Sentences with phrase «in humdrum»

In the humdrum of dozens of resumes littered with phrases like «Partnered with manager to improve team efficiency,» that could put them to sleep, a resume that uses great action verbs and tells a vivid story of who you are as an employee will make them perk right up and reach for their phone.

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.

When I was in my pajamas, I raised the shade again so I could get the maximum benefit from the experience, lying straight as a mummy in my little coffin - bed of rebirth, hurtling through one town after another where people steeped like old tea bags in their humdrum lives, speeding farther away by the minute from Earl - dom and all the other bottlenecks I had narrowly squeezed through.

In the humdrum of daily driving — or the hustle and bustle of New York City, for that matter — it's refreshing to spend time in a car that allows you to escape from all that.

Set on the Moon in 80 years» time, where Little America is a domed Blade Runner - ish enclave of all that is depressing in the big America of today, it finds Murphy in a humdrum stand - up - for - your - property story.

Ripping off scenes entire from sources as varied though familiar as Scream, Pet Sematary, and Tenebre, The Pool is teeth - setting in its humdrum prudishness and narrative predictability.

Most of us get caught up in the humdrum of our day - to - day, forgetting the magic that can exist between the pages of a good book and opting for the mindless relief of a TV show or movie instead.

Yet one of its most important moments happened in the humdrum privacy of a morning shootaround last Thursday, when power forward Chris Bosh — among the NBA's more serene stars — had a rare alpha episode of his own.

Okra is a vegetable high in vitamins and nutrients, but that doesn't mean it needs to get stuck in a humdrum veggie dish.

Along with these radiant moments comes the abiding that is neither towering nor spare but steadily evident in the humdrum and hand - over-hand routines of our waking hours.

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.

Not exact matches

We've assembled a group of fantastically successful companies in incredibly humdrum industries to show that being boring is a desirable business strategy.

But competing over humdrum necessities that have the lowest profit margins, such as toiletries and laundry detergent, seems like a mug's game to Mark Foote, the former CEO of Zellers, who was tasked with winding down the outgoing Canadian retailer when Target assumed its leases in 2012.

Walk past the windows of Fossil, Build - A-Bear Workshop, Guess — humdrum chains you can find in any mall in America.

Managers can identify what the office housework is in their department and who is doing it, and spread out these humdrum assignments more evenly.

Of course, 2016 was shaping up as a fairly humdrum affair itself until Election Day, with year - to - date gains on the leading benchmarks in the mid-single-digit range.

I don't want to compare my experience to that of Moses, since I was only called to open my heart, but I find the scriptural account moving in that when Moses first notices the burning bush — a moment we have come to think of as a great theophany — the impression given by the text is more humdrum.

Stripped of any belief in the kind of higher consolation that makes sense of life's inevitable injustices and humdrum frustrations, the demands that people place on the political system «become as infinite as the infinity they have lost.»

What he was likely to doubt, however, was whether such heroism could possibly be displayed in his own less dramatic and more humdrum day - to - day existence.

As many a TV situation comedy has demonstrated, human finitude can be very funny, and Auden heightens the humor by suggesting that the humdrum is caught up in salvation history.

Friends of religion, in contrast, find support for their views in Berger's criticisms of the limitations of everyday reality, in his argument for the role of overarching canopies of meaning, and in his openness to the possibility of «signals of transcendence» that break through the sheltering humdrum of everyday life.

It is not the routine, humdrum marking of time in our daily lives, or the terror and dread of devastation.

She gives us pictures of how women can find a thrilling, transformative love that fits into real life, right in the middle of all the humdrum things we're perpetually pestered with, like financial worries and annoying relatives.

Carl Sagan claimed that «we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe».

Thus, in 1839 Richard Wagner makes a hasty escape from political intrigue, personal bankruptcy, and the humdrum of provincial life in Riga, again by sea; and it is this nautical misadventure that was to inspire his Flying Dutchman and, ironically, lay the foundations for his eventual success as a composer.

Through Christ there is a height and depth in life made available to a humdrum man or woman who has never climbed mountains nor descended into the depths.

No man has insisted on this more vigorously than Baron von Hügel, who with all his deep faith in the fullness of our Lord's embodiment of God, was yet ever ready to maintain that in other religious traditions, and likewise in science, art, philosophy, ethics, as well as in the simple humdrum experiences of daily life, God in some way and to some degree has been found and known.

Easygoing if a bit humdrum, the biscuity and gently bitter lager should be your go - to the next time you find yourself in Armenia.

Turbo Coffee, an appropriately Instagrammable espresso bar inside Greasy Hands barber shop in Florence, Alabama, is currently selling this summer's answer to humdrum iced coffee.

Just over a year ago, they were revelling in the travails of Wojciech SzczÄ ™ sny so another promotion back into the Premier League may seem humdrum.

It's a rather humdrum Queen's Speech for a weird period in the political cycle.

As was expected, Dr. Bawumia waxed in much prolixity and repetitive humdrum about the ills facing the Ghanaian economy under President Mahama without any spasm of intellectuality to place everything in the broad spectrum of the national economy long before the Mahama era.

In recent years, most defeated Prime Ministers have walked away from frontline politics altogether, with few willing to descend to humdrum of Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet.

But bear this in mind, parents, there are other ways for your child to contribute to your overall genetic success than humdrum sexual reproduction.

It was humdrum stuff — until one official mentioned in passing that this tree - lined curve in the river, a popular picnic spot for Hungarians, was to be drowned by a giant hydroelectric dam being planned in secret by a much - feared state agency known simply as the Water Management.

Microsoft poured its massive R&D resources into the software that processes all the data Kinect's humdrum hardware brings in.

We tune in to be reminded of what CSI, House, and the rest will never remind us: how easily and thoroughly any humdrum human existence can be transformed if you wrest your attention from the tawdry Technicolor scenery of life and train it instead upon the murk and gloom and the shadows that surround us.

«So it's not humdrum; it's exciting in that sense.»

One of the reasons we get depressed or blue is because we're involved in something that feels boring, humdrum, or merely unpleasant.

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.

A documentary about trans women in Puerto Rico, Mala Mala offers viewers both the glitz and the humdrum from a variety of colorful yet human characters, from Ivana Fred, a politically - minded woman who spends her evenings passing out condoms to sex workers, to Sandy Rivera, a sex worker with a loving cisgender boyfriend.

Rushed into production at Columbia Pictures to capitalize on the success of Jaws, another seafaring adventure based on a Peter Benchley novel, The Deep has a humdrum story, generally uncommitted performances, and a phoney Moray eel (nicknamed «Percy» on set) that gives the much - maligned mechanical shark «Bruce» from Jaws a run for its money in the department of unconvincing animal attacks.

But when an obstacle presents itself in real life, Walter must make the ultimate decision — keep living life through his imagination and others or step out of his 9 to 5 humdrum existence and actually live for the first time.

Sadly, these are the only highlights in «The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,» a slow, humdrum comedy that would have worked better as a 10 - minute sketch than a feature film.

A tale of three border guards on a day when things take an unexpected turn from the usual humdrum of a day in the desert, Transpecos is a hugely accomplished debut by Austin - based director Greg Kwedar.

But beware, this film starts really slowly, and in the first 15 minutes you wonder whether this was a good choice of movie - but the scene is being set for Wilf Ferrell's geeky / seemingly humdrum life.

Wringing subtle wit and hard - won honesty from humdrum life has become something of a trademark in the work of Frank V. Ross, a perennially under - appreciated talent of American independent cinema.

Recommendation: Though it starts sluggish and takes its time to evolve from humdrum human drama into full - fledged, in - your - face bloody action, the back nine of this film is absolutely worth the wait.

Images become the very poetry the humdrum and confusing, if functional and cohesive, story seeks, especially in juxtapositions of Hong Kong's neon and concrete jungles and the transitional title credits, so fragile that they crumble from the faintest touch.

We follow him through his humdrum days of stalking and then dispatching his prey, until he finds his own unwholesome kind of family in the form of buddy Otis and his sister Becky.