Sentences with phrase «little of a slog»

Instead, Rampage is a little of a slog until the end, beginning with an absolutely brutal five minute space sequence.

But a good chunk in the middle is a little of a slog to get through once Vinny comes home from the surgery up until he decides to go against doctor's orders.

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The «confined, ritualistic nature of the White House beat makes it a difficult slog for even the most adversarial reporter,» he says, and with dozens of journalists jockeying for the same stories, very little unique coverage emerges.

A young player could have launched a career last week at Annandale Golf Club in Madison, Miss., creating a little buzz in an otherwise static end - of - the - year slog.

Though more often than not these days I would rather be watching Sunday leaguers slogging it out down at the local park for little more than the joy of the game and competition, I found myself fixated, along with millions of other world citizens, at the unfolding spectacle that is, and has become, El Clasico.

It's a hard slog and I'll never be in the realm of Sincerely Jules etc but what I do love is the interaction with other bloggers and hopefully entertain those who read my little slice of the Internet!

After its amazing middle - run, Monae's third full - length starts to shake a little under its own weight, such as the six - minute «Don't Judge Me» which is a little bit of a slog to get through when it is largely repeating themes and ideas Monae has already expressed more explicitly and effectively earlier on, and while finale «Americans» is largely an ironic song about the type of country Monae wishes she lived in, it has a tendency to taste a little sour all the same with its overt Americana imagery.

In its Arcade Mode (which constitutes the vast bulk of the game), you're forced to slog through dozens of levels repeatedly dispatching giant hordes of enemies with little in the way of variation.

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.

We watch our band of heroes slog through the desert and can find little to no life to cling on to.

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.

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.

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.

Annihilation This attempt at a thinking person's action movie devolves into a motiveless slog, in which a group of women soldiers go on a suicide mission, for little or no reason, and end up seeing some very gory, disgusting things.

As Han slogs through a long (one might even say a little too drawn - out) fight back to her, we witness the making of Solo, both the man and the myth.

Don't get me wrong, this is still an excellent all - rounder with impressive levels of performance and practicality, but with an amateur driver at the wheel, the car begins to feel a little ragged when slogged hard.

Barry — Finding an agent has always been a tedious slog, even when the queries went via snail and return mail brought a little slip of paper in your SASE that said «not right for us at this time.»

The second chapter does fair somewhat better, but it's still a pretty gruelling slog, the mindless environments doing little to ease the repetitive nature of the game's combat.

It's fine in the early days of your colony when you are managing just a couple of buildings, but as time goes on and you've got so much more to keep your eyes on having to constantly ferry resources from area to area becomes an irritating slog of micromanagement, a problem that doesn't get solved until you can build a shuttle port which will automatically deploy little ships to move resources around as needed.

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.

As a single - player endeavour it's little other than a slog, but crowd a couple of extra people round the telly and that's when the magic happens in this fantasy twin - stick shooter.

The compliment in that is that Grow Home is such a joy to play that you'll totally forget after the first few giggles, engrossed instead in carefully clambering the little red robot to new heights, planning both his path and the path of the beanstalk's growth, and keeping an eye out for the pretty polygonal views and charming surprises that make the slog worthwhile.

If you don't want to wade through the rest of this little critique I can guarantee you'll only learn one significant thing from the time I spent slogging through Goddard's article.

There have been a lot of apps that have come out to try to make slogging through your inbox easier, but perhaps most of all Smart Reply reminds me of TL; DR, a little app from one of the co-founders of the now - defunct Android launcher Everything.me, which also set out to make email more like messaging by shortening the steps it took to reply to messages by offering suggestions of how to reply.