Sentences with phrase «much of a slog»

A fairly straight forward narrative kicks in later on to stop it getting too much of a slog and it's an original concept slickly presented.

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As the U.S. economy slogs along at a tepid pace, household incomes in much of the developing world are leaping ahead.

I recognize that this might seem a strange question, given how much we hear of stressed - out students, slogging through hours of homework and blizzards of standardized tests.

I personally don't think he'd have much appetite to be leader of the opposition, the hard slog.

Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins sought to make the case before the delegation — and before Cuomo himself — the slog of negotiating with Senate Republicans would not be as much of a problem should Democrats gain control of the chamber.

You are much better off doing a 20 - minute cross training circuit (burpees, jumping rope, jumping squats, etc.) than 45 minutes of slogging along on the elliptical.

But this may still feel like a slog to anyone who is tired of how this has come to dominate the subgenre, because there's not much else going on here.

With as much as they have riding on their shoulders, the fact that Minecraft: Story Mode hasn't turned into a heavy, Walking Dead-esque slog is a testament that you can still work through some deep subjects without needing to crush your audience beneath the heavy stone weight of dystopian reality.

The climax (as mentioned previously) and a poignant, but unsentimental finale help redeem matters after the long slog of the mid-section and I don't want to bash the film too much.

Running and gunning through the levels doesn't change much, but the variety of weapons and the core mechanics make what could have been a dull slog into a fun three - hour journey.

Yes, Hiddleston does his own singing, and he's actually pretty good, but that doesn't count for much when the rest of the film is a boring slog.

DQ1: The first game id pretty much completable in a few days slog and retains all the charm of the original with a facelift of sorts.

Apart from Black Panther, and the award nominated films, January and February have been slogs with not much in the way of laughs.

The film is a long slog through the jungle, and much of it is rather harrowing to sit through.

Consider how Marshall spends altogether too much time on the budding relationship of these non-characters and how at its semi-resolution, Syrena does something completely inexplicable, then something else completely inexplicable, leading to ambiguity not of the provocative kind but of the rudderless kind indulged in by people making it up as they go along, forgetting what they've left in and what they've left at the side of this endless slog.

Even talented rising star Jack O'Connell can't manage much with this slog of pain and canned uplift.

So any kind of movie that combines the things that appeal to the target audiences of these pop culture trends is going to be held to a much higher standard by Vince than some whimsical kitchy Wes Anderson slog about daddy issues, with adults dressed as children in amateur theater in monotone.

proves to be such a tough slog for much of its brief running time that periodic highlights like that are essentially (and ultimately) rendered moot.

Perhaps it's because it was less of a just war than its bigger sequel, perhaps it's that it was a particularly gruesome slog of mud and sacrifice, perhaps it was because America only entered the war three years in, but there's no doubt that the conflict has been seen in the movies much less than WWII, or even Vietnam.

Engaging in this repetitive slog for dozens of missions is tiring, especially since there isn't much else you do in any singular mission.

Such a system may seem out of place for a car designed to quickly eat up long stretches of the Autobahn, but is actually logical, considering a substantial number of these cars will no doubt spend much of their time slogging through urban gridlock.

At least the radar - based cruise control works smoothly, reducing stress during much of the interstate slog.

Like the BMW, the E43 is a model that was designed to provide a middle ground between a garden - variety E-Class and the hardcore performance of the E63 S. And, like the BMW, the E43 is much happier on your favorite back road or slogging through the daily commute than it is being pushed to 10 / 10ths out on a road course.

After logging my dozens and dozens of rejections, slogging through a really painful experience with an agent that wasted three years I could have been releasing books, and with the markets changing so much, I finally realized what I had to do.

Later ones were slogging, full of far too much boring philosophizing, and generally blah.

Spend too much time blogging trying to make money, and it kind of defeats the purpose of trying to escape the work slog of the rat race.

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 addition, the update also adds some brand new ground vehicles, which should make planetary adventuring much less of a slog.

Persona 5 - Shido's Palace: I don't hate it as much as a lot of the fanbase, but it no doubt is a needlessly convoluted mission that makes Atlus» otherwise amazing RPG a bit of a slog towards the end.

When Diablo III was released, I thought it was brilliant, but after completing much of the game I found myself wondering what else I should do apart from play through the long slog of the story again.

It could be the fact that no wrestler voices are featured in career mode, leading to silent swathes of awkward and unconvincing text to read, or it could be that just getting to the point where you can wrestle a match involves so much waiting through loading screens and wandering through the same characterless hallways, but career mode feels like an unrewarding slog.

The once tight and focused room - clearing action has become a dull slog through much larger open levels, with a cripplingly short field of vision.

The Senate spent much of the afternoon and evening slogging through seven proposed amendments, all of which were defeated.

We should be able to slog through our local streams, eat pretty much whatever we like, breathe the good clean air, and catch a fish that will not do us or our children damage, regardles of its weight or ours.

This is the hard slog of real - world change, and it's not going to be much fun, at least at the start.

Don't turn your resume into that much of an information dump; employers won't take the time slogging through to search for the facts they need.