Sentences with phrase «tedium for»

Because enduring the bland, open world tedium for each and every character — even for a single important character per Kingdom — is unfathomable to me.

And you can relieve the tedium for a little while, but you still will have to grind eventually — though, getting to choose where and when is nice (r).

Both films are meandering 2 1/2 + hour absurdities that seem to mistake tedium for profundity.

Wendy and Lucy is grim to the point of tedium for extended stretches.

Schizopolis represents a minor act of self - indulgence on the part of the sometimes eccentric Steven Soderbergh but results in major tedium for the viewer.

You will have a far more pleasant trip if you take your time, with frequent breaks to relieve the tedium for everyone.

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While I for one am absolutely thrilled about a reduction in time spent doing laundry (as it continues to feel like a treadmill of tedium today, I can only imagine the hours our grandparents wasted on the task), you could be excused for asking, who really cares?

With Insider Picks» definitive Buying Guides for everything from sheets, electric fans, Bluetooth speakers, and dorm room essentials, there's also really no reason to subject yourself to such tedium.

«So, yes, we deal with the tedium of time differences, currency fluctuations, regulation, complex tax constructs and a shipping industry that has very little time for small entrepreneurs like ourselves.

Listening to the hoopleheads debate the intrinsic value of Gold or lack thereof is like watching professional soccer — there will only be one point made for every 27 hours or so worth of back - and - forth tedium.

I like to take some credit for the existence of Wylio because it was my constant complaining about the tedium of incorporating photos into blog posts that inspired my husband and his friends to create it.

for example, repeatedly stresses, «tedium» and repetition are the enemies of aesthetic intensity.

I spend so many hours of my life waiting for things to cool — I love that this recipe doesn't require that sort of tedium.

An NBA team on the road survives all this — plus tedium and «Search for Tomorrow»

His notes on crowd reaction, for example, show that fans «go bananas» over aces as well as extended rallies as long as they do not exceed the tedium levels of 3 % or 4 % of the points played.

The main reason for the his success has been to find one simple argument and to repeat it to the point of tedium.

You may not care for reading the primary literature, or may be tired of the tedium of lab manipulations.

For those of you who aren't familiar with x-ray crystallography, I'll describe this horror show of a research field, which produces fascinating and useful data via tedium and — yes — blind luck.

The professor was setting up the overhead projector and slides, and I was preparing for two hours of tedium.

For casual players, Challenge provides all of the tedium of fishing with little of the pleasure, such as napping in the boat.

Other problems elevate the game to the height of tedium (why, for example, when buying and selling items can you not just cycle through the various mercs, rather than having to individually move each merc to the vendor?).

Apart from the tedium of waiting or someone to open that chest and discover the hidden body which the hosts have tucked away for the sake of a thrill, the unpunctuated flow of image becomes quite monotonous.

Mad of eye and teased of hair, Olympias, played with nose - flaring gusto by Angelina Jolie, was the mother of all monstrous mothers, a literal snake charmer whose love for her only son had the stench of incestuous passion and the tedium of the perpetual nag.

The tedium of driving through the Crimson Tollway for the 20th time drags the DLC down to an 8 out of 10.

Jean's laconic if purposeful manner as Julian makes him a charismatic oasis of cool in a world which is basically violent, frenzied, shouty and sweary: There's little depth of characterization, when everyone's simply seeking to gratify their urge for money, sex, drugs or or all three, as an escape from the tedium and the horror.

While the script buries him in the Patch Adams - isms, Ellefsen somehow rises out of the tedium with a more likable character than many of the previousones patently made for tearjerkers.

Yet, for close to two hours of road movie tedium, De Niro did what De Niro always does: Play the part on the page, and play it to perfection.

Although the tedium of extra screen tasks such as mapmaking and the lackluster story may do a disservice to the overall pacing, the intricate gameplay and strategy focussed battle system make up for the majority of its missteps.

More difficult is the tedium that often accompanies the addiction / recovery / relapse narrative — a problem currently up for deconstruction in Leslie Jamison's new memoir, «The Recovering,» in which the author frets that stories of sobriety get the literary equivalent of short shrift, unable to compel us the same way that stories of addiction do, with their manic highs and grand tales of misbehavior.

This is a new advance for Ceylan, whose semiautobiographical earlier films, while confessional and intimate, evoked a Chekhovian sense of social pathos through his characters» entrapment in the tedium and melancholy of the world around them.

Sure, these missions soon devolve into tedium as well, but for a brief moment, it is a fresh take on the Dead Island series.

Their marriage is in a severe rut and has been for years, but Jacobs spares us the tedium of backstory and exposition, or worse, the movie - friendly spectacle of angry voices and shattered crockery.

Refn talks about the tedium he felt shooting the car chases in «Drive» and how Christina Hendricks saved an otherwise dull scene, while Noé reveals his problems trying to get Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel to shoot a sequence he wanted for «Irreversible.»

For the overarching tedium at play, Refn still manages to wrestle strong performances from thinly written characters.

The whole tiresome affair is accompanied for the duration by quite possibly the most inane narration in cinematic history, with Freddy interrupting the tedium every few minutes or so with gems like «every note has a voice, every tune has a story», or some guff about setting rats» tails on fire.

I'm really unsure whether or not people will feel that this sequel is better or worse than the first film, but I'm scoring it less for the simple reason of tedium induced by the combined ill - spirited momentum of both films.

For TDM (hehe, tedium) published...

StudioCanal has debuted a new clip has arrived online from Swallows and Amazons, which sees the Walker children setting off on their adventure; take a look below after the official synopsis... SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Swallows and Amazons Swallows and Amazons follows four children dreaming of escape from the tedium of a summer holiday in -LSB-...]

Ahead of its release next week, a new trailer has arrived online for Swallows and Amazons, which stars Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, Kelly Macdonald, Jessica Hynes and Harry Enfield; check it out below after the official synopsis... Swallows and Amazons follows four children dreaming of escape from the tedium of a summer holiday in the Lake District with their mother.

This would not be a bad thing if it weren't for the fact that the plot is the least interesting aspect of the movie, and without much humor in it, tedium does creep in every once in a while.

Yet, speaking as someone who had to endure the tedium that was O Brother Where Art Thou which left me wondering if they were losing their touch, I can proudly proclaim myself a Coen Brothers fan once again, and I look forward to their work for many years to come.

They're fine and a nice break from the tedium of the plot, and the set up for the second chase is nicely timed (calling in assistance for an accident that hasn't happened yet).

Multiplayer in Mount & Blade: Warband makes life a bit less pathetic and truly extenuates one of the best parts of the game without the need for tedium: combat.

Director Gil Cates Jr. frequently aims for an atmosphere of casual evil that presumably means to comment on the usual themes relating to the emasculation inherent in the relentlessly competitive nine - to - five tedium of attempting to climb the corporate ladder to reach the expensive house, pert wife, and perfectly manicured lawn at the top.

It's one of those infernal ideas that Hollywood occasionally mistakes for brilliant even though it always becomes tiring (like Groundhog Day, The Truman Show, Her, and the granddaddy of conceptual tedium, John Frankenheimer's Seconds).

For every scene where the jokes lay dead or prolonged to the point of tedium, there is another one to get you falling out of your seat right after.

Such may be the case for children from middle - and upper - class homes, but for those whose families can't afford camp or other activities, summer is often a time of emptiness and tedium.

It's a tough, cruel world out there, and we're getting our scholars ready for the tedium, surveillance and authoritarianism they'll find in the workplace of the 21st century global hyper - connected flat world that superb educators like Arne Duncan keep telling us to prepare for.

At the time I was taking my own set of similar courses that were required for graduate students in my program who would be teaching undergrads, and I'd mentioned the mind - numbing tedium of abstract material that, best as I could tell, had no relevance to teaching anything.

Once we * do * address poverty (with more than selfishness, denial and resignation), the next steps to excellent education for all (that is, great public schools) are also obvious and proven (over and over and over): 1) Sufficient & equitable funding 2) Decent facilities 3) Strong teacher training 4) An end to reliance on high - stakes assessments that narrow the curriculum & reduce instruction to drill - and - test tedium