Sentences with phrase «plodding around»

Howard Bashman over at How Appealing picked up on an 8th Circuit case decided yesterday, ruling in favor of seven people who had been arrested in Minneapolis for protesting «consumerism» by dressing up like zombies and plodding around during the 2006 Aquatennial.

«Monitoring» a gas in the atmosphere seemed just dull plodding around a beaten track, calling to mind the discredited statistical climatology of an earlier generation.

It'll be more comfortable for everybody plodding around LA, but it leaves the Wrangler as the last holdout in the live axle department.

Sure, plodding around in a box is amusing for a few minutes, but that's about it.

Those are the 1 - 2 hour cardio sessions where you're plodding around on a treadmill watching the clock tick by, bored out of your mind.

He who often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe... The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity.

Xhaka merely plodded around the pitch with little positive effect and is a liability around his own penalty area.

When you want, the GS 450h lets you plod around in highly adjustable sofa - like chairs, insulated and isolated from excessive engine noise or road harshness, while netting fuel efficiency not far below hybrids with less than two - thirds the power.

In Comfort mode, you can plod around town over speed bumps and patchy surfaces, and not feel too ruffled.

Not exact matches

Instead of plodding through your daily routine, oblivious to the opportunities around you, pay attention to how you interact with different products.

I know there are earlier ones, but the first one that popped into my head was when my son was about a year, and starting to walk by pushing this toy on wheels; early in the morning, before anyone in our neighbourhood was up, we'd walk around the block, me in my pjs with a mug of tea, the rising sun shining on his bright little face, as he plodded that LONG distance (for his little strides) beside me.

Jump Around Plod through a 20 - minute warm - up jog if you wish, but you could get better results in under a minute, suggests a study in the Journal of Applied Physiology, which found that the fatigue caused by lengthy warm - ups can compromise your workout.

Roundabout is simply overflowing with personality, offering the best bad acting around and clever missions that even make the aggravating city exploration worth plodding through.

Things begin on a sour note as a powered - down Kat is forced through a series of plodding missions that more or less amount to walking around and talking to people.

The first half of the film plods along as the actors stand around flatly delivering telegraphed punch lines.

As for the musical numbers: The three new songs, including a plodding ballad that the Beast sings while brooding around his castle, are unfortunately forgettable.

Tractors can easily zip around the map, while harvesters bob - and - plod like you would expect them to.

And then, after a long day of schlepping around for photos, we finally escaped the tourist - packed summer towns and our plodding photo car for a chance to attack the wide sweepers of northwestern Michigan's M - 22.

Around town, the 1.6 - litre four delivered decent levels of torque for plodding along in a higher gear — with little in the way of labouring.

But none of these characters stick around for long, as Hans keeps taking up the story in his plodding and uninflected voice, and even Chuck's story gets buried in the far less engaging story of Hans» reunion with Rachel.

I advised that she should probably shop the book around to a few agents as her due diligence, but I was fairly certain she wouldn't be satisfied with the plodding world of traditional publishing.

We can walk through crowds with large trucks going past and he just happily plods next to me watching all the people around him because he knows he can defer to me when he's not sure.

I detested the plod of the story, the endless scrambling around in dark tunnels and the mind - numbing puzzles, and the Lara Croft character made me cringe, frankly, with disgust: grown men drooled over a collection of pixels arranged into a pretty shape, as the designers made her ever more pneumatic in each sequel.

After four or five hours as the relatively plodding Haytham in Boston, playing as Connor running across the branches and around the trunks of the forest is the essence of freedom.

I can not overstate the game - killing absurdity of four players running circles around a boss emptying hundreds upon hundreds of rounds into his head, refilling their ammo, and doing it over again while the boss slowly plods after them like a fat kid who wants his lunch box back.

But dragging themselves around town every weekend with methodical intent, plodding through house after house, maybe with kids in tow, certainly isn't my idea of a joyful way to spend a weekend.

While limited partnerships whipped around the market, luring investors with soaring returns on investment and hefty tax writeoffs, real estate investment trusts (REIT) just went plod - plod - plodding along.