Sentences with phrase «less dreadful»

Without falling too deep into doomsday here, career experts give their best advice on how to foster this all - too - important connection so going to work is less dreadful and more, well, mutually beneficial:

The good news is that The Economist article might be less dreadful than it could have been.

Things are only slightly less dreadful outside the classroom, where Dominika beats a male student half to death in the showers for attempting to rape her.

This product has made the process a little less dreadful.

I need to organize my taxes better to make dealing with my taxes less dreadful!

I know it's hot out now but fall is just around the corner and having a cozy sweater in my closet makes the cool weather less dreadful.

While nothing in the world can make that task pleasant, there are definite ways to make it a bit less dreadful.

The changing pad gives you a peace of mind and makes the job of pamper changing less dreadful.

His hopes for the Catholic future are measured, but «the reality is less dreadful» than the impatient might think.

Not exact matches

In my lifetime, we've embarked on three wars — Vietnam, Iraq, and, perhaps to a lesser extent, Afghanistan — that were all dreadful mistakes.

But the problem with playing «bad» football is that you get much less slack: it makes mediocre results worse, and poor results dreadful.

it's dreadful to see how every day passes other teams are bulking up and we had just one signing for the position that we needed the less...,,.

Burnley new boy Chris Wood pounced on a dreadful back - pass by the South Korean to put his side in front with less than three minutes on the clock and the hosts held out to leave De Boer's reign hanging by a thread after a 1 - 0 loss.

I created the Potty Pause Resolution MiniCourse to help you understand what's happening when baby resists, learn the steps through it, and prevent another from happening (or being quite so dreadful)... all in less than an hour's time.

«Some are welcome: a silly promise to put workers on company boards, for instance, was abandoned; a dreadful plan to make firms list their foreign employees lasted less than a week; and hints at curbing the Bank of England's independence were quietly forgotten.

Shostak also brought up a less frightening but perhaps more existentially dreadful possibility about some future first contact: what if we finally hear from aliens broadcasting their presence as sentient beings, and the big announcement is their understanding of well - known mathematical phenomena such as the Fibonacci sequence.

So I should say up front that «The Hangover,» Mr. Phillips's new movie (written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who contributed to the shockingly nonterrible script of «Four Christmases» and wrote the less surprisingly dreadful script of «Ghosts of Girlfriends Past») is often very funny.

Sunday's salvation makes for a remarkable story, almost as remarkable as Brashear's himself, as both fight dreadful demons that would fell lesser men.

«Penny Dreadful is trading the confines of Vanessa's padded cell for the expanse of the American Southwest this week, but it doesn't feel any less claustrophobic.»

Marketing aside, Ready Player One also has the disadvantage of being adapted from Ernest Cline's dreadful novel, which reads less like prose and more like a laundry list of pop culture references colliding into each other.

It's widely known the author was less than happy with the dreadful thought of having her book adapted to a movie, and the notion of signing the rights over to Disney's team — which wanted to turn it into a musical with animation — was even less appealing.

In the broadest terms, Crimson Peak could be pretty comfortably described as a more visually sumptuous but significantly less subtle Penny Dreadful (indeed, if it turns out that Eva Green was at some point in the running for Chastain's role, it would be far from surprising).

The only thing worse than watching Tatum bumble his way through yet another leading role is the dreadful script by Montiel, which lazily strings together a series of incredibly pointless events and moments of manufactured conflict that are so easily avoidable it can be viewed as nothing less than an insult to the audience's integrity.

With awkward styling (and that's being very nice) and a dreadful user interface that was inscrutable to twenty - year - old IT geniuses, much less the sixty - year - olds the 7 - series was supposed to appeal to, the current 7 - series had some big problems.

Whilst it's by no means a dreadful transmission, we would have preferred the CX - 9's auto to be a bit smoother and responsive when changing gear — though the latter category can at least be improved by engaging the «Mazda Sport Mode» feature, which speeds up the gear changes and makes the transmission less susceptible to holding onto one gear for a longer period of time.

It's thick atmosphere and less liberal approach to giving the player ammunition give it an edge over the likes the dreadful Resident Evil 6.

The Switch, and ARMS, is from the same house that more or less invented motion control, and though memories of the Wii and dreadful waggle - infused third - party games may still lurk in the sharing consciousness of the gaming world, this doesn't fall into the same traps.

While the story is pretty dreadful in this entry in the POP series (which shares a name with versions on other platforms but is, in fact, a game written and designed especially for the Wii), the gameplay is as good as any of its cousins, offering the same wondrous mix of acrobatic puzzle solving and less wondrous (but improved) combat.

I watched this with growing disinterest — it was certainly an answer to the Great global warming swindle in that both were pretty dreadful — this was shockingly over simplistic and you knew from the start who was going to win — even Eastenders can manage a bit more intrigue — but then look what kind of rubbish passes for a subject on things like Panorama; Having over done every other exciting angle on the «credit crunch» they did a program on how it's effecting us — based super scientifically on a small sample of people moaning sorry responding to panorama online which somehow justified a whole program of what some people were doing like driving less or renting a room out — totally pointless.