Sentences with phrase «slavish working»

Remaining true to the brand meant avoiding some of the most notoriously unlikable elements of traditional outsourcing: massive and depressing call centers, slavish working conditions, and resulting work that is less than stellar.

Not exact matches

His assaults on public education, his slavish giveaways to the wealthiest New Yorkers, his obvious disinterest in poor working people are repulsive to me and to a lot of people here.»

The original's commitment to tension and tone worked far better than the slackly - edited split personality of this film - a comparison almost directly invited by slavish repetition of many of the first film's story beats.

Director Donald Rice, working from a script co-written with Mary Henely Magill, adapts Julia Strachey's 1932 novel of the same name with a slavish devotion to the literal that borders on suffocation.

Yes, she's a vampire who feeds off the blood harvested by her guardian (Richard Jenkins, a hollow man with failing skills so deadened by his work that slavish devotion alone drives him).

One of the reasons that Prince Caspian works so well is that the creative team [writers Stephen McFeely, Christopher Markus and Andrew Adamson, who also directed] took the key elements of the story and built an epic tale around them without feeling the need to be slavish in their adaptation.

It is better to profit from finding market errors than a slavish devotion to what worked last month or last year.

Shaw's dedication to abstraction coincided with the ascendancy of social realism in the United States, when American artists working in abstract forms were sometimes disregarded as slavish imitators of European painting.

Such slavish adherence to current market trends has been the failure of other nonprofits, such as LAXART (where Garcia used to work).

His 2009 work, Walthamstow Tapestry, satirised our slavish devotion to brands — and yet his recent exhibition at the British Museum was sponsored by the luxury brand Louis Vutton, as well as a City firm, Alix Partners.

One can rephrase the question slightly and still be a «profitable» lawyer who works less than 1200 hours per year in a law fim that bills its clients without slavish reliance on the billable hour.

I'm not talking about slavish plug and chug copy, I'm referring to the relatively hi - tech reconstruction work done to clean up old audio and video.

In general, «slavish copying» (generally interpreted as making a best - effort attempt to re-create the original work in a new medium) does not attract a new copyright.

Slavish copying of a work protected by copyright without consent is sometimes called theft.