Sentences with phrase «sheer repetition of»

Whilst the air of familiarity helps to get into the flow of things early on in the game, the sheer repetition of a number of minor tasks becomes tedious and frustrating very quickly.

The sheer repetition of fighting through hordes of enemies fades, and in its place comes laughter.

By the sheer repetition of the merits of charter schools by these two powerful voices we see public opinion shifting.

Since it functions to free them from the necessity of sheer repetition of the past and to offer them alternative ways of constituting themselves, it is to be sharply contrasted with the coercive forces of the world.

Not exact matches

Referring to the success of U.S. government efforts to bias press coverage against Nicaragua, the organization Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) states: «By sheer force of repetition, the administration has driven home its anti-Sandinista propaganda themes in the media.

One of the ways in which certain kinds of texts or discourse close down the array of possible meanings, says Suleiman, is through sheer repetition.

«In grade three, math really kicks in, though I bet most parents can not follow along to the hopping, skipping, times table repeating song — again, an example of the sheer genius of combining play, movement, coordination, repetition, all leading to mathematical concepts and comprehension.»

The premise is full of possibilities for ludicrous scenarios and yet the developers still to a formulaic, lazy design template for missions that drives the fun combat into the ground through sheer repetition.

Whilst the demand for grinding is present in most RPGs though, I felt like I had no choice but to venture through earlier levels again in Penny - Punching Princess — there was rarely an opportunity to tough things out and see if you could progress through a mixture of skill and sheer luck, but instead had a dependence on simply becoming stronger through repetition.

Greenberg argued in his 1948 essay «The Crisis of the Easel Picture» that «the dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.»

As one last puzzle, one could call Johns's repetition a dogged determination in the face of death, Freud's «repetition compulsion,» the fate of art, or sheer joy.

«The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.»

«The sheer lack of repetition in her work is just dazzling,» says Jacqueline Humphries, one of several leading female painters in her close circle of friends, which also includes Cecily Brown, Laura Owens, Jutta Koether, Amy Sillman, and Emily Sundblad.

I kind of hate the whole idea, though — the «hiatus» meme is being driven by sheer repetition.

In my prior piece about the spread of Ross Gelbspan's accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid by the fossil fuel industry to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact ``, I barely skimmed the surface of the sheer number of repetitions of it.