Sentences with phrase «mindless work»

Many times the act of learning from a textbook or a worksheet is monotonous, mindless work for our students.

Of the many teachers in our public schools, who have deep knowledge of subject matter and of how to engage youngsters» minds, most are in despair over the limits put on them by the mindless work demanded by high - stakes tests.

He stops by the residency of Dr. Frankenollie (voiced by Kelsey Grammer) who is offering the very amount he needs for «mindless work.»

The other day I was doing some cleaning and organizing and I was reminiscing about old times (and whatnot)... and you know how when you're sometimes just doing mindless work your mind starts to drift and you get random ideas and you go from one thing to another in 2.5 milliseconds in you head?

The mindless work piled before me did nothing in the way of strengthening my critical thinking skills, and it left me ill - prepared for the project - based learning I would later face in college.

Typically, we do mindless work first and build up to the toughest tasks.

Reinhardt may have written the rule with Duchamp's retirement and the readymade in mind; part of the same rule is «no mindless working or mindless non-working.»

Not exact matches

Not the get home from work and slump in front of the tube for hours of mindless consumption kind of obsession (that's just numbing out).

If you don't have time for a real break, take time away from your current sprint to work on something mindless.

The paycheck is good, and it's close to home, but the work is mindless and you're unappreciated.

When our brains are tapped out, we can still profitably spend time refilling them with new knowledge, catching up with our inboxes, pursuing hobbies, or powering through mindless but essential administrative work.

People are on this site to better their careers, find a new job, network, connect with business contacts, and to get a few minutes of mindless get - away - from - work time.

Those who engage in regular and systematic reflection on political / cultural issues will, unless they are utterly mindless, come to some set of interrelated conclusions — however tentatively held — as to how the world does and should work.

He is finding a sense of purpose and joy in this, and wants to offer a message to people who are stuck in a mindless pursuit of work, consumerism or an ideal life - style that always seems just out of reach.

Work towards progress, not mindless banter.

The sort of mindless t - it - for - tat violence has worked splendidly in the Middle East, no?

It was NOT a lot of work to do (sometimes I welcome a little mindless task) and the texture is amazing!

* People who have a problem with public breastfeeding, people who think violence is the best way to raise a child to be respectful, and people who think being a Stay At Home Mom is mindless, easy work.

Neglecting aesthetics might have made a kind of cruel sense in an older, assembly - line context, in which work revolved around mindless, repetitive labor.

In fact, previous work has already suggested that distracted, or «mindless» eating leads people to feel hungry, while more deliberate and mindful eating leads people to feel full.

I listen to them while I'm doing mindless tasks at work.

Whether it's the portion sizes at your local, a bout of intense work stress or mindless nibbling in front of the telly, there's a whole gamut of reasons why we eat more than what we need or when we're not hungry at all.

A higher level of the right hormones in the blood after a HIIT exercise has been shown to fight off various hormones that have been linked to feeling hungry — meaning while you can definitely work up an appetite with HIIT, it does seem like in the weeks that follow mindless snacking or eating will be reduced.

Of course, this works to heal any unhealthy behavior, whether the unhealthy behavior is binge eating, emotional eating, mindless eating, stuffing, yo - yo dieting, negative self - talk, food obsession, food addiction, binge / purge, or any other unhealthy behavior that is keeping you fat in mind and body.

So often I set a goal to read more books, but end up putting it off because it feels like more work than mindless television.

But I do want to discourage that mindless place we go, as we sit at our computers or on our phones at night that is halfway between work and procrastination.

Well, it is more work than mindless television, but your brain will thank you for the stimulation, and your body will thank you for some much - needed relaxation time.

It's mindless, stupid fun % u2026 and it works.

Zombie movies work quite well as mindless and bloody entertainment, and also when they are tied into larger social commentaries (such as in Romero's original Dawn Of The Dead and 28 Days Later).

I just wish that Stallone would look for something deeper to work on and not simply settle for stories as mindless and humdrum as this.

If you look at it from the perspective of mindless fantasy action, it work for the most part.

But in a time when so many action pictures are mindless assaults on the eyes, ears and intelligence, it works as superior craftsmanship.

To make resource collection a little less painless, it is possible to enslave NPCs and have them do some of the mindless grunt work.

It's great that veteran actors can keep getting work and they have every right to make a mindless bit of entertainment.

No filmmaker should strive to make a mindless action movie, but if that's what you end up with, at least they work.

With a PG rating, The Man Who Invented Christmas is heartwarming family fare for this holiday season: not a mindless piece of fluff but an intriguing story about a man whose work continues to resonate with readers (and filmgoers) around the world.

Though it works just fine as a piece of mindless entertainment, «The Great Wall» should have been better considering the level of talent involved.

That film is way more out there than «Life After Beth,» but at least it has clear direction and jokes that work, instead of just wandering around like a mindless zombie hoping to skate by on its clever title.

That film is way more out there than this one, but at least it has clear direction and jokes that work, instead of just wandering around like a mindless zombie hoping to skate by on its clever title.

There has to be something entertaining about Larry the Cable Guy for him to get so much work, but it's rarely on display in his latest mindless comedy, where the blatant racial stereotypes are outnumbered only by the flatulence jokes.

One of our greatest working actors has lost himself in crummy, mindless comedy.

Unless you're working on a mindless task, multi-tasking is not the way to be more productive.

The problem is that, because Chancellor Klein has tyrannized all teachers with mindless directives about their classroom practices, he has forfeited any chance of getting significant work - rule changes.

Cutting against the unquestioned trend of ever - more - ludicrous towing figures, towering «in - your - face» grilles, and absurdly jacked - up ride heights, Dodge engineers stepped back from the mindless braggadocio to create a vehicle that actually works smarter.

It's one of those days where you have finished your work and you're waiting for email replies, you know, mindless surfing the web for interesting stuff.

Swarm Of Mindless Robots Works Together «Very tiny pseudo insects that... can unite to form a superordinate system.»

Outside of work she loves to read, watch mindless action movies and explore natural place with her dogs.

My toes, cozy and padded by woolen socks in a new pair of work boots, bent with each chunk of frozen mud beneath them and sent fluffy, mindless snow bouncing away on my path.

Sakaguchi and Horii defined an entire fucking genre with their work and gave us such loveable and time - honored game mechanics as mindless grinding, random encounters, useless potions and skills, and severely padded story lines with lots of fetch - questing, back - tracking, menial labor... okay it wasn't all positive... in fact fuck all their other games.

We're thrilled to work with a publishing partner that rejects the tired mentality of churning through developers in the name of mindless sequels.