Sentences with phrase «something of a slog»

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«The main message, though, is that the exciting growth from the middle of 2016 up until the middle of 2017 is now truly in the past, and the economy is back to the drudgery of slogging out something closer to potential of around two per cent,» Porter wrote in a note to clients.

Rather than wait for a kindly benefactor to appear and reward your years of hard slog, there is something practical you can do.

The consequences of leaving a job tend to outweigh staying at something that doesn't make us happy, though, so we continue to slog through.

Consider how Marshall spends altogether too much time on the budding relationship of these non-characters and how at its semi-resolution, Syrena does something completely inexplicable, then something else completely inexplicable, leading to ambiguity not of the provocative kind but of the rudderless kind indulged in by people making it up as they go along, forgetting what they've left in and what they've left at the side of this endless slog.

There's something a little depressing about watching a talented actor like Jose Ferrer (who, near the start of his career, worked with filmmakers like Otto Preminger and John Huston) slog his way through junk like Zoltan... Hound of Dracula, and though he does deliver a surprisingly effective performance, it's just not enough to disguise the movie's many, many deficiencies.

Fast Five, released a decade after the first movie, not only reinvigorates the series» commercial prospects, but accomplishes something far more vital: It saves the last five hours of my movie - watching from becoming a slog through mediocrity.

There are thousands of other, more engaging things that they could be doing rather than slogging through something that bores them.

I went this route because of my own time crunch at home (the submissions slog seems unruly at this time), the gamble that Amazon's marketing is effective at selling e-books and the shot at something new.

Even if you've set it to short weekends, meaning you just do one practice session, a streamlined qualifying and a shortened race, it'll still take around an hour to an hour and a half to complete each event, and with twenty in a season and you're looking at something of a long slog.

One of my very few gripes with the original game was that the slog to level / LP grind was extremely long, longer than your typical Final Fantasy experience (which is saying something!)