Sentences with phrase «hour ordeal»

Dressing for an interview takes a bit of effort on your part, but it doesn't have to be a four hour ordeal either.

It was a nine hour ordeal all together, and I finally made it down to Baldy Village.

Other planes landed and these passengers joined us in a 2 - hour ordeal just to get to security hall.

This was a four and a half hour ordeal.

uppy Left for Dead With Eyes Gouged Out Rescued Terrier Marley plucked from cliff after a 14 - hour ordeal, Firefighter crawls 40 feet into Mill Valley drainage pipe, rescues dog, Illinois man saves dog who fell into icy lake, Duct - taped puppy goes home with Caltrans rescuer

During the seven - hour ordeal, Smith bonds with Nichols about mistakes she's made and their mutual desire to be better people.

Stephen King disliked Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of his 1977 novel to such an extent that he oversaw a lengthier and far more exhaustive TV adaptation in 1997, a five - hour ordeal which sadly maintains none of Kubrick's power to shock.

What should be an enjoyable journey ends up feeling like a chore, requiring much patience throughout the 25 - 30 hour ordeal.

This will take some time for your child to get used to, but he will learn eventually that mealtimes aren't a two - hour ordeal.

I was about a week late, and we scheduled the time with our doctor, went in the night before and did not realize it was going to be a 22 - hour ordeal.

I was expecting a 2 - 3 hour ordeal, but she fell asleep after 40 minutes the first night, 30 minutes the next night, and almost immediately the 3rd night.

The recipes in this book could mostly be considered weeknight - friendly; no three - hour ordeals.

Not exact matches

«I'm trying to think of what I can say,» said the woman of the hour, sighing and shuddering simultaneously, as if to convey she's been through an ordeal.

Trejos, 18, described the ordeal as «scary» and said students were crying and trying to comfort one another as they hid inside a closet in a classroom for nearly two hours.

Whether he suspected how many hours this invitation would cost me, I do not know, but, now that the ordeal is (temporarily) over, I....

The ordeal lasted for two hours on Wednesday evening at Harvest Orange County Church in Irvine, California.

He practiced spiritual disciplines common to holy men: fasting, solitude, long hours of prayer (presumably contemplative), even an ordeal in the wilderness.

He also gets personal, diving into his personal health crisis, the time doctors told him he had 48 hours to live, and how the entire ordeal ultimately gave him a new perspective on business and life.

I totally over-cooked my chickpeas though, which turned my «peeling» into an hour - long ordeal, but I did get a lot of good, simultaneous tv - watching done:) I will be making this hummus on repeat.

At 6 months old, I extended my work hours to a 6 hour day, and she'd give him rice cereal in a bowl, attempt the bottle ordeal, and then a little actual food, ie avocado or banana.

But doctors typically agree that the difference between colic and ordinary crying is that baby seems inconsolable, crying turns to screaming, and the ordeal lasts for at least three hours and sometimes much longer (occasionally nearly around the clock, much to the tired and fraught parents» dismay).

For years bedtime with my first child was a several - hours - long ordeal, with books, songs, snuggling, bottles, drinks of water, and every stalling technique known to tiny humankind.

If you are finding that your previous short soothing routines are now turning into hour - long ordeals before baby will fall asleep, only to find them awake 30 minutes later, that is a pretty clear indication that these soothing efforts are no longer working for your child and that they need to learn how to fall asleep on their own.

And yet, for the past 48 hours, New Yorkers have had to endure a brutal ordeal — with emergency calls backed up, roads left unplowed, riders trapped on trains, buses stuck in snow...

That turns a trip to the doctor, which should require only a few hours» travel, into a days - long ordeal, said Candace Whitman, a local pastor and member of the Island Community Board, during the town's annual Fishers Island meeting last Wednesday afternoon.

The ordeal has been a financial hardship for Diaz, who told DNAinfo that for a time she was walking more than an hour each way to and from Kings County Hospital, unable to afford a taxi or a MetroCard.

Now, astronomer Pilar Ruiz - Lapuente of the University of Barcelona and her colleagues claim to have identified the murderous star, which survived the ordeal but was flung into space at a breakneck speed of almost 500,000 kilometers per hour after its partner's demise.

As the film unfolds over 2 hours and 15 minutes, those words take on a greater and deeper significance, resonating throughout a remarkable real - life drama that pulls the viewer through an almost unbearable ordeal to arrive at a pinnacle of triumph and almost miraculous perseverence.

Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle's new film, 127 Hours, is a gripping account of mountain climber Aron Ralston's harrowing ordeal after he becomes pinned under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and must take desperate measures in...

Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle's new film, 127 Hours, is a gripping account of mountain climber Aron Ralston's harrowing ordeal after he becomes pinned under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and must take desperate measures in order to survive.

As I watched the film, I really wanted to like it, but it never made me laugh out loud, and after an hour, it became an ordeal to watch.

And although the movie begins to palpably run out of steam as it passes the one - hour mark - a feeling that's perpetuated by an increased emphasis on melodramatic moments - Prom, buoyed by an impressively romantic finish, manages to establish itself as a passable time - killer that isn't quite the arduous ordeal one might've anticipated.

The mystery of Shutter Island's structure is exorcised in this way and it never recaptures the sense of dread of its opening reels, making its last two hours something of an ordeal as everything that's aesthetically wonderful about the film is burned off in the crucible of its maddening inconsequence.

Very little dialogue is spoken throughout the two - hour plus ordeal, and not because of the language barrier between the Englishmen and the naturals.

Take Stay for instance, the latest from director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) and screenwriter David Benioff (25th Hour), which features busy McGregor and busy Naomi Watts as a couple in love and dealing with her (Watts's Lila) attempted suicide, the ordeal of which McGregor's character (psychiatrist Sam) has somewhat unscrupulously helped her through.

127 Hours: Danny Boyle's dramatization of the real - life ordeal of outdoorsman Aron Ralston boasts the kind of conceptual riskiness that a director has the cachet to tackle only after, say, delivering a crowd - pleasing Best Picture Oscar - winner.

The ride was an ordeal — a «nine - hour subway ride between stops,» as Chua - Eoan put it.

For Liu, the ordeal began last February when Bell didn't notify her of the city - authorized work that left her with a torn - up lawn and no water for over 30 hours in the middle of winter.

The whole ordeal took less than 2 hours.

The vein is hard to find on a writhing panic - stricken dog, especially from an UNtrained person, so often this is a painful ordeal of being stuck many times over the course of hours!!

After the ordeal, I was quickly checked in and pointed towards my room where I took a quick shower and then laid my head to rest for a quick 6 hour nap before heading back downstairs in the morning for a quick bite to eat and my shuttle back to the airport for my flight to LAX on Alitalia Business Class.

After that ordeal, passengers endured the 16 - hour flight to SFO.

But as it stands there's only one reason to bother playing through the entire campaign, an ordeal which will take you roughly 3 or 4 hours, and that's to unlock all of the available Titans.

For those of you who missed the whole ordeal, Rockstar released the game last week but had to take it down after a few hours of being available on Google Play.

The whole ordeal lasted me roughly 10 hours and that's with the complete 1000 gamerscore and collecting every clover in the game.

Let me start out by saying that I thought playing Evolve for 8 - 12 hours was going to be an ordeal.

In fact, Lithwick's piece provoked sympathy from this reader for her ordeal of watching these hours of video.

That stopover — originally less than two hours — turns into an overnight ordeal as a snowstorm grounds all flights.

If, however, you have an easy going sense of humor, this Florida certified 8 hour online traffic school and aggressive driver course could very well be a relatively entertaining ordeal for you.

Trips that used to take 10 minutes are now hour - long ordeals, and that can lead to traffic accidents...