Sentences with phrase «long meandering»

This is a «fail» since a long meandering mess buries your skills, fast.

Looking at my own path I see a long meandering road on which I've managed to find employment at ten companies within seven different careers.

He is no longer meandering blindly along.

Carl took the Davework from her; his thumb traced the edge, once jagged but now smoothed by its millennia - long meander through the lagoon since the MadeinChina.

A canal was built in 1542 to straighten out this long meander and shorten the sailing time to Ayutthaya, the old capital.

Under the second scenario (if feasible), the Arctic region is cooled to the point that the jet stream no longer meanders around in such an erratic fashion, and agriculture is less at risk.

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They start late, have the wrong people in them, meander around their topics, and run long.

Meanwhile the longest entry comes from Moderna's three - sentence, overly wordy, somewhat meandering, slightly generic mission statement (you can read it in full in the infographic below).

One also has to question the editorial wisdom of allowing a biography of a famous Supreme Court justice to meander more than 450 pages before its subject even becomes a justice» a long walk through such dusty disputes as the Ballinger «Pinchot scandal and the 1890s battle over Boston's utility rates.

But they would forget all about it when the next speaker bounded up on stage and started off with a witty joke about falling asleep in the padded pews during long, meandering, pointless stories from untrained preachers.

I've long been a fan of his unique ability to write a meandering essay that nonetheless feels as though it has a singular focus.

I find myself laughing out loud like a crazy person on the treadmill or on long, meandering running routes.

While relaxing at the resort, guests can take advantage of the on - site spa, meander Kauai's longest stretch of walkable beach, learn how to snorkel or scuba dive with free lessons in the pool, and take part in an impressive selection of on - site cultural activities like poolside lei - making classes, hula dancing lessons, and a daily Sunrise Ceremony on the beach, not to mention family friendly koi fish feeding activities.

This is long and boring and meandering but I needed to write this.

Yesterday's concession of two goals to a Southampton team that have struggled for them all season left a lot to be desired of and when Shane Long simply meandered into the box and was more alive to a cross than Mustafi, I'd like to say I couldn't believe we were one down, but I can.

With my trusty list, I'm happy to say that you'll no longer find me meandering around Target alone with my mocha frappachino.

They come in both short and long - sleeved versions, are comfy, inexpensive, and help to keep a meandering diaper in place.

They point to his propensity for long, meandering speeches to kill off pieces of nascent legislation, such as attempts by backbenchers to regulate payday lenders and to stop rogue landlords evicting tenants asking for basic repairs.

Famous for facilitating an incredible exchange of culture and goods between the East and the West, the ancient Silk Road is thought to have meandered across long horizontal distances in mountain foothills and the lowlands of the Gobi Desert.

«In experiments with monarchs at different times of the day, you do see occasions where their turns in course corrections are unusually long, slow or meandering,» said Shlizerman.

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Long topping lists of the best couple getaways, with its street cafes and meandering Seine, Paris is the grand dame of romance.

But don't stay out in the cold too long — meander your way towards a cozy pub to get toasty and chat over a well - earned drink!

There are moments of wit, fear, imagination and grace that one remembers over the years, but they are scattered among the long drawn - out, meandering narrative.

The film is by no means terribly long, at least when you compare it to its 1969 musical counterpart, so it's not like storytelling drags its feet for ages, but make no mistake, the fact of the matter is that plotting's structure is something of a mess that meanders along repetitiously and, well, is to be expected, because, really, where does this story have to go?

The album's just a little over half - an - hour long, and it's all of a piece, conveying casual imagery that meanders from the hands - in - pockets wistfulness of drifting and kicking on trash cans («Knockin» on Your Screen Door») to turning on the TV and looking out your window.

Far from a complete success: It takes too long to get to its central premise and, once there, too often meanders away from it.

I mean, this film predictably culminates with Weidemeyer coming to terms with his flaws and beginning his long overdue steps into maturity, but that's just the climax, whereas in the rest of the film, the lead, in addition to a few other jerks, is hard to forgive, not just because his depths are limited by underdevelopment, but because the film spends so much time meandering along meditating upon his contemptibility.

The main problem is its just too long, scenes dither and meander which ultimately detracts from any possible cinematic weight or substance.

But where the film fails is the long, meandering path to get to the climax.

with so many longueurs, meandering repetitions and futile flashbacks, you will easily find yourself drifting, no longer seeing the trees for all the wood - and wooden acting.

After their long road trip, the trio is happy to meander through the sprawling mansion and are mildly surprised to discover it comes with a formidable security system and bulletproof windows.

The problem is that the movie becomes more focused on diagnosis than character, and so what eventually unfolds is a meandering picture that only too late in the game leans toward highlighting any kind of thematic undercurrent while introducing romantic interests for the leads that do little but pad out an already too long running time.

No matter how much the movie goes on to confound or meander, and it confounds and meanders a lot, its core of a young girl traversing time and space in search of her long - lost father resounds.

The movie itself, unlike Spall's crusty and terse Turner, is long - winded, meandering and sometimes out of shape.

Despite having a story that could easily make for a pretty compelling journey, Miike and co. stretch it out and allow it to meander so much that interest in the outcome soon falls flat as you wait for it to come to its long - overdue and elongated conclusion.

Director Sidney Lumet has infused Serpico with an episodic feel that paves the way for a decidedly hit - and - miss atmosphere, with the movie's far - too - long running time of 130 minutes ultimately highlighting the meandering nature of Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler's screenplay.

The movie starts to drag in the latter half as it meanders towards its conclusion (there's no reason this needed to be almost two hours long), and it would have benefited from some stronger supporting characters, but «A Million Ways to Die in the West» is a really solid comedy with more than enough laughs to offset its minor shortcomings.

Over the course of nearly two and a half hours, the three supporting players — plus endearing, though overly earnest, Jennifer Hudson in the new role of Carrie's assistant — meander in and out, often dropping from sight for long periods, then suddenly reappearing to provide a convenient plot point or punny quip.

One HFPA member found it «thrilling,» though others griped that it was «long,» «meandering» and «tedious.»

An affectionate but meandering comedy that contemplates romance, fame, legacy and longing.

1 - Introduction 2 - Hydrological cycle 3 - Drainage basin 4 - Long profile of river 5 - Upper, middle and lower course 6 - V shaped valleys 7 - Waterfalls 8 - Meanders and ox bow lakes 9 - Mid test 10 - Flooding 11 - Boscastle mystery 12 - Boscastle ICT 13 - Flooding in Bangladesh 14 - Rivers GIS 15 - Revision

Between classes, students rush through the long and narrow walkway that architectural writers call «a meandering canyon» or a «paseo.»

The path to TFA was long and meandering, from an AS in electronic engineering to six years in sales and marketing in San Diego's vibrant tech sector to a BS in management science from UCSD.

The 350Z received its longest love letter from contributing writer Ronald Ahrens, who drove it some 5300 miles on a meandering round - trip from Ann Arbor to Los Angeles.

ORANGE COUNTY, CA — Meandering 1,015 metres above Lake Elsinore, the Ortega highway is a 44 - mile - long asphalt serpent connecting California's Orange and Riverside Counties via...

Sure, the Lane Departure Warning system will beep incessantly at you as 4200 lbs of sheet metal and dead cattle wander gently from one side of the lane to the other, but as long as nothing unexpected arises (say, a curve, or for that matter, a curb), you'll meander along quite gracefully, outwardly no different from the hordes of cell - phone - addicted commuters heading the same direction.

When I retired and settled permanently in Mexico, my idle meandering didn't last long, and I wound up starting a design and build firm that had startling success — but after five or six years and over a dozen «important» builds and at least fifty design projects, I was restless.

So don't make it easy for them to turn you down by dashing off a long, meandering, braggy letter!

The creek dividing the meadow meandered and, at its deepest bend, was lined with small weeping willows that grew as we grew and bent their long, willowy, tearful branches down over the water.