Sentences with phrase «thankless task in»

Overview: Tobacco and Freedom (The Heartland Institute) «Defending smokers is a thankless task in today's politically correct environment, and Bast doesn't deny that smoking is an unhealthy habit.

Working again with director Jeremy Saulnier, Blair had perhaps the most thankless task in Green Room, literally moderating between the ice cold portrayal of Patrick Stewart and the more kinetic travails of the punk band at the center of the narrative.

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In the face of such a powerful attack from the point of view of modern egalitarian ideology it is a thankless task to defend the hierarchical aspect of Japanese civil religion, and I will not attempt to do so.

Preparing artichoke hearts can be a thankless task that leaves your hands streaked with black lines for hours; fortunately, frozen artichoke bottoms are easy to find and absolutely delicious, and lend themselves to numerous dishes in addition to this one (stuffings, soups, salads).

Searching for intrigue in Europe's World Cup qualifying can often feel like a thankless task.

Giroud 6.5 Worked hard in a thankless task against the Chelsea defence but struggled to influence the game.

As a former defensive midfielder, I have found myself in the position that Flamini was in before half - time and it is a thankless task.

Signed from Southampton in 2007 as a highly - rated young left - back, Bale was transformed from an inconsistent, injury - prone defender into one of the most dangerous attackers in world football while at Spurs and holding onto him without the allure of Champions League football, was always going to be a thankless task.

This may be a bit of a thankless task for the Swans in this one.

Argentina international Javier Mascherano has revealed that it was a thankless task of playing in central defence during his seven - and - a-half year spell with Barcelona.

Ireland's approach in Copenhagen was pragmatic to say the least with lone striker Daryl Murphy handed the thankless task of trying to battle the home defence with little support before Shane Long took up the baton.

They were also getting a lot of joy down Blackburn's right - hand side, with Bacary Sagna building a concatenative relationship with Gervinho - Gael Givet had a thankless task as he was often outnumbered, with David Hoilett looking disinterested in doing any defending.

That gives them a shot at getting out of the drop zone in midweek, but there is a bit of a thankless task ahead of them.

I keep trying, but it's an endless, very boring, thankless task that no one else is interested in.

Eighteen years in opposition after 1979 taught him that it is a thankless task.

Making a movie about the writing of a book is a thankless task — no matter how you spin it, there is absolutely nothing interesting in watching a writer sit down and put together sentences and paragraphs.

Love is pain and opening yourself up to its possibilities a thankless task guaranteed to end in heartbreak and despair.

Even more impressively, Johnson has taken the thankless task of making what is essentially a bridge between the two of other film in the trilogy, and made it a standalone film that can be taken, and enjoyed, on its own.

Agent Stansfield (Tommy Lee Jones) draws the thankless task of keeping the Blakes in line, but between Fred's violent streak, Mrs. Blake's (Michelle Pfeiffer) penchant for committing arson and the entitled attitudes of the Blakes» teen kids, Stansfield's job is next to impossible.

Fegley, who starred in Pete's Dragon last year, has a pretty thankless task here, lost and alone despite his determination, and not remotely equipped to handle his newfound lack of hearing.

The main problem is that the characters in Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro's screenplay are given the thankless task of describing the plot with their dialogue, rather than through their actions.

His counterpart in the redo is Dylan Walsh who, frankly, has taken on an utterly thankless task.

(6:00) introduces us to Susan Henning - Schutte, who had the somewhat thankless task of filling in for Hayley Mills in shots where split - screen effects would not be needed.

It's a thankless task to sequelize TRON, yet director Joseph Kosinski (making his feature - length debut) finds majestic inspiration in the digital world, bestowing Legacy with a breathtaking sense of scale and mystery, augmented in the film's victorious 3D and IMAX enlargements.

Granted, Vikander's part is a relatively minor one, the thankless task of playing a Russian moll, but she acquits herself admirably and the camera clearly loves her in this hardly original but thoroughly enjoyable thriller.

Like many other specialized production tasks that have been thrust into our laps in recent years, doing these format conversions has to rank as one of the most thankless.

At times, it was a little bit of a thankless and monotonous sort of task, but it's certainly worth it in hindsight.

One of them is a thankless task, one of them results in delicious bananas.

The art critic confronts this consensus and tries to express an independent, individual opinion in spite of it — a thankless task.

But of course, the problems real people actually care about are thankless tasks that require leaders to make sacrifices in pursuit of their duties, not fun opportunities to take luxury vacations in Paris and spend billions of dollars in other peoples» money.

Week in and week out, a string of legal bloggers take on the thankless task of editing Blawg Review, the weekly carnival of law bloggers that reflects the best buzz of the legal blogosphere as seen by each successive editor.

In a series of posts, I've used invoice review as a point of departure to talk about analytics and algorithms because the idea of machines taking on more of that thankless task should scare no one.

Like many parents, you may be frustrated with what seems like the endless and thankless task of strapping your child in and out of a car seat several times a day.

Vermeys says there is some merit to performing thankless and menial tasks because it is, in many ways, how lawyers become good and experienced.

It was a thankless task, but it did involve mapping (and quantifying) every single legal publishing brand in the UK at the time from book title to global corporate.

The finders bring in the clients, the minders manage them, and the grinders, well, they carry out the time - consuming, sometimes tedious, and often thankless, tasks for the rest of the group.

But overall, working the committee circuit is a thankless task, and unless you have a group that understands business (outside of real estate), nothing much is to be achieved in the real sense.