay drones on as the characters make awful decisions with their lives, with Allen failing to build a sinister connection that elevates the experience away from tiresome bickering.

A decent character study whose main strength lies in two great performances by Foster and Harrelson, who shine in a sad story that deals with the psychological consequences of a terrible job, but the film also suffers from some tiresome pacing and unnecessary scenes.

Not exact matches

A tiresome lie, MJ: Jesus of Nazareth being from Bethlehem, and not Nazareth, is hopefully enough of a clue to start some doubt.

It is possible to appreciate Hill's deep commitment to affirming the inherent value of words while finding somewhat tiresome his extended excursions into etymological and philological aspects of English public writing from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

-- even the tiresome old Dean of the Faculty took on a slightly roseate hue from a distance.

I always make cakes / cupcakes from scratch, but I really loved this recipe because it didn't involve three bowls to make the cake, which can become tiresome.

Also, guarding Mitchell through screens and all that stuff, that is arguably more tiresome than guarding Ingles from Paul George's standpoint.

And while the pros insist that exploding from sand is easy, they do not remember that exploding from sand on every hole is tiresome.

The Frenchman made eight changes to his starting XI from the team which comprehensively beat Blackburn Rovers 4 - 1 last weekend, including the likes of Ashley Young, Stewart Downing, Marc Albrighton and Darren Bent, a bold decision which didn't go down at all well with the supporters, who are growing tiresome of Houllier's brash and abrasive decision - making.

Having feet dangling freely from the seat can be tiresome especially for the older children.

Consuming enough protein during the day from whole foods can be really tiresome.

I suspected as much, though getting 30g of inulin from onions or garlic might require eating, um, «antisocial» quantities of them even if one likes them, while very frequent artichokes and asparagus would get expensive and tiresome, so the convenience of RS and especially potato starch in order to ensure sufficient prebiotic is a big selling point to me.

Spending the entire evening - or even just dinner - with those who see the negative sides of everything, from the moment he or she enters the car until the moment when he or she leaves the car is just tiresome.

Knowing two of the screenwriters are heirs to a very famous Hollywood family, this sort of a privileged knowledge feels smirking, distracting from legitimate conversation like a tiresome party anecdote.

Young Marie (Terry Moore) rents a room from Lola, a tiresome creature who never stops talking, especially about the «imminent» return of her runaway dog Sheba.

They are beyond tiresome and my eyes started to hurt from excessive rolling.

Even though some of its major aspects, like the battle system and the tiresome grinding, are keeping it from being great, Conan Exiles is a promising and unique survival game that - with the proper attention from the developer - could soon become a must - have for enthusiasts of the genre.

Roth, no stranger to pouring on the reckless boundaries of surrealistic and sadistic porn imagery of torture, fuels his edgy, yet sluggish, edition of Death Wish with a tiresome and nostalgic regurgitation of the late action star Charles Bronson's urban movie series from yesteryear.

Fresh giggles aren't just laughing from Puss In Boots, it's also any of the action, which feels just as tiresome as any of the «jokes.»

But it's clear from the very first moment that «Aloha» is a complete misfire: a tiresome, dull romantic comedy / drama about a celebrated military contractor (Bradley Cooper), who returns to Honolulu and tries to reconnect with his former love, who is now a mom and married to a pilot.

Its greatest crime isn't that its one joke is tiresome from the thirty - minute mark on, it's that at the end of the day the picture doesn't particularly convince as a romance, tickle as a comedy, or score as a satire of any kind.

From those affected by the drugs Seal moved to those whose lives were destroyed when his world came crashing down, writer Gary Spinelli instead focuses his attention on Seal's antics, which — with few consequences — grow tiresome.

Wiseman, with his tiresome blue filter, doesn't have the cojones of a McTiernan or even a Harlin; sadly, Wiseman seems poised to continue with a rebooted franchise likely to include return visits from Long and Winstead.

Adapted from Joseph Delaney's novel The Spook's Apprentice, the movie is a bland mythical drama that feels stuck in the tiresome tropes of the genre.

Even the better examples failed to break away from a tired genre that was beginning to become tiresome.

But, like Universal's ill - fated 2017 reboot of The Mummy, a denial of its villainous MacGuffin tends to cast a hunger for the dark shadow resolutely missing from a story which promises to be steeped in adventure but is instead only tiresome.

Everyone, from his estranged daughter to irksome political flaks, reminds Johnny that it \'s now the 21st century, which for him has become a tiresome excuse for every idiocy.

Thompson herself, reprising the Nanny McPhee role is properly stern and starchy morphing from gruesome to comely as her charges learn their requisite five lessons, though her running argument with a belching crow dubbed Mr. Edelweiss is tiresome rather than piquant.

The game has an interesting soundtrack that probably doesn't quite fit the game too well and it literally has not audio dialogue so there's very little in the way of sound to review, you get the generic 2D crafting sound effects which are amusing however and do contribute to the game's humour a little, the gameplay itself is immersive enough that you can sink hours into the game without realising it, though the menus can be a little tiresome to navigate as you have to open a close them to remove a misplaced item or constantly scroll through all the many different items and topics you can choose from.

As a mobster's wife, she's used to the cushy life and here she is stuck on a train from Chicago to LA with a tiresome police escort (Charles McGraw) who's making sure she'll testify against the mob.

Years from now, director Ava DuVernay will continually be referenced for a dizzying amount of incredible firsts (many of which unfortunately serve as a reflection of the tiresome and slow progression allowing for varied perspectives in popular English language cinema).

There's a real sense of hilarity that comes from the outrageous, long - eared creatures — but on its own, that silliness becomes tiresome rather quickly.

But it's far from just empty spectacle either; the director, and his script (by David Magee) engages intelligently and wholeheartedly with the novel's themes of religion, fate and storytelling, without becoming overbearing or tiresome — in fact, it's arguably more successful than the novel in that respect.

Other non-starters include Camera (essentially a hidden object puzzle where you're looking to take photos of on - the - run criminals), Patchwork (a tiresome pattern - matching puzzle game), Ski (a motion - controlled top down game very similar to the F - Zero mini-game from Nintendo Land), Kung Fu (a frustratingly slow - paced platform game with the art style from Ōkami), Design (a thinly veiled excuse to indulge Shigeru Miyamoto's love for guessing the length of objects (no, really)-RRB-, and Ashley (a tedious 2D shooter without any actual shooting).

Before it reaches that point, however, House at the End of the Street comes off as a fairly typical teen drama that's rife with eye - rollingly familiar elements - as director Mark Tonderai, working from David Loucka's script, devotes much of the movie's opening hour to Elissa's tiresome, drawn - out efforts at acclimating to her new surroundings.

The film - which follows a group of high schoolers (including Devon Sawa's Alex, Ali Larter's Clear, and Kerr Smith's Carter) as they avoid a plane crash yet find themselves pursued by a sinister force - is subsequently rife with expository interludes designed to explain the series» ongoing mythology, and although waiting for the central characters to catch up to what we already know sporadically does become a little tiresome, there's little doubt that Wong's unexpectedly cinematic sensibilities prove instrumental in capturing and sustaining the viewer's interest from start to finish.

Considering what's at stake, the tiresome banter — once it finally gets going — drains all suspense from the proceedings, despite a musical score that sounds like it was lifted from an espionage thriller.

On the plus side, it's always nice to see Ron Perlman playing on the silly side of things, and he does a fine job of keeping Moonwalkers interesting even as it travels from enjoyably weird to slightly tiresome to more or less obnoxious.

But this provocative idea is quickly lost to muddy motivations (Zeus was always a flip - flopper, but just try to follow his train of thought here) and tiresome action that suffers from a lack of audience identification in a hero who sorta wants to save the day, as long as it doesn't mean taking any favors from Dad.

It's so tiresome with game releases that contain bugs or missing features that should have been there from the start.

Financially and artistically, the movie would have benefited from replacing one of the tiresome combat sequences with most of these scenes, even with their few unfinished effects.

Truth or Dare In this tiresome horror procedural, college students bring a deadly «truth or dare» game back from their Mexican spring break.

The by - now tiresome Gears of War cover mechanic is executed here about as well as one can expect from an action title this indifferent to quality control, but the same can't be said, unfortunately, for any of the more active gameplay mechanics.

There's a solid amount of mission variety as well, and while some like a ridiculously brutal defense mission towards the end can be tiresome, the game constantly introduces enough new elements to the formula to keep from being tedious.

The tiresome existence Llewyn finds himself living comes from being perpetually stuck in neutral, between fashions, and (both literally and figuratively) life and death.

And if it's true that comedy comes in threes, someone should tell PlatinumGames; if the looped music weren't grating enough, even the handful of amusing quips from Howard «Buckshot» Holmes and Kreese Kreeley will get repeated several hundred degrees beyond tiresome during the course of a single play - through.