The Google core business is, as usual, quite boringly efficient.
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Exactly because this modular phone feels so, well, boringly normal.
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And unlike America's figure, it also seems boringly stable (see chart).
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That might give the impression that German politics is boringly stable.
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For all its counterculture trappings, then, "Mass" is fundamentally, boringly conservative.
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Let's be honest: We all love you, but you're boringly cautious.
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Now, that competition is boringly named the Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition.
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Anderson Silva stalled Cormier out very effectively—if boringly—with a lockdown.
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To any entrepreneur, the idea of setting goals may sound boringly basic.
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Copper has been relatively neglected, precisely because it seemed so boringly range-bound.
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It is boringly self-congratulatory, obsequiously flattering both the audience and the filmmakers.
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As Franklin's group pointed out long ago, truth is often hard and boringly consistent.
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I drive a very boring vehicle (2013 Nissan Rogue), and I drive it very boringly.
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It's a fool's errand to try to make something truly good from something boringly bad.
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Riding in an old manual elevator makes you realize how boringly quiet today's elevators are.
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PK: And more boringly, we want to bring in people who run big, packaged-goods companies.
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The rare surrogacy that goes badly makes headlines, while the vast majority go delightfully, boringly well.
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" Zosia Mamet, who plays Shoshanna, agreed and admitted that they were all "very boringly well-behaved.
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He could have diligently, earnestly, and boringly tended to state affairs and appeared above it all.
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Enter I.T., a boringly-titled Pierce Brosnan movie about the dangers of the Internet of Things.
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You might wonder, rather, why legs beneath normal tables and supports are usually so boringly logical.
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As has become boringly predictable these days, conservatives are mad at other conservatives for being fake conservatives.
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The scene in the trailer where Amy's friends are shocked that her "sexy bra" is boringly functional?
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And everyone wonders why we so boringly talk about work and the weather upon meeting new people.
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Yet—boringly enough—Brazil turned out, in so many ways, to be far more familiar than they imagined.
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He rather boringly predicted a 3-0 victory for Arsenal with Sanchez scoring and Walcott getting a brace.
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Their opposition to Trump has given them undue credibility among Washington lefties, whom they relentlessly (and boringly) troll.
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Its boringly profitable and well-regulated banks did not crash the financial system in 2008 and ask for bail-outs.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, long Europe's most boringly stable leader, is facing a political predicament that could cost her her job.
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Patel's image is the latest contribution to the new satirical website Scary Immigrants, which documents the "boringly normal" lives of immigrants.
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David ends up trapped in an ice age in Manhattan (don't ask) and a 2,000-year-long time skip is really boringly narrated.
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So how do we go forward, understanding that that's just an unrealistic and very naïve and nostalgic — to me, boringly nostalgic — kind of whim?
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But even his larger sculptures in this show, pyramids bent toward the ceiling or sliced to expose their insides, make you feel boringly human.
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Colorado Civil Rights Commission have been boringly predictable: State your legitimate points, then mischaracterize or ignore the perspective of those with whom you disagree.
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With not a palm tree in sight and a reputation for being boringly well-run, Canada is an unlikely haven for crooks and tax avoiders.
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Eventually, the dirty-raincoat crowd abandoned this auteur, known as King Leer, for more explicit, and boringly literal, films starring Linda Lovelace and Marilyn Chambers.
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The only two clubs with bigger numbers on both platforms are Manchester United and, above them, the most boringly popular club in the world: Barcelona.
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It was 30 things to be exact, one item (or group of similar items) a day that I boringly posted in a single Facebook thread.
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I think there are a lot of rumours but, first of all, most of us are boringly normal, and secondly the size and shape shouldn't matter.
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And with the downplaying of politics, musicians boringly settled for clichéd statements about unifying as a community and how music "transcends" and "breaks" borders during the telecast.
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Improving batteries takes three main tacks: avoiding flammable liquids for a solid battery; making battery components fireproof; and, boringly, modifying slightly the existing features in a battery.
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"The Lovers" is a juicy receptacle for an artificial intelligence fever dream, disrupting and shaking up what is boringly cliché about the love of hand-made painting.
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Hamming up the role of the exploited musician, he plays the tunes resentfully, boringly, gracelessly, until inspiration suddenly strikes and he sets off on his own dazzling riff.
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In fact, they seem boringly contented, seeing the same friends they saw in childhood, eating the same food, wearing the same collared shirts tucked in the same way.
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In the wake of what seems like an increasingly calculated Met Gala and boringly serious Oscars (except for the men), this defining quality is starting to seem lost.
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It is not just that Mr. Trump's outrageousness has become almost boringly status quo; it is that he has gotten away with so much despite all the protests.
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In one recent video, Mila addresses a date with her friend Sawyer that went boringly wrong when he paid more attention to his sports league than to her.
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SINCE 2003 the boringly named Asset Administration and Disposal Service, or SAE, has sold off cars and houses seized by Mexico's government mainly from smugglers and tax-dodgers.
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Kavanaugh, though, was a boringly safe choice (nothing against the man himself), and there's every reason to assume that his hearings will be boring (and therefore useless) as well.
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Now, of course, it is next to impossible for people like Jennifer Aniston or Justin Timberlake to do the boringly normal stuff the rest of us take for granted.
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There's a line in Philip Roth's Great American Novel, an otherwise forgettable slog through a boringly imagined fictional baseball season, in which the barnstorming team plays against a prison squad.
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The media has been poring over the outcome of a race, in a staunchly conservative district on the edge of Phoenix, that would normally deliver a boringly predictable Republican win.
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Spain's once boringly bi-party politics has become a five-party kaleidoscope with the emergence of the hard-left Podemos, the centre-right Ciudadanos and most recently the hard-right Vox.
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The Didion comparison irks me mostly for how boringly lazy it is, especially when it is used by writers, whose job is presumably to write original thoughts composed of original words.
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She describes how, in curling, a skilful player may have to bow to the team's interest and take a boringly safe shot, rather than "have a showtime" and try for personal glory.
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Real Madrid, Juventus and Bayern Munich take a greater share of their leagues' profits—indeed, each Spanish team negotiated its own television deal until 2015—allowing them to maintain their boringly dominant positions.
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But in the short and medium term, the oil market will remain "boringly rangebound" with prices possibly coming under downward pressure in the first few months of 2018, when demand would typically weaken.
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Yext's first earnings report as a publicly traded company seems to be a boringly pleasant one — but that's a good thing for a company that needs to show strong performance out of the gate.
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"We detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google," the company wrote in a boringly titled blog post.
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It is revealed early on that the mission's ratcheting body count is the work of an onboard artificial intelligence (displayed, boringly, as a HAL-style red light that glows ominously whenever anything horrible happens).
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The combat, which mostly consists of mashing the same button and occasionally dodging, is painfully and boringly simple, a problem exasperated by the game's tendency to overly rely on gauntlet encounters towards the end.
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To the sort of casual observer who is blessed to not follow legislative markups and daily Twitter skirmishes over C.B.O. scores, these debates might look both predictably partisan and boringly technical — and often they are.
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Inside computers, there are, boringly, just voltage levels that control physical objects called screens that, when viewed by human beings, produce the mistaken-yet-amusing belief that one is watching trees, spaceships, explosions, and the like.
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You'll note that Gundacker's song skips over James Corden, who plays the boringly named Percy, and Yara Shahidi, who plays the lackluster Brenda — both human characters and therefore not deserving of a silly Yeti name like Dorgle.
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Updated: With newer, more accurate figures, March 26.2th, 22017am London ON A day when three German states held elections that will allow their incumbent premiers to stay in office, it might seem that German politics is boringly stable.
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"When I toured 'Beginners'" — based on his father, who came out as gay shortly after Mr. Mills's mother died in 1999 — "I came to trust that personal material isn't just boringly selfish and self-involved," Mr. Mills said.
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In fact, so boringly decent are hot-water bottles that, in "Some Like It Hot," Marilyn Monroe's all-girl band got away with using them as cocktail shakers; the gag worked because their chaperone would never suspect it.
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The book, then just published, was evidently meant to help normalize already boringly normal families like ours by using the traditional substitution of animals for people in order to illustrate how much fun having gay dads can be.
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Real Madrid, Juventus and Bayern Munich take a greater share of their leagues' profits—indeed, each Spanish team negotiated its own television deal until 2015—allowing them keep up with England's richest sides and maintain their boringly dominant positions.
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Knowing the exact location of all vehicles in a city would be a huge boon for planners: self-driving cars could all be controlled by one central grid, or more boringly, traffic lights could finally work on an optimal pattern.
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Novus, an analytics firm, has crunched numbers from Hedge Fund Research, a data provider, to suggest that hedge-fund performance shares a trait boringly familiar from other forms of investment: funds that do poorly then do better, and outperformers then underperform.
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While Snap opened the floodgates for IPOs this year, an enterprise company like Yext had to show the kind of predictable growth and performance that might be expected from similar companies like Box (which also had a boringly pleasant earnings report this quarter).
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" Although I have always found Nin hypertrophied and boringly self-involved, my interest in her went up a bit on reading this, despite the fact that I disagree heartily with Moore's dismissal of Marilyn Monroe in the same review as "an exhibitionistic and unfocused talent.
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But at the time, I didn't even question why she would: It obviously lent her a nobility and a heroism far above all the rest of us boringly comfortable and well-provided-for suburban youngsters, an air of the overcomer, who is the aristocrat of our time.
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Having squandered a crucial opportunity to create drama during the first debate, when he boringly promised to accept whatever result the voters returned, he's now stringing the press along — dancing ever closer to an explicit declaration that he'll fight the election result, without saying it outright.
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It replaces (the even more boringly named) HFS+, which has been the Mac's main file system since the late 90s, and was, in turn, based on HFS, a system that goes all the way back to 1985 — the year Marty McFly first went back to the future.
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Word got out of Downing Street that Mr Cameron had called his predecessor-but-one a "shit" and blamed his ally, the chancellor of the exchequer, for making a mess of what had been supposed to be a boringly safe budget ahead of the EU referendum in June.
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" (He has, after all, received a stack of letters detailing Chris's love for him by this point.) When the pair finally meet again in person, alone, and discuss whether they should have sex, Dick is boringly coy, saying that he is a "gentleman" and doesn't want to be "inhospitable.
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In a wide-ranging conversation at a San Francisco event on Wednesday, we talked with Banister about that path, along with her investing style, which still sees her make angel investments of $1.5 million or less in companies that are often ambitiously futuristic or boringly practical and very much needed.
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In the meantime, Natacha Ramsay-Levi has fully found her voice at Chloé, one situated somewhere in the nexus of Georgia O'Keeffe's desert, Britain's World War II land girls, and Rita Ackermann's lush line drawings of women; one that no longer errs either on the side of too boringly office-centric or too boho-beach-bingo, but walks its own, very fine, line.
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In the U.S., there were many decades when the low bun was associated with a decidedly practical, puritanical, even schoolmarmish look: Think of Olivia de Havilland as the boringly sensible Melanie Hamilton in "Gone With the Wind" or sweet, frumpy Auntie Em in "The Wizard of Oz," her weary face framed by wiry gray hair, pulled back and firmly coiled.
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This has not been unintentional — while understated at times and sometimes almost boringly reliable, Merkel has made shrewd political calculations over the years, from her momentous 180 degree turn on nuclear power to fully support the Energiewende, Germany's transition from traditional energy to clean fuel sources, to her deft toeing of the line between condemnation at home and stoic professionalism during visits to the United States when it comes to President Trump.
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The careers of Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt were hitherto characterised by being boringly cautious and greyly on-message.
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Amy hits it off with her date, and she is about to leave with him—and Fry's unwilling head. Luckily for Fry, Leela spots him across the room and comes over to save him. Leela tricks Amy's boyfriend into talking about his job in bank regulation, and he soon winds up talking very boringly, distracting him from leaving with Amy. Fry quietly thanks Leela for the assistance.
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He also directed the short film --Er, chronicling his attempt to produce a film starring his family for a festival competition, which won the ZeD People's Choice Award at the 2003 ReelFast 48 Hour Film Festival.ReelFast 48hr Film Festival Beiser and White also have their own production company, called Duck, a Whale. More recently Beiser has become the face of LifeWise Health Plan of Oregon's "boringly good" campaign.
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Eliza Thompson of Cosmopolitan noted that like the song itself, the clip was "absolutely gorgeous". Nash Jenkins of Time magazine felt that it was not "much more" than what was seen in the snippet but, called it "refreshing for its maturity and minimalism". James Rettig from the website Stereogum was more negative towards the clip saying that it looks like a "boringly pretty screensaver" because of the many slow fading shots.
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She tells him that she and others plan to take over one of the university's buildings. Simon later experiences love at first sight with a female student and uses his photographer position in the college's journal to photograph her. Following her into the university building the students are taking over, he joins the takeover just by being there. She approaches him while he boringly fools around in the toilets.
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Rutland sublets half of his cramped space to American Olympic competitor Steve Davis. While Easton is less than thrilled with the arrangement, she has to put up with it, as she has already spent Rutland's share of the rent. Rutland sets about playing matchmaker for the two young people, in spite of their disparate personalities and Easton’s engagement to a boringly dependable British diplomat, Julius P. Haversack. Davis repeatedly refuses to reveal what sport he is competing in.
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Although he is as poor as a dog, he desires only to eat his bread in without distraction or interference. Equally important is his teasing his constantly angry enemy, whose name is Hadzivat and who is a little bit slow, but not necessarily stupid. Hadzivat speaks conceitedly using archaic words, pretending to be wise and in actuality being a boringly pedant, rigid, corruptible, opportunist who constantly emphasizes his aristocratic origin. Karagoz Theatre is Turkish folk humor at its best.
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' But for most of the movie, Sheen, lowering his voice to a basso he-man growl, gives a boringly flat, square-jawed performance, as if he thought he were doing Hot Shots! Part Quatre." Roger Ebert suggested that "Sheen's behavior in this and other scenes is so close to the self-parody of his work in the 'Hot Shots!' movies that he almost seems to be telling us something — such as, that he takes the movie with less than perfect seriousness.
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Reviewing the first episode, Carole Horst of Variety magazine said the show is a "wildly unfunny sitcom" that "looks more like a TV Land reject than an MTV-sanctioned production". She goes on to say that "while exhibiting nice brotherly chemistry and comic timing", the Sklar brothers "have transferred characters and bits from their New York stage shows to a boringly traditional sitcom setup". On the other hand, The Hollywood Reporter suggested that the Sklar brothers "could be the Seinfelds of the late '90s".
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Although she argues passionately, Samson's emotional strength inevitably inspires her to accept her fate as a Jew. When Samson is bruised and exhausted, lying on the ground, he is encouraged by a close friend who says, "one man can suffer such blows and rise again." For Wajda, this is the greatness displayed in Jewish history. Samson is a scrawny, haggard young man, who says very little and might almost border on boringly average; but he has the ability to rise again despite any blow, proving his strength of spirit.
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Pinto's character received criticism for being too one-dimensional: Anthony Quinn of The Independent called it a "failure", and Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter described the character as the most "boringly decorous tag-along girlfriend seen onscreen in years." Pinto's second screen appearance of the year was playing the title character in Michael Winterbottom's Trishna. The film, based on Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles, gave Pinto the role of a teenage Rajasthani peasant, who leaves her family to work for a British-born Indian hotelier, played by Riz Ahmed.
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A frustrated building contractor (the "Little Man") battles with the Pink Panther over the design of a house being built. The original design has blue overtones and a more traditional "milk carton" shape; conversely, the panther's is futuristically rounded, sleek, and all pink. Several unsuccessful attempts are made at swapping the original house blueprint with the pink version. In conclusion, it appears that Pinky gets the outlandish house he wants, but it is really the boringly-designed house the contractor was going to build, with a fancy-looking pink "facade" (false-front wall) loosely tacked onto the front for disguise.
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The KX's reputation has not improved with age. In 2001, The Guardian referred to the KX100 as "utterly bland" and noting that since its introduction, BT "has done its utmost to turn the phone box from one of the most famous and elegant pieces of street furniture into the most boringly ugly. It might be more vandal proof, more accessible and more modern (in the worst sense of the word) but the KX100, even when feebly capped in a fake Gilbert Scott-style crown, looks plain nasty." On the left, the Mercury booth as introduced in 1988.
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Overall critical response to Slipway Fires was generally negative. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 52, based on 15 reviews. Drowned in Sound described it as "a headachey throb of over-production and excessive sentiment" and "about as indie as Margaret Thatcher", while the NME described them as "just a boringly competent indie band masquerading as, at best, Fleetwood Mac and, at worst, Whitesnake". Q were favourable however, commenting that "Slipway Fires requires more of your time and duly rewards it", as well as making it their album of the month.
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Reviewing the DOS version, a Next Generation critic criticized that the gameplay is boringly simplistic. He concluded, "As full- motion video shooting games go, this is the best of the bunch, but that's not saying much.", and scored it two out of five stars. The magazine's review of the 3DO version focused on how the game was overly similar to previous American Laser Games releases, particularly in that it is impossible to respond in time to certain enemies without the foresight of having been shot by them before, and that the cursor moves too slowly for the game to be playable without a light gun.
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" Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film three out of four stars, saying "Co-directors Chris Renaud and Pierre Coffin, who do Minion voices expertly, never let up on the laughs. A fart joke in 3-D may not be three times as wacky, but the high spirits of Despicable Me 2 are irresistible fun." A. A. Dowd of The A.V. Club gave the film a 'C' grade, saying "What's missing—and this was the crucial component of part one—is a little sour to undercut the sweet. Like its protagonist, a bad guy gone boringly good, Despicable Me 2 has no edge.
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It made $16 million, and reviews were largely negative—although Roger Ebert's appraisal was more mixed: > It is the first time Kasdan has directed from a screenplay he didn't write, > and I assume he was attracted to it for the obvious reason—because it seemed > all but impossible to do. I am not sure if the film is a success because I > am not sure what it is trying to do. It founders in embarrassment, but not > boringly. Kasdan later reflected on I Love you to Death and its poor reception: > For the first time I was directing a film I had not written.
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Lucas M. Thomas of IGN criticized Crystal Monsters for being "unbalanced in monster selection, and boringly repetitive." Marcel van Duyn of Nintendo Life said "Although it might be almost sickening to Pokémon fans to see how similar this is to their beloved franchise, we can't really be too critical of it. It's only 500 DSi Points (300 less than most Gameloft games), and for what it is, it's actually quite a decent, if simple, imitation." Official Nintendo Magazine UK said “A shameless imitation of a game that's infinitely better in every department.” Official Nintendo Magazine UK, October 2010 edition, page 94 Game review aggregation website GameRankings gave it a rating of 54.33% based on 3 reviews.
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Nevertheless, there are disturbing features about the construction of Luke's narrative which make it difficult to sustain this classification. The exotic setting does not quite live up to the expectations of the novel-reader. Syria-Palestine turns out to be neither bandit-infested wilderness nor pastoral countryside, but a network of cities and streets which exhibit much the same humdrum features as the rest of the Mediterranean world. Travel takes place not in the archaic fantasy landscape of Greek romance but in the real, contemporary world of the Roman empire, and it is described in intensely (even boringly) realistic terms; unlike the novelists, this narrator takes the trouble to find out about winds and harbours, cargoes and ports of call.
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While they commented that the new features are initially confusing and that some of the level designs are not as charming or original as those of the first game, they concluded, "Bubsy's personality is still the top draw in Bubsy II, a new kind of adventure that's a definite change of pace for the irascible feline." They were generally complimentary to the Genesis version as well, voicing approval for the multiple paths through each stage, the special items, the new minigames, and the improved controls over the first game. However, they commented that the game is boringly easy for experienced players. GamePro thoroughly panned the Game Boy version, saying that none of the character's charming personality is retained in this version, which also suffers from sloppy controls, dull enemies, slow-paced gameplay, and graphics which are poor even by Game Boy standards.
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It is boringly obvious that these rules are not exactly natural, and yet they solve a natural problem: a child needs both parents, parents need to know the child is theirs, and paternity is subject to uncertainty. And since questions of sexual fidelity cannot be settled in courtrooms, society needs informal norms (with weakened evidential standards and heightened reputational import) policing fidelity in women. Indeed, Hume adds, given female weakness in the face of sexual temptation, society needs women to feel a strong aversion to anything even suggestive of infidelity. This solution might sound unrealistic in the abstract, but nature has made it a reality: those personally concerned with infidelity have swept along the unconcerned in their disapproval, molded the minds of girls, and extended the general rule into apparently irrational territory, with "debauch'd" men shocked at any female transgression and postmenopausal women condemned for perfectly harmless promiscuity.
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