Sentences with phrase «hours slogging»

You don't have to resign yourself to long, boring hours slogging away on the treadmill.

Without a healthy digestive system, the hours slogging it out at the gym might be worth next to nothing.

That first day eventually proved to be the hardest and longest, an eight - hour slog through the forest — this being the wet season, the path was muddy, and infested with leeches and deadly cobras.

Are you going to be struggling to stay motivated for those wet 5 - hour slogs in this rainy / snowy winter climate?

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

Sometimes, a great dish doesn't have to be slogged over for hours.

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.

Whether it strikes you for a few hours or a few weeks, it's easy to slog through the day feeling grumpy and grouchy.

Or other times you're just lazy and don't feel like slogging it out for an hour.

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

While Part 1 huffed and puffed for a slogging 147 minutes, Part 2 zips by in just over two hours, crowding the movie with incident.

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.

As I slogged through the first hour I wondered if things might improve once I arrived at the first proper city.

Minus ads, the complete series is a little over 16 hours long, and all the banter and whimsy should prevent a premiere - to - finale sprint from becoming a slog.

Note: It's two hours and 19 minutes long, so make that a long slog.»

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.

If I were to describe my 70 hours with Xenoblade X in one word, it would be â $ boredom.â $ The main story did little to get me invested, the side quests were repetitive at best, and the combat was a painfully monotonous slog even with the advanced classes unlocked.

The major problem is its structure, which tediously slogs through the first hour setting up the various dominos to be knocked down later.

I spent somewhere between six and seven hours working my way through the game's story mode, slogging through chaotic battles, fighting predictable bosses (wait until they're vulnerable, hit, repeat) and fretting over puzzles that couldn't be solved until I came back through with different characters in Free Play mode.

Sean Penn takes African strife and turns it into a two - hour perfume commercial with this overlong, pretentious slog.

The ship has finally sunk in a slow, torturous 2 hours + slog.

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.

A two - hour — correction two - hour and 20 - minute — film shouldn't feel like torturous, interminable slog.

If nothing else, Justice League's two - hour runtime means that it can't be quite the slog that Batman V Superman was, though one does have to wonder how they're going to find the space to coherently introduce all those new characters.

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.

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.»

I, for one, am someone who would want the most powerful model if my bank account could handle it, but on my slog through morning Miami rush - hour traffic I definitely didn't need it.

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.

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

Day 3 — Inca Trail Chaquicocha to Winaywayna — Inca Flats Our reward from yesterday's slog is a somewhat more leisurely scenic six hour day on what is called Inca Flats.

There's no manual save system either, so any time you want to play Amy you better make sure you've got a spare hour or so to complete the entire chapter, otherwise you're going to have to slog through the entire thing again.

After putting 26 hours into the narrative slog, I asked myself, «Why?»

The whole campaign can be completed in less than two hours and and amounts to little more than a slog through soulless, boring content.

The opening hours are a slog filled with tutorials given by uncharismatic AI companions.

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.

Instead you'll find yourself slogging away for hours on end as you try to make every connection between the countless puzzles across the island.

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

However, due to some crippling frame rate issues here, the game can be quite the slog to sit through and watch for a solid hour or so.

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.

Hour after hour just fall away as you slog through PandHour after hour just fall away as you slog through Pandhour just fall away as you slog through Pandora.

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.