Sentences with phrase «more humdrum»

Unfortunately, natural disasters have a way of reminding us how important some of the more humdrum aspects of our financial lives can be, like the details of property and casualty insurance coverage.

This is a car that is far better than its more humdrum donor model suggested it would be.

Also, while it's true that the Audi S1 will retain a healthy proportion of its purchase price when it comes to time to sell, fast Fords are always in demand, and the residual values of the Focus ST are far more impressive than more humdrum Focus models.

It is more humdrum and plane.

Aside from discreet badging on the grille and boot lid, plus a pair of overly large oval tailpipes, the SEAT is virtually identical to more humdrum versions of the hatchback.

And I'm puzzled why Lord Balcairn's kamikaze final Mr. Chatterbox installment was altered from the book's vision of the English aristocracy throwing down its jewels in a born - again frenzy to a more humdrum orgy.

However, most of them can be defeated quite easily and then you're off to run around more humdrum stages again.

There was nothing inventive or entertaining about this production — it's just more humdrum Hollywood hype.

Sleight is a strong feature debut for Dillard with great moments that tend to pick up the more humdrum bulk of the film.

More plain than it is ugly, and more humdrum than it is shrill, Sherlock Gnomes — a sequel to 2011's lukewarmly received Gnomeo & Juliet — is the very definition of middle - of - the - road children's entertainment.

Yet few have looked at how the more humdrum mid-term elections are organised.

When debate about an artist's merit no longer seems to have any point, one is left either with an icon of culture, too sacred to enjoy, or with a target of satire, brought down to our more humdrum level by a vaudeville lampooning of the unapproachable totem, as when graffiti artists paint a moustache on reproductions of the Mona Lisa.

What he was likely to doubt, however, was whether such heroism could possibly be displayed in his own less dramatic and more humdrum day - to - day existence.

I don't want to compare my experience to that of Moses, since I was only called to open my heart, but I find the scriptural account moving in that when Moses first notices the burning bush — a moment we have come to think of as a great theophany — the impression given by the text is more humdrum.

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As more consumers turn away from car ownership, the shift has produced a lot of humdrum offerings from places like Zipcar and Enterprise CarShare.

A résumé can be so much more than a biographical «humdrum» of skill - sets, education, and accomplishments.»

We'll get more output per labor unit, forever liberating people from humdrum drudgery.

Managers can identify what the office housework is in their department and who is doing it, and spread out these humdrum assignments more evenly.

No man has insisted on this more vigorously than Baron von Hügel, who with all his deep faith in the fullness of our Lord's embodiment of God, was yet ever ready to maintain that in other religious traditions, and likewise in science, art, philosophy, ethics, as well as in the simple humdrum experiences of daily life, God in some way and to some degree has been found and known.

Yet one of its most important moments happened in the humdrum privacy of a morning shootaround last Thursday, when power forward Chris Bosh — among the NBA's more serene stars — had a rare alpha episode of his own.

Batting practice, with many fans hardly paying mind to the humdrum workouts, can be even more dangerous than games.

The rest of the first half was relatively humdrum, with more fouls than chances (Vitolo alone committed five fouls).

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Exorcist II unsuccessfully tweaks the formula by relying on fantastic settings to compensate for its humdrum pacing, and Exorcist: The Beginning discards the realism mandate altogether while Dominion could use a little more uncanny flair.

I consider this more or less balances the murky yet predictable plot and humdrum cinematic styling.

The truth is more complicated and humdrum.

It's a shame, because a unique picture focused on conversation ends up getting compromised by the sort of humdrum plotting found weekly in more standard fodder — yet another example of the gift of gab getting trumped by the gift of drab.

That is, it pivoted away from the humdrum third act beat down to find something much more personal and intimate.

The revelation of the person responsible for Jessica's disappearance isn't so much a twist as an inevitable, easily foreseeable turn; a fairly humdrum climax fails to compensate for the disappointing lack of surprise — rendering this Gift more akin to a lump of coal, albeit one with an uncommonly inviting sheen.

The hard - R sequel provides room for growth that the context of a humdrum origin story could not bear and even the compulsory CGI slugfests feels more grounded in a legitimate sense of stakes and thereby infinitely more watchable.

Her performance as Lady Bird in Greta Gerwig's loosely biographical (she denies it, but...) coming of age movie about a teen growing up in Sacramento in a middle class family who yearns for something more than the humdrum life in the suburbs.

Director Mike Tollin and writers Kevin Falls and John Gatins» already humdrum material is made more vapid by the leads.

Regardless of the possible roll out for the UK and Europe, the new GRMN Yaris and its corresponding GR sub-brand is more evidence that Toyota is serious about ditching its humdrum image.

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This Gen 2 car does the humdrum stuff as well as ever, and it's also ridiculously rapid, but the boost zone is now broader and more linear, so that addictive whizz - bang explosiveness has morphed into a sustained and ever more insistent s - q - u-e-e-z-e of acceleration.

But even better, the Avalon ditches humdrum looks catered to the geriatric motoring club for a far more dramatic design.

But with a five - door body from the humdrum Focus, the new RS is more reserved than the previous model from six years ago.

This car, based on the humdrum A-Class, features many changes to the whole vehicle to make it more powerful, faster and involving to drive.

She's older, more confident - the kind of girl who can walk right out of her humdrum life, hitch to Ireland and find her mum.

I recognize that failing to plan is planning to fail but going with the humdrum of life seems to be more interesting for most of us.

And while the idea of investing your pension on your own or even hiring a pro to do it for you may seem like a sure - fire way to generate more income than humdrum annuity payments, investing also opens you up to a variety of risks.

While it can surely be a window to the wider world, it is even more so a mirror to the secret sanctums of your soul; those closeted recesses that, back home, we wall off with the pretty patina of Facebook photos and drown out in the daily din of humdrum happenstance.

With detailed advice on cultural offerings in New York, Paris, San Francisco, Berlin, and more, Travel + Leisure elevates your itinerary from humdrum to heavenly.

Such future games as might attain to this title could come from anywhere in the world — they are as likely to come from Chile as from Europe and the United States, where commercial pressures make storytelling in games take rather humdrum and conventional paths, more influenced by Hollywood action movies than anything else.

All the humdrum elements of a typical freemium game are in place — arbitrary wait times between gameplay that can be sped up by paying money or watching ads, a freely distributed in - game currency and a more important premium currency, minimal interactivity, and an obligatory disrespect for the source material.

Score Rush feels a good bit like Mars Matrix in that regard, itself a fantastic shooter with humdrum enemy design where the opposition feels like little more than placeholders for players to train their lasers upon.

You can learn about websites and about how to sell art online here — but I hope that if you do learn something at The Abundant Artist, I hope you learn that art is your unique selling point, your creativity is your unfair advantage, and that you have the ability to make your passion into something that is more than just a humdrum existence.

The slide - sequence of the shallow stream captures and evokes a very liquid kind of vision, its apparently humdrum subject making it all the more engrossing and wonderful.

Still, one is never quite sure where to stand or, more precisely, where one stands in an encounter with Murphy's close - cropped, meticulously realist, bigger - than - life renderings of humdrum things and scenes.

And to make things yet more difficult for its business managers, even bills which the government might have expected to be fairly humdrum and uncontroversial have, perversely, found themselves in the spotlight, thanks to events, dear boy, events.