Sentences with phrase «hours of slogging»

Watching this sick trailer for Aboveground Animation made our day after long hours of slogging through press releases.

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I recognize that this might seem a strange question, given how much we hear of stressed - out students, slogging through hours of homework and blizzards of standardized tests.

If that Welfare cap doesn't come down pretty quick then some hardworking family earners slogging their guts out for a pittance, with 2 jobs on zero hour contracts, of # 20 000 a year or less, is going to be feeling pretty miffed that some couch potato is on # 21K and s / he is only on 20k, or less.

On Tuesday, Cuomo touted the idea of a bridge to Westchester County or the Bronx in an Albany speech, saying it would save drivers hours of time slogging through New York City traffic.

No more of the «burn» for an hour, slogging (slow + jogging) for an hour, or mindlessly going nowhere on an elliptical or treadmill.

While the first hour or so is a true slog, the back half of the movie picks up the pace to deliver an entertaining, gruesome, and violent peek into the underbelly of Cell Block 99.

Running and gunning through the levels doesn't change much, but the variety of weapons and the core mechanics make what could have been a dull slog into a fun three - hour journey.

Suffering from pacing and monochromatic tonal issues — various types of drab torture for two hours — «Unbroken» is also overlong and eventually settles into a slog with little narrative drive.

The pitfall of ensemble drama is that any strands that do engage are over too soon and, if mishandled, the condensed nature of each story takes its toll on potential subtlety... It's a two - hour slog stuffed with shortcuts, populated by puppets who must indulge in behaviour that isn't just off - kilter, it's off the wall.

There are a few good action sequences to keep things interesting, including a nifty bit in which Lara finds herself dangling from the decaying remains of a crashed bomber straddling a raging waterfall, but by the time the film is deep into its second hour, the overall lack of intrigue and charm makes it feel like a long, heavy slog to the end credits.

Fast Five, released a decade after the first movie, not only reinvigorates the series» commercial prospects, but accomplishes something far more vital: It saves the last five hours of my movie - watching from becoming a slog through mediocrity.

It's a bravura accomplishment of the writing then, that though we're being asked to find our way, in two hours, to the heart of a story grown over with decades of secrecy and thorns — a process that took the participants months of hard slog — we never get caught in the brambles.

Silva is paid 400 euros for the 40 hours she slogs away each week in a kitchen in a poor neighborhood of Lisbon.

You can slog through all seven - plus hours of «Penny Dreadful» without getting a sense that Logan has any particular emotional involvement in or new ideas about these classic horror stories (the vampire hiding from the light, the manmade pariah feeling the sting of unrequited affection) beyond the underlying assumption that the world is a cold and lonesome place and it behoves us to take love and friendship where we can get it.

«Red Sparrow» is a long slog, almost 2 1/2 hours, but it is interesting as another in a line of female - centric spy thrillers that began in 1990 with Luc Besson's «La Femme Nikita.»

Today, though, I wanted to give you a quick head's up on some terrific iPod beach fodder to fill some of those summer hours that you won't spend slogging through my stilted prose.

«I need to know there is a level playing field for my students who have slogged their guts out over the past year to do each of the 20 - hour controlled assessment tasks without any direction from me as dictated by the exam board.»

Readings are one of the easiest ways to meet your favorite authors, and they can be such a dose of excitement and a morale boost to help you slog through the endless hours of typing at your laptop.

Choose between a challenging 10 - hour slog up Volcan Concepción on Isla de Ometepe, howler monkeys echoing through the lush forest on Volcan Mombacho, gazing down at the eerily dark crater lake of Volcan Cosigüina or watching the smoke and ash spluttering from Volcan Masaya.

I like to think of Kicking Horse as a base camp for summer alpine adventures, without actually having to sleep in a tent to enjoy the mountains, shell out for a heli - drop, or slog uphill for hours before

Even if you've set it to short weekends, meaning you just do one practice session, a streamlined qualifying and a shortened race, it'll still take around an hour to an hour and a half to complete each event, and with twenty in a season and you're looking at something of a long slog.

The Order: 1886's campaign was a molasses - slathered slog through five hours of uninspired gunplay, tired quick time events and scowling protagonists.

Anyway, I'd been slogging through the end of the game for well over two hours, frequently having to restart battles because someone thought the very end of the game was the best place for a brutal difficulty spike.

The first five or so hours of Zestiria are an absolute slog, bogged down by the same sort of exposition and limited gameplay that plague many JRPGs.

Finding a real one could take hours of patient slogging.

This junk software often turns the process of powering on your new PC from what could be a delightful experience into a tedious slog, forcing you to spend hours cleaning up your new PC before you can enjoy it.

With brightness set to automatic and Wi - Fi, Bluetooth, and cellular data enabled, we slogged through an eight - hour workday's worth of emails, social media updates, Slack messages, and app updates without about 40 percent power to spare.