Sentences with phrase «humdrum world»

Fantasy takes you out of your own humdrum world.

When first an MP, he shared an office with James Purnell, who now prefers BBC digital policy to the humdrum world of Labour politics, and seems on a trajectory to end up appropriating ideas from Meacher.

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But they also provide a place to sleep, have fun and mingle with colleagues — not in humdrum office parks, but in exotic locations around the world, in the European countryside close to urban centers or in warm - weather destinations like Bali.

Ready Player One paints the picture of a dystopian society in which most of the people are poor and have a virtual reality world called OASIS to escape their humdrum reality by diving into the world of their imagination.

Even the trailer doesn't give much away — a young woman comes into possession of a metal badge which transports her from the humdrum normality of middle America into some kind of fantasy world.

Agnes Jaoui infuses the film with a distinctive visual style, peppering the film with impressionistic paintings which fade into the drab surroundings of the world of the film — the entrance to the driving school, a concrete slab of a building — neatly linking into the film's idea that romance fades into humdrum mediocrity.

It features an origin story of the titular hero and then quickly cuts into a plot about stopping a megalomaniac from taking over the world for nefarious but unclear reasons (Although it might be good enough reason for someone to climb a mountain, «Because it's there» is about as dramatically humdrum a motivation for world conquest as they come).

It both parodies the human tendency to seek out conspiracies as an explanation for all that is off about the world and gives us a monkey - paw - like wish look at how distressing it would be for one to actually have their normal, humdrum life upended completely.

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries.

8,300 customers a day are downloading the Harry Potter audiobooks and popping in their earbuds to magically transform humdrum train commutes into rides aboard the Hogwarts Express, leisurely jogs into a frantic escapes from Dementors, and the muggle chore of sweeping the kitchen floor into the Quidditch World Cup.

While it can surely be a window to the wider world, it is even more so a mirror to the secret sanctums of your soul; those closeted recesses that, back home, we wall off with the pretty patina of Facebook photos and drown out in the daily din of humdrum happenstance.

I guess life was pretty boring in the humdrum workaday world, leading me to escape to Gunung Rinjani, on a remote island called Lombok in Indonesia.

Such future games as might attain to this title could come from anywhere in the world — they are as likely to come from Chile as from Europe and the United States, where commercial pressures make storytelling in games take rather humdrum and conventional paths, more influenced by Hollywood action movies than anything else.

Showing what happens when a humdrum office life doesn't go according to plan, the short game examines the weight of decision making and consequences, both as gaming devices as real world events.

These games received great reviews and stole the hearts of gamers around the world, yet other developers seem to have a hard time following that example, creating the same humdrum games over and over again.

It's a bit unnerving to see such a good problem posed by one of the world's two fat publishing companies, even if their vision is a bit humdrum.