Sentences with phrase «than watching paint»

There are plenty of trad published books that are more boring than watching paint dry or more vapid than a sparkly vampire.

Is it also more exciting than watching paint drying or watching soccer?

«Night Moves» (Dec. 5 at Northeastern Illinois University; www.chicagofilmsociety.org) The programmers at the Chicago Film Society are as droll as they come, describing this 1975 mystery thriller from director Arthur Penn as «more fun than watching paint dry.»

I feel like watching a crisp cool is better than watching paint dry.

Let's put it this way — your investing strategy should be less exciting than watching paint dry.

Watching a savings account grow is worse than watching paint dry.

Not exact matches

A January study of more than 2,000 adults in the United States by Clarizen and Harris Poll discovered some employees would much rather watch paint dry (17 percent), commute four hours (12 percent) or endure a root canal (8 percent) than attend a boring meeting.

Interviews with more than a dozen former and current Mavericks employees in different departments, conducted during a months - long SPORTS ILLUSTRATED investigation, paint a picture of a corporate culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior: alleged public fondling by the team president; outright domestic assault by a high - profile member of the Mavs.com staff; unsupportive or even intimidating responses from superiors who heard complaints of inappropriate behavior from their employees; even an employee who openly watched pornography at his desk.

Then I can at last take up my other life long passion, watching paint dry, which is far more interesting than watching Arsenal under Wenger, these days.

So all l ask is he showcase it because watching paint dry is infinitely more entertaining than anything Terence does outside the ring (Besides the gangbanger stuff)

Like, don't go around saying «oh, my child will NEVER watch more than 10 minutes of TV a day» because I guarantee you, the first time you actually want to do something normal like blow dry your hair, paint your nails or use the bathroom without an audience, the TV becomes your best friend.

Watching a World War Two battle re-enactment of soldiers running across muddy wasteland and tanks firing in to the night sky, paints a much clearer picture than anything you can read from an exercise book.

Watch more than 30 artists paint outdoors while you enjoy barbecue, live music, a quick - paint competition and more.

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Watch Chauvet Cave in the valley of the Ardèche River in France is filled with paintings, engravings and drawings created more than 30 000 years ago, of cave

It's a compositional mess, somehow both gratuitously moralising and morally repugnant, duller than watching already - dry paint.

Final Fantasy MMOs are also stupid, I'd rather watch paint dry than play another crappy Square game.

More than six years in the making with the help of 125 specially trained painters, Loving Vincent is a uniquely animated film composed of 65,000 painted frames — Watch trailer below!

It's likely a testament to Lumet's steady directorial hand that A Stranger Among Us never quite morphs into the all - out trainwreck it threatens to become, with the film's watchable atmosphere - albeit in a this - is - more - entertaining - than - watching - paint - dry sort of way - ensuring that it never quite becomes the worst film in Lumet's solid body of work.

It's not so much an issue of she and Damon not having chemistry — and let it be known that together they are as exciting as watching paint crack and peel — than it is her performance in general (though she can cry on cue very well): stiff; robotic; flat as her body.

Worryingly, though, the film doesn't provide much beyond the level of watching paint dry, and its overwhelming sense of been here before «indie - ness» prevails more than anything else.

But the sunlight that couldn't be stopped shone on the red bread - box and on the bottle - green icebox and on the blue, marble - painted crock containing cucumber pickles and on the polished black enameled woodstove and on the pale blue safe with the pink floribunda roses painted on the two doors, and he watched all these take their true colors back to themselves and the faces of the men and Mrs. Parker take on the colors and shapes that they carried through daytime that were different from their faces at night under even the brightest light, somehow more supple and creased and softer really than at night, even if they looked more battered and old.

Stocks that gave more than 500 % return in 2017 Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow.

Cannon Beach, OR — July 2, 2013 More than 50 artists participated in the Cannon Beach Gallery Group's 5th Annual Plein Air & More Arts Festival which drew thousands to the coast June 28 - 30 to watch them paint and create throughout the town and on the beach.

I bought the premium version of this for the PC and ive felt more than a little let down if im honest, let me paint the picture... Step son engrossed in his DS, daughter asleep in her bouncer, gf watching tv, so i decided id bunker down for a couple of hours and give the multi-player a bash.

«But those characters... I've never actually watched paint dry before but it sounds more interesting than actually reading through these characters» plight.

Brilliantly combining world - serious and Miami playful, the Rubell Family Collection offered a mini-retrospective selected from its more than 6,300 works and 800 artists, as well as work commissioned for the exhibition from the likes of Mark Flood, Aaron Curry, Kaari Upson, Will Boone and, from newcomer Lucy Dodd, a room - long abstract painting inspired by Picasso's Guernica (watch her prices jump — the Rubells are opinion - makers, as we've seen with Hernan Bas among others).

That's all you need to watch - 5 videos, which will take less time than painting a single picture and teach you a lot more!

Smaller in scale than those paintings of her 2014 debut exhibition, the new work matches in surreal ebullience their predecessors, praised by Roberta Smith as «big, boisterous semi-abstract canvases (that) exude an impressive confidence... like close - ups of billboards or a tour through some outsize undergrowth in which nature has merged with several brands of abstraction, from early American Modernism to Color Field painting... (Silva) is already is tackling a lot with an astuteness and aplomb that make her a painter to watch.»

Yet, these paintings are less about the exhibition of Hylden's process than about the tensions that arise when two strains of time become one, when watching and making a show are no longer strangers to each other and must coexist somehow.

It's like you could watch paint dry all day rather than watch those really slick lawyer videos that just have no soul in them.

Trend watch: Coordinate your home's exterior palette with the interior by painting your front door just a few shades darker than your front entryway.