Sentences with phrase «of a slog too»

Honestly, it's a bit of a slog too, throwing you into (basically) the same fights repeatedly, and it often feels quite low - stakes.

Not exact matches

, a couple of 6th place teams slogging it out... Neither team with a real scoring threat... Limited ball playing othenthan ozil and miki... No idea what tole wilshere is paying... spoke too soon

Arsenal had to fight hard to get all three points at Newcastle yesterday, and with many of our close rivals also winning, Arsene Wenger is sure that it is going to be a hard slog to hang on to a place in the Top Four, although he believes Chelsea are too far in front at the moment to be caught before the end of the season.

Focusing on successful models is an attractive approach for a narrative journalist, too, because people generally prefer reading emotionally resonant stories about individuals in pursuit of a worthy goal to slogging through lots of dry research and statistics.

At 16 tracks, though, Fifty Shades of Grey is a bit of a slog, with too many dreary midtempo numbers — by Sia, Laura Welsh and Skylar Grey — that only feel more glazed (and less enticing) the longer you listen.

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.

Sunday night's slog was further confirmation that Oscar season is just too long and that previous awards telecasts have upstaged the granddaddy of show - business awards.

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.

The pitfall of ensemble drama is that any strands that do engage are over too soon and, if mishandled, the condensed nature of each story takes its toll on potential subtlety... It's a two - hour slog stuffed with shortcuts, populated by puppets who must indulge in behaviour that isn't just off - kilter, it's off the wall.

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.

There are elements of a really fun movie here, but too often this winds up being a slog.

Director Francis Lawrence's movie has some smarts and some thrills, but too often it feels like a turgid, repetitive slog, especially compared to the excitement and the cliffhanger ending of its predecessor, «Catching Fire» (which Lawrence also directed).

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.

But it's a long slog and heavy - going (not that it was bad and wasn't essential viewing, but that it went on for too long and lost some of its entertainment value).

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.

High - performing students are not bored by breezing through items that are too easy for them, and lower - performing students are not discouraged by slogging their way through a large set of items that are too difficult.

Later, after slogging through many more textbooks in school, he decided, «There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting.»

As tends to be the case with fighters that boast expansive rosters, unlocking everyone can be kind of a slog, so you'll likely want to pace yourself lest you get burned out on J - Stars too quickly.

«So, this month I launched a novel into the e-market,» he writes, «the culmination of several months» slog, proofing the text, writing the blurb, doing the cover design (or, actually, paying someone to), getting the internal text layout right (or, actually, paying someone to), developing and launching a website (or, actually — yeah, that too).

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.

Yes, I know, I love Game of Thrones, too, but you have to admit it can be a slog sometimes.

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.

However, it can still feel a bit too repetitive and we found most of our enjoyment came from a quick mission or two rather than slogging through many at a time.

Whether or not the birds were too concerned about the conflict is hard to tell, but they remained abundant through his binoculars, which he'd don non-stop around base and «beyond the wire,» as he slogged through mud puddles, cruised the parameters, and traveled to all corners of the country (all the while enticing other soldiers to wonder about his strange «missions.»)

A very small portion of my job (no, I did not slog through getting a Bachelors and a Masters just so I could be in charge of making sure people's blood sugar doesn't dip too low in the afternoon) is office management — which means answering people's questions, ordering supplies, managing our space requirements, onboarding, etc..