Sentences with phrase «things by rote»

On one hand, going too far to the rules - based side will lead to an organization that is too rigid, with employees often doing things by rote that no longer make sense.

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They keep doing the same things and walking the same path, often by rote, only to end up in the same place they started.
For so long I have been making cookies by rote, with a little tweaking here and there to shake things up.
Nothing he said was by rote or offhand, and although I knew he had said many of these things before, he delivered his narrative so vibrantly I might have thought I was hearing him recount his feats for the first time.
Ben Affleck's villain is the best thing about the otherwise rote crime thriller Runner Runner, also starring Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton, and Anthony Mackie and directed by The Lincoln Lawyer's Brad Furman.
These people who make these things, they seem to edit them by rote (I know they do, actually; I've watched some trailers being built in the editing room).
«By relying so heavily on rote memorization, and by testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacityâ $» and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.&raquBy relying so heavily on rote memorization, and by testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacityâ $» and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.&raquby testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacityâ $» and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.»
«By relying so heavily on rote memorization, and by testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacity — and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.&raquBy relying so heavily on rote memorization, and by testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacity — and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.&raquby testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacity — and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.»
Then there are those (few) things I know because I learned them by rote.
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