Sentences with phrase «so humdrum»

These were so humdrum before you got your hands on them.

So far, so humdrum.

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A résumé can be so much more than a biographical «humdrum» of skill - sets, education, and accomplishments.»

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.

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

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.

Just over a year ago, they were revelling in the travails of Wojciech SzczÄ ™ sny so another promotion back into the Premier League may seem humdrum.

And why describe these practices as risky and courageous when they are so obviously rule - governed, humdrum, and clear?

But with so many humdrum films being made, we welcome any technology that will boost the audience - engagement factor.

«So it's not humdrum; it's exciting in that sense.»

While the old - school comic book feel refreshingly replaces the humdrum bravado of the Hulks and Fantastic Fours of late, one can only handle so much Greek mythology, Nazis, and egg.

No one ever paid much attention to Muriel (Collette) and her humdrum small - town life, so she and her best friend, Rhonda (Griffiths), decide to leave it behind and head for the big city... where...

Images become the very poetry the humdrum and confusing, if functional and cohesive, story seeks, especially in juxtapositions of Hong Kong's neon and concrete jungles and the transitional title credits, so fragile that they crumble from the faintest touch.

Worse yet, there's so little inspiration, and even less attention to detail, to this newest incarnation of Bond's iconography that it becomes difficult to parse the genuinely intriguing stuff from the grisly humdrum of it all.

Joining the video is a surprisingly tame DD 5.1 track; of course, the song selections are so banal that they wouldn't give the speakers a workout under the best conditions, but aside from some decent low - end for the sci - fi components, the mix is as humdrum as the movie itself — although the audio on the DVD is without any serious defects.

The revelation of the person responsible for Jessica's disappearance isn't so much a twist as an inevitable, easily foreseeable turn; a fairly humdrum climax fails to compensate for the disappointing lack of surprise — rendering this Gift more akin to a lump of coal, albeit one with an uncommonly inviting sheen.

The upcoming summer movie season promises to be one of the biggest in years, so it's a bit of a surprise that studios are limping (rather than sprinting) into that period with such a humdrum selection of films.

Compared to what their bodies are experiencing under stress, staring at a blackboard or solving repetitive math worksheets just seems humdrum and mundane so they can't totally focus on it.

The H1 had died, and Hummer had only the humdrum H2 and the laughable H3 in its lineup, so an H3 with a truck bed would've totally made sense and saved the brand, right?

This Gen 2 car does the humdrum stuff as well as ever, and it's also ridiculously rapid, but the boost zone is now broader and more linear, so that addictive whizz - bang explosiveness has morphed into a sustained and ever more insistent s - q - u-e-e-z-e of acceleration.

All this comes in a package with bold styling without any of the humdrum that makes some crossovers look so boring.

When I was in my pajamas, I raised the shade again so I could get the maximum benefit from the experience, lying straight as a mummy in my little coffin - bed of rebirth, hurtling through one town after another where people steeped like old tea bags in their humdrum lives, speeding farther away by the minute from Earl - dom and all the other bottlenecks I had narrowly squeezed through.

One tells me, off the record, that such sites tend to be too inclusive, bringing «humdrum» standards to the task so that unremarkable material is awarded as quality work; in short, a failure to dependably identify higher quality books.

While it can surely be a window to the wider world, it is even more so a mirror to the secret sanctums of your soul; those closeted recesses that, back home, we wall off with the pretty patina of Facebook photos and drown out in the daily din of humdrum happenstance.

When you get away to the Sunshine Coast you get away from the everyday humdrum — so make the most of it and go exploring everything this fantastic Queensland destination has waiting for you.

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We're not sure what exactly took them so long and why they have decided to make it available so late, that too in such a humdrum manner.

Recruiters flip through applications quickly, so don't remain another face in the crowd with a humdrum breakdown of skills.

The thing I really like about the festive season is how it's so easy to get lost in it all so you can really forget about the day - to - day humdrum of life.