Sentences with phrase «just slogs»

We're just slogging away in the traditional investment world,»» says Cordes, who built AssetMark Investment Services to about $ 9 billion in assets, sold it to Genworth Financial Inc. in 2006, and last year was part of an investment group that re-acquired the company.

He's just slogging.

Make it educational I realized that cardio could be more than just slogging along on the elliptical.

As with every job, though, there are some days that are just a slog.

The good news it that they don't have to share every single experience that the game has to offer so many of us can just slog through the opening on our own after they head to bed.

Instead you're given the tools you need to be ready for just about any situation without the need to go back to town and respec your character or just slog through a tough section unprepared.

Even though you've just slogged through three paragraphs of negative comments, I hope the overall tone of this review is still positive.

Good enough to just slog on through so much content even when your heart's not fully in it anymore.

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Twenty - first - century selling isn't all a hard slog, of course; just think of the guys peddling iPads.

The recession in Canada lasted just eight months, far shorter than the United States» projected two - year slog or even Canada's own recessions in the early»80s and»90s.

But this is a big market, and there already is some activity — it just hasn't picked up a ton of traction just yet because it is a slog to get everything all in one place.

Wouldn't that just mean slogging through the minutiae of Sarbanes - Oxley compliance?

Just because you're in the first stage doesn't mean you need to slog through all of them.

And it freezes beautifully so you don't have to slog through an entire pot of chili — just divvy up the leftovers into smaller, freezer - safe containers so you have an easy reheat and eat option later on down the road.

The donut, that glorious torus, reminds us that mornings can be joyful, and not just something we have to slog through on our way to quitting time.

And just when you're ready to pat yourself on the back for a good job done, you realize that you're slogging away, trying to squeeze every last drop of milk as though the survival of the entire human race, nay the entire universe depends on it.

You can't just sign up for the Boston Marathon — the runners slogging their way through 38 degree temperature, whipping wings, and driving rains are some of the best the world has to offer.

It's just been a tough slog for all three, whereas the Nationals were probably set up best to handle a rough season from one or two of them.

Let me just generalize and say «we,»» Poulter said about his slog around Augusta in the company of 2008 Masters champion Trevor Immelman and Patrick Cantlay, starting just his second Masters.

How much money do they need to preform week in week out, while we slog our guts out just to go to a match.

We both had begun to feel that parenthood was this terrible, hopeless slog of just getting through it.

«Hundreds and hundreds slogged their way, not just to Washington DC, but to almost all the venues that Obama spoke at, to see him physically and not just on television.»

By the time he and his crew had slogged their way through, they were covered with mud, and before long, Leakey, who was just beginning an illustrious career as an anthropologist, was on hands and knees scouring the ground for newly exposed bones.

But a computer game that puts those kids on the front line of a battlefield inside the human body — where cancer cells and chemotherapy drugs are slogging it out for supremacy — just might persuade them that it's important to keep taking the drugs.

but also a slog to get through and written in a way where I'm not going to remember the companies or dates; it's all just jumbled in my head.

You find it hard to think clearly, and you feel like you spend your days slogging thru a vat of waist - deep oatmeal, it just takes way more effort than it should for you to accomplish anything.

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

Speed dating events can feel just as liberating for singles who are tired of slogging through bad dates and dead - end conversations.

More importantly, there's no payoff for solving any puzzle - just more puzzles to slog through.

I found myself slogging through it just to get the achievement points and was completely sick of it

Happy - Go - Lucky is one of those films you have to buy into absolutely, or it's just one long slog until the final credits.

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.

I found myself slogging through it just to get the achievement points and was completely sick of it before episode 1 even ended.

Just have the newbies at the company slog through it: it'd be a great test of their work ethic to see what kind of work they will do on altogether new games.

Sunday night's slog was further confirmation that Oscar season is just too long and that previous awards telecasts have upstaged the granddaddy of show - business awards.

For fans of the series, the nostalgic elements will satisfy their every craving, for those just checking it out for the first time, this is a near dreadful slog.

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.

Maybe it requires another viewing to appreciate it fully, but I just can't bring myself to endure this slog once more.

Maybe if it had leaned just a little bit harder into its own ridiculousness, I'd have loved it without reserve, but as it is, it's less of a rampage, and more of a slog.

It's always such a long slog with just a couple of laughs.

In honesty, some of the firefights can slog on just a little too long, and while the combat is varied, it is also very familiar to fans of the franchise, and there are precious few moments of calm in the campaign.

Parts of the game are still kind of fun to play through cooperatively with friends — though, unlike in the first game, you sometimes feel like you have to be playing in co-op to avoid being overwhelmed by awful infinite enemy spawns — but coming from the Dead Island, getting through Riptide mostly just felt like a slog that I wanted to be done with.

There's something a little depressing about watching a talented actor like Jose Ferrer (who, near the start of his career, worked with filmmakers like Otto Preminger and John Huston) slog his way through junk like Zoltan... Hound of Dracula, and though he does deliver a surprisingly effective performance, it's just not enough to disguise the movie's many, many deficiencies.

The result is a satisfying film, just coherent enough, just engrossing enough to cover for the tedious by - the - book slog of even the best Harry Potter films.s

I liked the trappings and combat of Op Abyss well enough, just burned out at the expansive slog during the game's second of two halves.

It's as if he slogged through all that other setup stuff just so he could get to this one scene.

Perhaps it's because it was less of a just war than its bigger sequel, perhaps it's that it was a particularly gruesome slog of mud and sacrifice, perhaps it was because America only entered the war three years in, but there's no doubt that the conflict has been seen in the movies much less than WWII, or even Vietnam.

Following last year's «Insurgent,» this one's just a total slog.

It should be impossible to turn this kind of raw material into such an interminable slog, and yet somehow writer and director Marc Abraham (who is best known as a producer; his other writing credits include Moonlighting and the original 21 Jump Street and his only other directorial gig is Flash of Genius) managed to do just that.

I find the base engine plenty sprightly, whether slogging through traffic or just blasting around town.