Sentences with phrase «own humdrum»

We've assembled a group of fantastically successful companies in incredibly humdrum industries to show that being boring is a desirable business strategy.

But competing over humdrum necessities that have the lowest profit margins, such as toiletries and laundry detergent, seems like a mug's game to Mark Foote, the former CEO of Zellers, who was tasked with winding down the outgoing Canadian retailer when Target assumed its leases in 2012.

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.»

It's about as humdrum an item of apparel as you can get.

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

Walk past the windows of Fossil, Build - A-Bear Workshop, Guess — humdrum chains you can find in any mall in America.

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

Of course, 2016 was shaping up as a fairly humdrum affair itself until Election Day, with year - to - date gains on the leading benchmarks in the mid-single-digit range.

So while it's easy to get exasperated by the obsession with the humdrum at these meetings, analysts» financial nit - picking is kind of crucial — especially with visionaries like Musk.

A humdrum, fifty - dollar - a-barrel price outlook for next year is part of a recipe to stifle investment, mute production growth and burn off inventories.

But they also provide a place to sleep, have fun and mingle with colleagues — not in humdrum office parks, but in exotic locations around the world, in the European countryside close to urban centers or in warm - weather destinations like Bali.

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.

Stripped of any belief in the kind of higher consolation that makes sense of life's inevitable injustices and humdrum frustrations, the demands that people place on the political system «become as infinite as the infinity they have lost.»

The workplace is not a humdrum locale, where nothing ever happens; it is, potentially, the place where God's kingdom may become visible.

Thanks for your posts evening out Iggy's posts that was getting a bit humdrum and ofttimes annoying

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.

As many a TV situation comedy has demonstrated, human finitude can be very funny, and Auden heightens the humor by suggesting that the humdrum is caught up in salvation history.

Friends of religion, in contrast, find support for their views in Berger's criticisms of the limitations of everyday reality, in his argument for the role of overarching canopies of meaning, and in his openness to the possibility of «signals of transcendence» that break through the sheltering humdrum of everyday life.

It is not the routine, humdrum marking of time in our daily lives, or the terror and dread of devastation.

But it is also impressive to note how an otherwise humdrum or tedious job can be made bearable, enjoyable, and even a place for growth when people of good will act cheerfully, courteously, kindly and caringly toward one another.

She gives us pictures of how women can find a thrilling, transformative love that fits into real life, right in the middle of all the humdrum things we're perpetually pestered with, like financial worries and annoying relatives.

Carl Sagan claimed that «we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe».

Inevitably they spill some of it into the humdrum of ordinary life.

My astonishment alternated with a humdrum certainty: «Of course.»

On the surface, Paterson's life appears to be regimented and humdrum.

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.

Thus, in 1839 Richard Wagner makes a hasty escape from political intrigue, personal bankruptcy, and the humdrum of provincial life in Riga, again by sea; and it is this nautical misadventure that was to inspire his Flying Dutchman and, ironically, lay the foundations for his eventual success as a composer.

Through Christ there is a height and depth in life made available to a humdrum man or woman who has never climbed mountains nor descended into the depths.

Along with these radiant moments comes the abiding that is neither towering nor spare but steadily evident in the humdrum and hand - over-hand routines of our waking hours.

It is perhaps an unusual place to start, though, because our everyday lives tend to be plains of humdrum daily existence rather than peaks on which the gods visibly dwell.

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.

They know only the humdrum of existence with its duties and demands, its bits of hopes and joys, its many sorrows and its final death.

Your very uninformed and people like you should be booted off the web for humdrum.

Break out of your humdrum habits by trying something new each day.

This is not a humdrum lemon pepper seasoning.

Okra is a vegetable high in vitamins and nutrients, but that doesn't mean it needs to get stuck in a humdrum veggie dish.

Don't be part of the humdrum herd milling around the grill.

With this delicious list I'll never again have an excuse to settle for a humdrum salad.

Luckily the farmer's markets will be opening before I know it, so I won't be as tied to my humdrum supermarket.

Easygoing if a bit humdrum, the biscuity and gently bitter lager should be your go - to the next time you find yourself in Armenia.

Turbo Coffee, an appropriately Instagrammable espresso bar inside Greasy Hands barber shop in Florence, Alabama, is currently selling this summer's answer to humdrum iced coffee.

Life is much less humdrum.

One of these blue holes, half a mile from the southwest end of the reef, holds the vital parts of a mysterious ship — a vessel that attracts because so much is known about it and yet so little; its main cargo could have been gold and silver or merely a humdrum lading of cheap goods.

Affectionately known as Hound or Mutt to his teammates, Kelly is Philadelphia's designated hitter who usually steps onto the ice only when Shero feels the pace of a game has become too humdrum.

Lack of sure - shot double - play man at second base hurts, as does humdrum bench.

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.

There's the humdrum reality of having a stadium an hour's drive south of the city its team is named for.

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