Sentences with phrase «game as boring»

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The PC, where video games were originally born, has also seen a renaissance as a platform thanks to Steam, the online distribution system started in 2002 by Valve Corp., based in Kirkland, Wash..

Her latest novel, The Handmaid's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, 1986), is commanding attention as a considerably more ambitious book, part of a new phase of her work that includes the poems in True Stories and the novel Bodily Harm (both published in 1981) Exposing male / female power games within an alarmingly widened field of vision, Atwood bears prophetic witness to the largest, most subtle and most violent manifestations of power in our time.

With the advent of the professional youthworker, there also came the danger that the church as a whole and parents of teens in particular would feel that they couldn't do the discipling job, that we needed people who watched the same films, wore the same clothes, could bear to listen to the same music, and could actually get as far as Level 2 on a computer game.

Fr Formenton told the Il Messagero newspaper the idea was «born as a game, thought up with the youth members of the parish and mainly targeted towards them.

Of course, most people don't have bear hanging out in the fridge and that's totally fine — beef, pork shoulder or other wild game would work great as well.

Each individual work bears the hallmarks of an historical context, which embeds a complex narrative incorporating literary and philosophical references as well as visual word games.

Now that you know your wood sorrel from your sea buckthorn, it's time to get on a first - name basis with yet another game - changing Scandinavian chef: Christian, as in Christian Puglisi, the Sicilian - born, Danish - reared mind behind the Michelin - starred Relæ and Manfreds & Vin.

BEST LINE — By color commentator Pat Haden as CBS returned to covering college football for the first time since 1963 with a boring prime - time game between Pitt and North Carolina: «We waited 19 years for this?»

In those days, the early»40s, stoop ball was as popular as stick ball or punch ball, but I suspect it is now dying out; there are fewer stoops — the old brownstones that bore them are being torn down — and more cars are crossing the field of play, impeding the game and endangering the players.

There were some positives for the Arsenal man though, as he started the game and looked dangerous for about half an hour, including a sublime lofted pass to get Vardy in and we have to bear in mind his lack of game time in the last two seasons.

We continued to fight hard in the final minutes of the game, but our opponents stood firm in defence, and the drab game looked as if it would end with the boring final score that matched the game, but we managed to score in the final seconds of injury time.

what i cant bear to see is the insouciant walcott as he just trots around, with the mandatory 2 - 3 offsides per game, and the 2 shots straight at goalie.

If the beautiful game of football was as predictable as most of you are trying to put it by awarding the 2 Manchester clubs trophies they have not earned yet I would have gladly switched to watching hockey; cricket or some other sport I find boring but unpredictable.

People stood in line for as many as 40 hours to purchase tickets to Game 3, and the inevitable alcoholic concoctions that are born of such frenzy began cropping up in bars, the most offensive of which was the Canuck Cafe, espresso doused with everything yellow and black: mocha liqueur, banana liqueur, Galliano, Pernod.

To many Arsenal fans, this weekend may be a boring one, while for others, this weekend will be a weekend whereby our darling team takes a much deserved break and probably recharge their batteries to continue their journey to ending the season on a high; especially as it is likely we may drop out of the top four after the weekend games.

It's not that a day of games topped by Michigan State and Ohio State clashing in Urban Meyer's first taste of conference play as a Big Ten coach is boring; it's just that that game and Baylor's trip to West Virginia represent the only two games between ranked teams on Saturday, and it feels like this week may have cashed its This Game Will Be Better Than You Think chit on Washington's upset of Stanford on Thursday nigame and Baylor's trip to West Virginia represent the only two games between ranked teams on Saturday, and it feels like this week may have cashed its This Game Will Be Better Than You Think chit on Washington's upset of Stanford on Thursday niGame Will Be Better Than You Think chit on Washington's upset of Stanford on Thursday night.

When you gamble and lose on sports, you can just think of it as paying an extra bonus charge to add turbo to what might otherwise be a really boring game.

I'm sure Missouri's own deficiencies in stopping anybody from shooting from behind the arc had a role to play in that — I'm a fan at heart, after all — but I began to find it boring when teams bombed away in non-Mizzou games, as well.

The night before the Vancouver game, two of the Quakes» best players — Paul Child, a 21 - year - old forward from England, and Archie Roboostoff, who, despite his Russian name, is a native - born American — demonstrated soccer techniques in a shopping center modestly described by the San Jose Chamber of Commerce as the biggest in the world.

The game is very boring as we are way to go good for them.

Isaiah bears some responsibility for what went wrong in Cleveland and there are weaknesses in his game that'll be magnified as his athleticism drops off, but that doesn't change the baseline of frustration with how this has played out for him.

Basically this long post leaves me saying we now currently have a 24 man squad classed as over 21 (born 1993 or before) in addition we have some highly thought of under 21s like bellerin and chambers that already command a place in first x1 or the «23» so unless flamini, campbell, wellington, Martinez or even rosicky decide they won't be getting enough game time I do not really see any signings more coming in.

Understandably, it was probably a bit boring as it was just bullpen guys, and you are probably right with the players being «off», but I just think it was great, low - scoring game in front of a crowd that deserved a good baseball game after what they've been through.

I honestly have no idea why people are talking about DMs, CB's and fullbacks... when we lose Sanchez and the very real prospect of losing Ox and Ozil we will officially have the most predictable and boring attack I have ever seen at arsenal... I'd actually take Gervinho back as at least he had some unpredictability to his game!!

We seem to play our game by a lot of trial and error as opposed to having a definitive plan even if it was more pragmatic and boring, like the Arsenal of old under George Graham.

Due to this information, this is a game that bears watching as a potential best bet.

As boring as I sound, like a broken record, the patient Arsenal fan will bear with another article in this manner and I am sorry that I have to repeat myself, but until we address the real problem, I feel like a review on a game where 15 of the 22 players on the pitch looked like they are already on holiday is just pointless while Arsene is delusionally happy with the top As boring as I sound, like a broken record, the patient Arsenal fan will bear with another article in this manner and I am sorry that I have to repeat myself, but until we address the real problem, I feel like a review on a game where 15 of the 22 players on the pitch looked like they are already on holiday is just pointless while Arsene is delusionally happy with the top as I sound, like a broken record, the patient Arsenal fan will bear with another article in this manner and I am sorry that I have to repeat myself, but until we address the real problem, I feel like a review on a game where 15 of the 22 players on the pitch looked like they are already on holiday is just pointless while Arsene is delusionally happy with the top 4.

This week has not seen Arsenal featuring in any game, are you as bored as I am?

But the stats don't bear out that argument as overall Harrison's stats are better than or comparable to all of those players if you base the argument on all around game.

As for yesterday's game, it was indeed a boring first half but no need to complain as the game does not have any significancAs for yesterday's game, it was indeed a boring first half but no need to complain as the game does not have any significancas the game does not have any significance.

«Memphis, as always, needed well over two minutes to score it's first points, and were down 6 - 0 seemingly before the game even started,» wrote Keith G. Edwards Jr. of Grizzly Bear Blues.

Mostly because describing the inner workings of a game - changing tech product is boring as all hell.

We support the Club And not the Regime.It is worrying that the players are talking about this as we are supposedly a big club.All fans should NOT boycott games even as a silent protest.We must do what we were born to do and support the CLUB and the TEAM that represents ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB.

A project of the State Game and Fish Department, it was built with penitentiary labor and installed under the authority of the New Mexico Secretary of State, who handles such official items as the state's official flower (yucca), official mammal (black bear) and official fish (cutthroat trout).

Settling for a point is something we view as entirely Mourinho — esque and boring but in a game where pure numbers are the only thing that matter come May, sometimes settling for a point is beneficial especially if you're away from home.

I thought Alice's trip to wonderland was pretty weird but your football rabbit hole clearly ends in an utterly bizarro junkified world like the rest of em on this site and as we are finding out from our cousins across the atlantic where ageing white men are od» ing on opioids at unprecedented rates when you were born doesn't get you off the hook (literally)... Man city could have complained about injuries to mendy or delph being suspended or Jesus not hundred percent but instead they just got on with the game... There's more to grammar than punctuation just as there is more to being a fan of a club than slavishly supporting it's deluded manager..

IN an Arsenal.com report, Wenger praised the way the Brazilian born Spanish international had hit the ground running after his summer transfer from Atletico Madrid, describing him as a killer and suggesting that keeping Costa quiet was a key part of our game plan.

The Brazilian - born Spanish international has netted 15 goals in 15 league games for Atletico this term and has also caught the eye of Liverpool's rivals Chelsea as well as German side Borussia Dortmund, who are still looking for an adequate replacement for the outbound Robert Lewandowski.

SENIOR WRITER JOE POSNANSKI was born in Cleveland, a fact that many of his colleagues think explains his theory that our games can transcend being just games only when we suspend disbelief, as Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued 200 years ago, and accept events that we ordinarily find incredible.

We were sitting two seats below Monaco fans sitting laughing and taking the piss, and no one seemed to think that that's wrong, I've been to away grounds to watch Arsenal sat in the home team stand and respectfully stay quiets if we score, as a punch in the mouth often offends, I'm amazed at our home games, so many people who don't even speak English and seem to treat the game as a Sunday afternoon tea party, where are the old Arsenal fans born and bred Arsenal, I'm all for a multi cultural look but let's not lose anyone in the race to become global.

Schnellenberger began to refine his passing game as offensive coordinator under Bear Bryant at Alabama.

It does not later what 11 we put out we will get beat they will expose all our weaknesses and win the game comfortably then we will all be back on here saying the same things as we do when getting beat by all the big clubs becoming very boring!!

What I loved about his game today even as much as his goal was his ability to find Laca with his back to goal and also his taking out someone bearing down on Cech from a throw in.

All the genuine Arsenal fans need to bear this in mind as they criticise Wenger every time Arsenal loses a game.

This bears monitoring as both Conference Final games currently fit into this system.

As the Alabama defensive linemen killed time watching television and playing video games on a road trip a few years ago, A'Shawn Robinson got bored and decided he should attempt what so many of his teammates had already failed to do.

Kiffin's never - boring tenure as Alabama offensive coordinator ended just days before the last national championship game after his candid comments about head coach Nick Saban's program in an interview with Sports Illustrated, which allowed him to get a head start making a splash as the new coach of lowly Florida Atlantic, winners of just three games the previous year.

At its heart lie mythic contradictions: a pastoral game born in crowded cities, an exhilarating democratic sport that tolerates cheating, and has excluded as many as it has included.

But it's not distracting, nor is it an issue, every other sport on TV in north America has similar commentary — or does it have to be the one boring British announcer who does play by play and only makes comments as a far removed by - stander of the game?

This is definitely true if you recall that just last year Folsom and De La Salle - Concord actually played in a NorCal Open Division bowl game, and that starting next year such a matchup still isn't happening while possible matchups such as Mission - San Francisco traveling to play a rural small - school opponent such as Winters or Bear River - Grass Valley will be on the CIF bowl game schedule.