Sentences with phrase «rote manner»

Jane, however, notices the forced nature of Tom's half - hearted invitations to go out for dinner, or the rote manner in which he brings her flowers, so Tom gets no credit for this either.

Procedures are not learned in a rote manner.

This can even occur in beginning classes, where teachers tend to have students rehearsing words and patterns in a rote manner.

And as the chorus underlines, there are a lot of these friends of his pairing off: «Joyce and Terry, Paul and Molly, Liz and Bryan,» and on and on with five more couples listed, sung in a sing - song but rote manner.

Not exact matches

A lot of the mechanics in the script by Benjamin and Paul China (billed as «The China Brothers» in a perhaps too - obvious nod to the Coens) are boilerplate familiar to the point of being rote, but the manner in which they're assembled and played out by sophomore director Jamie M. Dagg and his expressive cast of weathered character actors largely redeems them.