Sentences with phrase «going through the motions at»

Aside from starting slow, U-571 goes through the motions at a pleasant clip, with some dazzling special effects along the way.

Sony is going through the motions at this point and keeping in - line with their yearly product release cycle.

I went through the motions at my neighborhood Chevron, choosing «Debit» and swiping my card.

While I enjoyed Uncharted 3's story and some of its magnificent set pieces, it seemed to be going through the motions at times and felt like more of a refinement of the previous adventure without the care and excitement baked into it.

Job duties make it seem as though you are content just going through the motions at work.

Even the most driven leaders can find themselves going through the motions at work.

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More simply put, if you continue to do the same workout day in and day out, you will reap no benefits; you're simply just going through the motions and actually putting yourself at risk of an overuse injury.

You stare at the computer screen, willing yourself to type, create, develop, and instead you find yourself simply going through the motions, barely caring about the work you're producing.

Week one I went through the motions, week two I started to notice the same people in class, week three I held the plank for more than 20 seconds at a time (score!)

He had comeback to «re-build our marriage» but what no one knew at the time, was that he still had no intention of stopping the relationship with Vivien, he was just going through the motions for all of you and me.

There's a lot of this going around (i.e., Christians looking at their faith, at their Church and at their local churches & recognize they can no longer keep going through the motions of Business As Usual).

How should we make sense of these cases, and what if the Servant, the nurse or the clerk were «going through the motions» at the point of a gun, rather than merely (as in the condemned Servant view) in fear of their jobs or an «angry look»?

But I think they would look at a complete lack of change in someone's life and wonder if there's really been a conversion at all — or if they are just going through the motions, paying lip service.

I was still going through the motions of religion, but yet something struck me as odd at that church.

When the alarm buzzes at 5:40 am, I groggily pull myself out of bed and go through the motions, but my pace is slow and my mind is still back in bed, resting under the sheets.

He talked up the team, waxed poetic about Curry's greatness, bragged about the hard work his teammates had put in to get to this point and picked at his afro while going through the motions of making a quick exodus out of the locker room.

«It's not real you can tell he's going through the motions and he needs to take a long hard look at himself.»

Landry Jones is barely better than Osweiler, but can at least go through the motions of running an offense consistently.

At times, he'll walk up and go through the motions with a show - me hard count (watch him walk up, get under center, and yell «hut - hut.»).

And the players that did play seemed to be going through the motions like us but they got punished with a shocking loss at home.

This season is going to peter out with us finishing 6th or 7th because we have a manager who can not seem to motivate his players to at least look as if they are trying rather than just going through the motions.

City appeared at times to be going through the motions but they also had chances as Riveros blocked a Silva shot and Tomas Vaclik saved at Ilkay Gundogan's feet.

On the half hour it had been a lacklustre performance by United who had not created anything since the Rooney effort at the start of the half and honestly looked like they were just going through the motions as news had come through that Arsenal were up 3 - 0 so fourth position would be the best United could finish.

The Hammers went through the motions on Friday in their loss at Chelsea.

But then, for a team of United's ability, even going through the motions could mean grabbing a point or two at least.

Scholes said: «Since he has been there you can not doubt his quality but at times he looks like he is going through the motions, however much ground he covers.

Currently got over # 18m MORE in the bank than we started the transfer window with and another few million coming when Alberto leaves so let's not pretend that LFC are contenders because, with an ageing RIGHT - winger playing at Left - back and no specialist DM, we are just going through the motions.

Elisabeth is especially gifted at getting parents to tap into their own inner child, so they can do more than just go through the motions of parenting.

Go through the same motions at home as you do away from home.

However, with Mr. Jeffries amassing one labor endorsement after another, it remains strange that Mr. Towns hasn't yet gone through at least the same motions as he did in his past reelection campaigns.

The discovery of William Baah's deep involvement with the NPP comes at a time when members of Delta Force, a goon squad of the ruling party, had overthrown court proceedings and freed members of their group facing trial with the state going through the motions to sweep the case under the carpet.

Instead, the various sides seem to still be going through the motions of negotiative posturing and officials are still shooting at each other.

If that thing isn't something that would really keep you up at night, then why are you going through the motions?

When I took a closer look at myself, I realized that I merely went through the motions of eating healthily, exercising, drinking water, and taking vitamins.

However, for better isolation of the posterior head, perform it in a slow and controlled manner and instead of going through the full range of motion, use half reps (stop at the point when your arms reach your side).

Partial Reps — Performing an exercise without going through a complete range of motion either at the beginning or end of a rep.

At the time mobility training meant simply going through the big motions during warm up.

All «training» sessions are done at a very easy pace — basically, going through the motions.

We are so efficient at our daily activities that we just go through the motions.

For example, with the normal squat, you are going through a full range of motion with the muscle so parts of the muscle aren't always firing as much when you are at different points.

Going through the motions isn't enough; you need to exercise at the right intensity in order to burn the maximum amount of calories.

We go through the motions, we do what we think we're supposed to do (or heck, even what we know we're supposed to do to at least just get the job done), and we expect results to be per usual.

Go through all the motions of a date: do you arrive together or meet at a designated place, how to split expenses, determining the time frame of it.

Now here we have the same two actors — actors we like, actors who are good to look at, actors who work easily together — and the same directorial hand at the helm, and they just seem to be going through the motions.

He was going through his most incredible period at the time of this film (Alien came in the same year as The Great Train Robbery and Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and this remains one of the most notable film scoring accomplishments.

Without the strong bond, everything else that follows feels artificial, going through predictable motions in order to get to what Barker really is interested in showing — the sadomasochistic costumed bad guys and some very gruesome deaths at their hands.

Even though some of Sandler's early work was idiotic, at least one got the feeling that he was trying to entertain and not just going through the motions.

This numbness eventually starts to show itself in other areas of the relationship, and eventually, instead of working at maintaining the relationship, the pair is simply going through the motions.

A feel - good movie in a positive way, The World's Fastest Indian might go through predictable motions in telling this true story, but it does manage to keep the interest going at full speed.

Sadly, after that brief Bacchanalian frenzy, Wishmaster 3 settles down to a stultifying series of unimaginative shots of Prof. Barash stalking around alternated with Diana and her Djinn - fodder pals going through the supernatural horror movie motions of researching the occult at the library and exchanging worried glances.