For my newsletter Tedium this week, I wrote about light beer, a topic that has the benefit (like many Tedium topics) of being simultaneously incredibly common and somewhat obscure.
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This tedium is what drives people off the app, certainly.
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She described a life of tedium and despair under ISIS.
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Indeed, he plays with tedium; he teases us with it.
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There's just such a high ratio of tedium to fun.
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What "The Beach Bum" celebrates as transgression is pure tedium.
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And tedium, in Solstad's work, achieves a kind of hallucinatory power.
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This is a tale of captivity, with all its tedium and desperation.
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To take on that level of tedium, that sort of boredom, willingly?
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Republicans are bored — and they hope the American public shares their tedium.
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There is no time for the dialogue to decline into mind-numbing tedium.
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"It was more along the lines of, 'the terrible tedium of it all.'"
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Sachen is a beast unto itself, worthy of its own Tedium issue someday.
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And I thought NBC did a nice job of breaking up the tedium.
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To be promised unknown pleasures but receive so much commonplace tedium is disappointing.
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Even with underscoring, though, tedium can descend on a play that's too diffuse.
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Some shows fall victim to their own pace and devolve into frantic tedium.
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He is hardly alone in trying to spare humans the tedium of car operation.
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Recommendations this week: The Tedium newsletter, Cocaine & Rhinestones, and Casey Newton's The Interface newsletter.
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And then there is another, little-known occupational hazard -- the sheer terror of tedium.
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It's complicated, but today's Tedium sifts through all the polygons and the shaded textures.
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And she didn't even have a Spotify playlist to make the tedium go faster.
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It seems he settled a small village in the land of wheat and tedium.
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Though these tools trim the tedium, turning them to trenchant Toledos takes tireless training.
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Young Fogies, they're caught up in a tedium so premature as to seem imposed.
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The Rangers' nine goals in Games 2 and 3 inspired a recommitment to tedium.
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"The train service in the UK is so unreliable that drinking is almost a prerequisite in order to dull the crushing tedium of another delayed rail journey," Dalton explained to MUNCHIES in an email, and that tedium led to a flash of brilliance.
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But for the most part they remove tedium, not challenge, and smooth out the experience.
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Grim enough to popularize a handful of mobile games simulating office tedium and job insecurity.
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Can blockchain technology fix the soul sucking tedium and cost of back-and-forth bureaucracy?
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A layer of gamification can only go so far to relieve that kind of tedium.
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What musical themes will we see stem from that, the ideas of tedium, the inescapability?
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Inmates like this image, too, because the reality of incarceration is just repetition and tedium.
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But truth be told, most of life is the flat tedium of mowing the lawn.
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What is less obvious are some of the other drawbacks, beyond the stress and tedium.
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Hector Rene appreciates the contrast of high-stakes geopolitics with the essential tedium of war.
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To offset the tedium, Mr. D'Agostino began writing haikus in his boxy green Honda Element.
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They mostly show the long hours of boredom and tedium that dominate life at war.
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KS: Well, you're removing tedium and drudgery but your not replacing it with anything else.
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In the daily lives of the ship's volunteers, trauma mixed with tedium, delight competed with heartbreak.
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And once and for all, Democrats can let the GOP own testing tedium and teacher-trashing.
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But the cries of tedium have come loudest and most insistently from Trump-friendly media figures.
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Whether it actually avoids emulating said tedium depends on how engaging you find its two stooges.
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In THE PERFECT NANNY, Leila Slimani captures the experience of tedium without sounding at all tedious.
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And while Nemes's near-subjective technique can generate genuine tension, it more often yields anxious tedium.
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It's six months of tedium before the two-month orgasm on ice that is the playoffs.
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The keyword system makes this pleasantly straightforward, removing the needless tedium of searching for every conversation option.
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Over time, the fear and tedium subsided, and it became super-easy and a lot of fun.
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But the truer story of my drinking is really a story about tedium, about claustrophobia and repetition.
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Self-trained, Bly was not a master craftswoman: Her writing could flirt both with tedium and turgidity.
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Luckily, the spirited musical performances (featuring an otherworldly theremin) save the production from sliding into sentimental tedium.
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The result is as straightforward an account of the sordid tedium of gang life as exists anywhere.
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Luckily, there is now a rich, ever-growing field of podcasts to distract you from the tedium.
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His cellmates, in contrast, were delighted to have a visitor to break the tedium of jail life.
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Her book becomes, in part, a love letter to the tedium and wizardry that is scientific discovery.
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The one-two punch identifies 86 percent of attacks while sparing analysts the tedium of chasing bogus leads.
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So, to spare his team the tedium, he decided to build a tool that would streamline the process.
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Despite the tedium, burns, bad joins, and dangerous lead fumes, soldering is a prized and hard-fought skill.
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Theoretically, if not yet in practice, trigger warnings may oust great literature in favour of socialist-realist tedium.
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"Yes, that's what tedium is: the loss by the soul of its capacity to delude itself," Pessoa writes.
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Brazil's exit from the Copa América, and Chile's eventual triumph over Argentina in the final, contained organized tedium.
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She hawked skirts for $15 and scarves for $10, joking with passers-by about the tedium of life.
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"It is how we, despite our portions of sorrow, tedium and disaster, persist in finding meaning in ours."
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It is how we, despite our portions of sorrow, tedium and disaster, persist in finding meaning in ours.
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The unsung tedium of tightening controls is less exciting than bold innovations, but equally crucial for managing water.
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Her husband has left her, her tetchy adult son still lives with her and she's tired of tedium.
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You have, instead, worked on perfecting an evening of awkward, having-it-both-ways tedium that satisfies nobody.
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His handlers work him over, and his voters and colleagues bore him with tedium about politics and policy.
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Tesla wants to take the tedium out of the charging experience by turning its stops into convenience stores.
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It is a fight that has very little to do with the day-to-day tedium of CFPB policy.
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It had been a long, dull day, and the tedium of transcription was depressing me, as it sometimes did.
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Mr. Rogen stars as a process server who loves to smoke weed to escape the tedium of his life.
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Still, on the content front, VR offers the prospect of something worse than mild tedium – out and out nausea.
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A FEW years ago, the news about the euro-zone economy was uniformly bad to the point of tedium.
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The new series gives off a vibe similar to the myth of Sisyphus, battling tedium and also cursed immortality.
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Occasional bursts of flames, imperiling many of the effectively nameless characters, come as a relief from the chromatic tedium.
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Puffing that kush is a reliable way to escape the tedium of existence and marvel at said existence instead.
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Fieldwork has been massively streamlined and adjustments made to limit tedium without spoiling the balance of the game entirely.
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Your average journalist, laboring in the trenches of tedium at school board meetings, makes less than $50,000 a year.
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At one point the agony and tedium became too much to bear, and she resolved to end her life.
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Episodic and pleasantly unhurried, the movie follows the ebb and flow of a regular workday while skipping the tedium.
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Across all three, Jamison's journalistic battle between sentiment and detachment rages on, sometimes resulting in texture, sometimes in tedium.
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That is the case here: An experience often defined by dread, indignity and tedium is softened and made beautiful.
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One Democratic lawmaker described the practice sessions as a great deal of tedium punctuated by five minutes of fire.
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To escape this tedium, he said, he began to undertake what he called "voyeuristic excursions" around Aurora after dark.
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About a year ago, I spent a couple of days writing up a privacy policy for my website Tedium.
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Part company with the tedium, shake off the blues, and ride along to add some colour to the monochrome routine.
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Whether or not engaging characters is enough to keep you invested in the game depends on your tolerance for tedium.
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They might be accustomed to tedium, but many aren't used to a major component of campaigning: asking people for money.
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Even better, the incentives will help break up the tedium that can often come with the workweek, says Levine. 4.
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But VR is just the latest in a long line of gimmicks meant to distract from the tedium of exercise.
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He looked forward to these trips, which broke the tedium of life in Zahle, a town in the Beqaa Valley.
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The impetus for Monday's announcement was the tedium of unlimited meetings between the pitcher and catcher, which stifle the action.
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Hedgepeth said she thought her daughter would thank her later for delivering her from the unrelenting tedium of pool training.
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Ordinary life during wartime — a shuffle of tedium and hysteria, bureaucratic entanglement and everyday pleasures — is evoked in fine detail.
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"It's 99 percent tedium," said Ben Weiser, who has covered the Manhattan federal courts for The Times for many years.
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Most workers don't expect their seasonal event to turn into a Bacchanalian orgy; they are just hoping to avoid tedium.
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There are candidates against whom Clinton's appetite for the work of governance, and tedium of change, wouldn't mark her as special.
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The Bachelorette alum joined the season late, escaping the tedium of the early episodes, and the fellow contestants were not happy.
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The sky is overcast, the world is grey, and all things have succumbed to the interminable tedium of World Cup qualifiers.
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The UX is clunky, and I can't imagine kids pushing through the tedium when they just want to play a game.
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Tedium aside, Dick Butt's responses to my pelvic prompts ranged from laggy to non-existent, no matter how hard I squeezed.
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Hopefully, it will help break through the tedium barrier that keeps accurate calorie counting from helping millions of people stay healthy.
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If you choose to venture out on foot instead of by car, the tedium weighs on you like a fat chocobo.
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At the end of the scientist's process of tedium, bureaucracy, and uncertainty, there is often the creation of brand new knowledge.
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Tedium and drudgery is better than starving but it's not better than taking care of elders or children or making art.
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Like many pop musicians, she suffered a childhood of utter tedium, a bright star against the faint backdrop of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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What they offer is an escape from tedium — a reason to take joy in food beyond the baseline requirements of existence.
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Sometimes they work really well, helping prevent a wide variety of crashes and taking some of the tedium out of driving.
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Her prose is fast-thinking, entertaining and punchy, her dialogue fully authentic without sinking into the tedium of real-life conversation.
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Tedium and drudgery is better than starving, but it's not better than taking care of elders or children or making art.
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A version of this article originally appeared on Tedium , a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.
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Or if you want to travel at night, you have about an hour to sleep, between several hours of hassle and tedium.
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Mostly, London Has Fallen relies on gratuitous violence and sadism to break up the tedium, but even the kills get old eventually.
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A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.
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A version of this article originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.
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There was space to breath within it and yet it had none of the tedium associated with the more lethargic walking simulators.
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She's unsparing about the constraints and the tedium of women's lives, for instance, but also about the women who are leading them.
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But in New Dawn they take on an unrepentant tedium because the puzzles and platforms just aren't very inventive, engaging, or robust.
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Battlefield V was bringing to life the depressing pointlessness and bloody tedium of a lot of combat action in the World Wars.
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A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.
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His avoidance of direct questions about his substantive views was graceful to the point of tedium, and not a surprise to anyone.
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His Facebook followers already know this, because he does Facebook Live streams of much of his day, recounting all manner of tedium.
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Rest assured that Elinor Lipman is far too canny to weigh her latest novel down in the tedium of real estate ownership.
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It is a fun event, an intriguing diversion from the tedium of spring training, a nice little kick-start to the season.
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A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium , a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.
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This movie opposes that one with every fiber of its ornery being, including by its insistence on procedural tedium over cinematic excitement.
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A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.
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People who wanted to forego the tedium of person-to-person interaction pre-iPhone used desktops to access various gay dating sites online.
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The test of leadership is not measured in tweets, but in the tedium of making government resources work on behalf of people suffering.
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On his way home he would alleviate the tedium by perusing the antique shops that used to line University Place in Greenwich Village.
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As the party's prospective nominee, he planned to prevent a repeat of that tedium, mainly by injecting "some show-biz" into the proceedings.
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But the stories of others seem to weigh her down, and the tedium she fears begins to find its way into the book.
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Even Andrew Garfield (a good actor!) couldn't save the second 21st-century iteration of the web-slinger's filmic exploits from entering total tedium.
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Nearly everything the ceramist and designer Eny Lee Parker makes is meant to offset what she sees as the tedium of domestic architecture.
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Maybe, but I can't help it: There is something too earthbound and ordinary about it here, an unnecessary tedium to the children's scenes.
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Smarter Living: "Find your passion" is pretty bad career advice, if you assume passion means you won't be dealing with tedium or struggle.
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Like much of his writing about climbing, the article thrust readers into the exaltation, affliction, fear and occasional tedium of a long ascent.
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The film plays like a classic Hollywood courtroom drama, however with the uncomfortable mood, the interstitial tedium, and the long-winded responses included.
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Juro's business is focused on taking the tedium out of negotiating and drawing up contracts by making contract-building more interactive and trackable.
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Their lives are high drama, at least to them, though the show elevates tedium to both a recurring theme and a comic foil.
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What is there to look forward to at the end of any of this, when all that stretches before us is endless tedium?
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What no one wants to admit is that The Discourse provides a shot in the arm that relieves the tedium of the everyday.
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And it is at that moment of clarity and contrition when they are typically plunged into a jailhouse of extortion, violence and tedium.
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The barista class had provided a respite to the tedium of jail time, but nothing would change the fact that they weren't free.
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"This project aims to stir people where they already are, through a welcome distraction from the tedium of office work," the artists said.
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Like most other motorcycle gangs, the Hells Angels were founded by veterans of World War II bored with the tedium of civilian life.
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If you grew up in a very specific stretch of time, you remember the thrill and tedium of giving your crush your BBM pin.
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Japanese people wage over ¥20trn ($180bn) a year on this pinball derivative, fleeing the tedium of office and home life for its noisy thrills.
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Sun and Moon cut out most of the tedium without getting away from the core sense of adventure that's so intrinsic to the series.
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A lackluster service can turn interesting concepts into tedium and spoil what could otherwise be an eye-opening entry point to a new career.
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So, in honor of the tedium of Tax Day, we'd like to give a shout-out to our favorite accountants in TV and film.
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He despises us, despises us for shunning his ways, and so he seeks to bring down the Premier League by means of inescapable tedium.
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There's a lot of moody slow-motion and a heavy dose of Gus van Sant and Harris Savides' joint approach to lighting teen tedium.
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This contradiction (to revert to Marxist vocabulary) is precisely what energizes the film and rescues it from the twin dangers of tedium and sentimentality.
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Smarter Living: "Find your passion" is actually pretty bad career advice, if you assume passion means you won't be dealing with tedium or struggle.
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You've heard most of the complaints: about the trophies for showing up, the Instagramming of tedium, the use of Venmo to buy street drugs.
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At either end of the spectrum, the children themselves face tedium, a lack of freedom and profound uncertainty, especially when their 18th birthday approaches.
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Tyler is restless and craves thrills, and the Narrator is seeking peace from his insomnia and an escape from the tedium of office life.
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Cheaper than a desk treadmill, the Flexispot similarly teases an ideal scenario: focusing on work, while the effort and tedium of traditional exercise fades away.
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It was my instant companion, and I spent hours alone with it, staring into it as it relieved me of the tedium of everyday life.
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It will also eliminate the tedium, for both customers and support workers, of going through multi-step identification procedures with PINs, passwords and security questions.
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No matter how many ways Natali finds to shoot things -- including overhead shots of billowing blades -- a sense of claustrophobic tedium pretty quickly sets in.
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The day's tedium made me particularly prone to embrace the show's premise: offering a thoughtful, funny, and totally unnerving look at modern day office culture.
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Ernie Smith is a contributor to Motherboard, and the editor of the twice-weekly newsletter Tedium , which hunts for the end of the long tail.
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He knows its smell, its subtlest moods, its allure and tedium — how the sight of a child soldier, say, can provoke more annoyance than fear.
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In "White Noise," the tedium of the characters' conversations is only exacerbated by the predictability of the ways in which they connect or fail to.
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It provided bright light to study by and freed families from the tedium of washing clothes by hand and cutting wood for the cook stove.
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We were craving the break, away from our regularly scheduled programming, away from the tedium of our breakfast routines and Rice Krispies welded to sweatshirts.
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Yet all the cast's resourcefulness isn't enough to keep confusion and tedium at bay as this labored allegory unfolds in a painstaking parade of equivalencies.
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" The tedium might enhance the really enthralling parts — like reading a religious text, I thought, then read the line, "Let's call this grey stuff light.
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For Mr. Bonello's cadre of good-looking militants, deeds are more like marketing slogans, expressions of a free-floating aesthetic of tedium and mild stimulation.
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And the girl-power fantasies can often be one-note—Arya's training as a multifaced assassin rivalled the torture of Theon Greyjoy for sheer tedium.
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Phillips, the author of four previous novels, including two for middle-grade readers, beautifully captures the quirks, tedium and magic of parenting a young child.
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I snuggled him even though your email was calling, and some part of me wanted to pull away from the tedium of bedtime and reply.
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" There are perverse reveries about nameless women who are half Virgin Mary, half Belle Dame Sans Merci: "You are the only form that does not radiate tedium, because you change with our feelings, because, in kissing our joy, you cradle our grief and tedium, you are the opium that comforts and the sleep that brings rest, and the death that gently folds our hands on our breast.
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It's a political thriller with an almost infinite tolerance for tedium, a detective story with an obvious culprit, a courtroom procedural caught up in irrelevant details.
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My partner and I would cut the tedium of our directionless existences with meaningless arguments, usually predicated on a slight I had committed in his eyes.
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Within the twentysomething pages of this comic, questions of loyalty, the greater good, and the tedium of a working life are all subtly brought into play.
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The comment raises a central question: Can routine family life, can tedium itself, be made interesting and sympathetic if you pay close enough attention to it?
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. As a Prime Minister, Theresa May specializes in turning high drama into sprawling tedium, it was a poetic climax.
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Had I booked myself a fantasy (lovely scenery, atmospheric whistle stops, cocktails in the dining car) that bore no correlation to reality (aging cars, tourists, tedium)?
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Claustrophobic shots of religious rituals in which the participants scream and convulse yield more in the way of tedium than they do insight into the characters.
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Yet this show, directed by May Adrales at the McGinn/Cazale Theater, contains vast stretches of tedium — the standard beige variety, not the provocative experimental kind.
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She lards her first-person exploration with facts I didn't know: Cuban cigar factories pay people to read stories aloud to their workers, to relieve tedium.
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Humanity may have lapsed into terminal tedium or hubristic stupidity, but that creature, with long, slender limbs and a cranium like a speedskater's helmet, remains interesting.
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Unfortunately that fulfillment arrives only with the final act, after almost two hours of ballet tedium that explains the long gap between performances of this production.
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They've created a new class of employee whose mission is to infiltrate the crowds to help, entertain, instruct or simply distract from the tedium of waiting.
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" — "No kidding" (1973) "The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
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So figuring out how we can liberate people from tedium and drudgery, which of course is what most people have at their job every day, still.
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But there are ways in which the tedium of director Bruno Dumont's latest (based on a 1910 play by Charles Péguy) is key to its appeal.
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The songwriting is at its most tense and compelling, with monolithic tracks stretching nearly to the fifteen-minute mark without a sense of stagnation or tedium.
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It's a movie that's always threatening to do something interesting before turning to the safety of conventions, leaving it stranded in a frozen wasteland of endless tedium.
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Stigmatized by a lack of education and opportunity, these warring personalities are temporarily relieved of the tedium of poverty by acting out its brutalities for Springer's lens.
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This is Marty, and he has a simple plan for escaping the tedium and pain: Retreat into his own mind and put on one last cabaret show.
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The elliptical narrative structure articulates a sad truth of the addict's life concerning both the challenge and the tedium of making it through to the next fix.
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As they yammer through meandering monologues featuring soy milk and the C.I.A., the director, Martin Owen, tarts up the tedium with stylized lighting and quirkily staged flashbacks.
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A shift happens in the last quarter of the game that is as close to a saving grace as you'll find in this wasteland of disappointing tedium.
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In addition to the capturing the tedium of being in a hospital, Toews also includes flashbacks to the sisters' childhood growing up in a rural Mennonite community.
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More than a dozen players sit, shoulder-to-shoulder, for hours in tedium under fluorescent blue lights (and in fear of having to use the one bathroom).
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The engineers had been hired at two or three times my salary, and their privileged position in the industry hierarchy should have exempted them from such tedium.
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After the artistic courage shown by this company in 2016 — when a high proportion of the repertory was choreographically distinguished — this season was depressingly devoted to tedium.
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That tedium, however, is not shared by information security professionals, for whom popular indifference only compounds an already thorny problem — one that grows more challenging each year.
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While speech to text services can help tackle the tedium of transcription, this just invites a slew of new problems: The need to clean up and confirm transcripts.
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The delicate balance between everyday tedium and high-end drama was the thrilling line on which you survived, and there was one person out there soundtracking it all.
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Responding as anyone should to the tedium of having to pervert vegetables into hydrogenated fat-laden tubes of stodge, Nicole shoves whole onions in the machine, jamming it.
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Everyday office tedium was one cause, and an as-yet-unfounded fear of disappointing my editors, which reared its head while I raced to hit deadlines, was another.
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But Matisse's Nice series, despite its abundance of sensual décor, communicates an exultant tedium, unlike Delacroix's harem dwellers who were, in fact, on call, waiting in a perfumed vacuum.
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Infosys thinks artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies developed more recently and packaged in Mana could help solve knowledge management and tedium of system maintenance once and for all.
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Especially for corporate types and people who communicate between regional offices, the tedium of reconnecting to a dropped conference call is nothing to laugh about at the water cooler.
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Where Storr is concerned with the precarity of modern-day work, Knight is preoccupied with the tedium endured by the office-bound class: pointless morning meetings, irritating group projects.
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To watch these same stories recycled, as if they ended with anything but the predictability of the last 30 minutes of Titanic, is still pure tedium for the soul.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — The patois of college basketball gives the game some of its unique flavor in the film room or on the court during the tedium of daily practice.
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If you want to blow things up, build a base, and get mired in the tedium of war, well there's always Metal Gear Solid V—and that has tanks.
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Her updates record the tedium as well as the excitement of active fandom—camping out, waiting in the cold, and dodging bodyguards in the quest for the perfect picture.
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After about 50 minutes, once the movie has exhausted what semi-viable narrative it had, it hammers the nail head of tedium, relentlessly, for the next 30 or so.
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The line sounds like it's about substance abuse, and "Her Smell" is unsparing in its attention to the awful thrill of using and the tedium and terror of sobriety.
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"Ne Me Quitte Pas" (named for a Jacques Brel song heard briefly in the film during a radio broadcast) is soberingly adept at portraying the tedium of drunken life.
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Better Things is, above all, a very funny show about motherhood and the mundane, the snarl of tedium and tenderness that fills the waking hours of a parent's life.
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The many iterations can be fascinating, but they can also be boring, a bit like the long hours dancers spend in rehearsal and the tedium that can accompany invention.
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Participants were also asked to share their experiences at the border on postcards that often convey the tedium, melancholy, and the fear associated with transitioning from one state to another.
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I must love it, surely, because I have spent more time scrolling down it's endless parade of tedium and outrage than I have actively enjoying my life—whatever that was.
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Her employers joke about it, but it's one way to get through the tedium that comes with spending the work day with her back bent over or on her haunches.
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The Oscars may be about pageantry, tedium and -- oh, yeah -- honoring the best cinematic efforts of the year, but this season, there's been an addition to the usual niceties: #OscarsSoWhite.
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Unlike the fits of genius dramatized in the films "Enigma" or "The Imitation Game," code breaking was actually a marathon of tedium, an activity defined by comparing and recognizing patterns.
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"The Boring Book" is anything but: Shinsuke Yoshitake uses a bold design sense and a deceptively simple drawing style to find wit in scenes supposedly showing lethargy, tedium and ennui.
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With irresistible effrontery, "Substitute" dares its readers to ask, "Is all this tedium really necessary?" only to have us turn and ask the same question on behalf of our kids.
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My grandfather had an engineering degree from Drexel Tech, and at first he had found the work interesting, but he was a restless man, prone to confound tedium with rage.
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Then we'll adjust our thermostats and go two-thirds vegan the same way we got used to the chaos and tedium of airport security check-ins: We'll have no choice.
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Many fans have started to grumble about the repetitive tedium, and this week's episode feels like one of the first to want a resolution as badly as the viewers do.
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"The idea was that, by gaining access to the weirder potentialities of consciousness, my basic stance towards existence would be altered: shorn of the tedium and banality," Rob tells us.
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"The idea was that, by gaining access to the weirder potentialities of consciousness, my basic stance towards existence would be altered: shorn of the tedium and banality," Rob tells us.
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Fennelly writes about the tedium of conversations on airplanes, the unshakeability of a Catholic upbringing, the fact that she has an enormous bladder and can go for hours without urinating.
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The tedium of my everyday life vanished; I instead marched through the gates of my alcazar, strode up the steps of my concepts, and resided in my throne of deceit.
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The labor of "opening" your kitchen for "service" is a tedium (not to mention the chore of breaking it down afterward without the help of the guy in a hairnet).
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But what comes across most forcefully in this overstuffed workplace drama is tedium: the ceaseless petty bickering of employees amid a surfeit of exposition about their jobs and company policy.
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Streets are clean and apartments comfortable, but young residents complain about the tedium of living and working alongside a small number of people in an isolated settlement surrounded by wilderness.
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Bonus: Eliminating the kickoff would end the television tedium of a touchdown followed by numerous commercials, then a kickoff that goes into the end zone for a touchback, then more commercials.
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Support the Girls shares some basic DNA with movies like Waiting… and Empire Records, workplace comedies about how camaraderie can offset the tedium and petty humiliations of the minimum wage grind.
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His predicament is not unlike that faced by Diouana (Mbissine Thérèse Diop), the title character of "Black Girl," whose daily routines of drudgery and tedium drive her into depression and worse.
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A lion's existence is a miracle, every day; there is tedium and tense standoffs and blazing heat, and then their food travels hundreds of miles away in search of the rain.
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Each one played the same, with only minor variations, and while the ability to target gear was exciting, familiarity breeds contempt, and too many forge runs would inevitably turn into tedium.
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The tedium is broken (not in a good way) with Perel saying words like Tinder and Grindr, which I suspect she does to sound with-it but have the opposite effect.
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In their minds, it's still the old bar, the old saloon, so they carry along hip flasks and beef jerky to ease themselves through the unholy tedium, belching and snorting noisily.
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As you are a critic, you view and listen to performances through a very different lens than those who want to be soothed and enthralled after a long day of tedium.
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But "The Competition," after showing the process of submitting applications and sitting in assemblies (Simon risks replicating the tedium she's portraying here) is in many ways juicy well beyond one's expectations.
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For each ticket, he quickly ticked off some claims of defects regarding address, type of vehicle, fines and the like — all the while lightening the jargon-laced tedium with jokes and stories.
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Introspective friends Juan (Gael Garcìa Bernal) and Wilson (Leonardo Ortizgris) flee the tedium of suburban life and wind up on the run with two duffle bags stuffed with priceless pre-Colombian loot.
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Lectores have been reading at cigar factories since 1865, when Nicolás Azcárate, a leader of a movement for political reform, proposed the practice as a way to educate workers and relieve tedium.
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The farm and Pelican Town are an escape from the tedium of everyday life, both for the player character in the game's storyline and for me out there in the real world.
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Syd is the first person to realize the mental projection inside of Clockworks Psychiatric Hospital isn't exactly real, since she notices what looks like a "bedroom door" among all the medical tedium.
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It is also strongly advised you acquire some friends or a significant other and watch it with them, as baseball games regularly blur the line between delicious tension and soul-crushing tedium.
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And despite some nifty visual surprises in the set (Arnulfo Maldonado), costumes (Montana Levi Blanco) and lighting (Jen Schriever), the show can't altogether forestall the tedium that comes with running in place.
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Nor is it the palliative care for liberals offered up by Stephen Colbert and the other the late-night talkers, or by "Saturday Night Live," now into its fifth decade of tedium.
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As an escape from the tedium he began writing short stories that he posted on his blog and later tried to animate using his limited skills in Photoshop and After Effects software.
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In another dynamite number that transforms the tedium of real life into heightened reality, a fireplug named Lexi Perkel enlivens a grown-up party where no one is paying attention to her.
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That offends the refined sensibilities of economists, who hasten to remind us at every opportunity, to the point of tedium, that a uniform, economy-wide price on carbon is to be preferred.
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The truck had grown weary of this tedium and had broken down, and since the Alonso brothers preferred painting and drinking to lifting the truck's spirits, it had been left to grow weeds.
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Wang, who grew up in Los Altos and moved back in recent years, wrote Family Trust as an escape from the tedium of stay-at-home parenting while pregnant with her second child.
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While none of these features individually will necessarily wow you, they are making use of Google AI to simplify common tasks to reduce some of the tedium associated with every-day hiring tasks.
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One area where it can spectacularly fail to alleviate nutrition-related tedium right now is in its approach to food logging — with an over-reliance on scanning barcodes to log what you're eating.
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In this case, Mr. Ryan's people, both young and old, long to escape the tedium and unhappiness of their lives on Merritt Island and, at the same time, they feel powerless and trapped.
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The tedium that sets in is a function of the blockbuster ethos in which everything must smash and ignite so that a solitary man can emerge phoenix-like to fight another franchise fight.
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So therefore we wanted to come up with a way that would take some of the tedium out, but still give the player the chance to make choices, and make decisions on their own.
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Many great artists have turned bureaucratic tedium into their main medium, from Richard Prince's legal explorations of photography and the boundaries of intellectual property, to Debtfair's attempted inversion of the economics of student debt.
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To combat the tedium of spending days stuck at home, citizens of Wuhan and cities nearby are getting creative, with videos posted to social media showing people fishing indoors, dancing, and playing indoor games.
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Rita Popper, 77, has lived with the tedium of subway construction outside her home at Knickerbocker Plaza on the Upper East Side for years, dealing with inconveniences like delayed garbage pickup and snow removal.
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Despite its frequent depictions of violence and extreme behavior, "Saul" is still TV's most obsessive chronicler of mundanity and tedium, a show in which cleaning up takeout containers is a significant declaration of love.
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The country may well be saved from some of Trump's most draconian impulses by some of Trump's most pronounced flaws: his lack of seriousness, his aversion to tedium and his gnat-like attention span.
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Conversely, some of the detail can swerve into tedium; the reader is informed not only that Carter paid $300 a month in rent when living in Providence, Rhode Island, but that the figure included utilities.
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Yes, a war zone is fraught with the possibility of death, but the relative banality and tedium of being stateside carries its own unnerving terrors—the sheer absence of danger can be just as rattling.
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I'm With the Band presented an opportunity to avoid what we expect from reality shows, and to move the nitty-gritty of making music, in all its tedium and moments of glory, to center stage.
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But the work, which opened on Saturday, feels intact, and it shows the surreal glory of the choreographer's vision while occasionally lapsing into time-slowing tedium that is, paradoxically, also a part of that vision.
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The thing I remember most about those trips from Oneonta to Cooperstown to Horseheads — besides the tedium — was the intense reaction she got from middle-aged women, who yelled and waved and begged for autographs.
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Perhaps Trump would become fed up with all the tedium and hassle and ridicule that comes with the office and simply decide to quit, retiring to Mar-a-Lago to golf away his remaining days.
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This tongue-in-cheek approach (including a delicious little ditty played over the end credits) doesn't lessen the impact of his heroine's journey, but it does significantly ease the tedium of the virtually nonstop slaughter.
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It appears to be designed to cater to the traveler who wants frictionless, engineered fun; the illusion of elsewhere without the alienation; the illusion of culture without the tedium — for instance, on now, through Feb.
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Union Square Ventures leads legal tech startup Juro's $5M Series A Juro's business is focused on taking the tedium out of negotiating and drawing up contracts by making contract-building more interactive and trackable. 4.
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There is icy cold instead of sandy heat, but still the level of tedium is very high, for two main reasons: the character of Jon Snow (Kit Harington) and the excessive number of C.G.I. zombies.
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" Rachel Syme reviews the tv series Better Things in "Mom, Interrupted," and how the show is about "motherhood and the mundane, the snarl of tedium and tenderness that fills the waking hours of a parent's life.
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This floppy British romance, directed by Thea Sharrock and adapted by Jojo Moyes from her best-selling novel, sits at the point where tedium, ridiculousness and heartfelt sentiment converge, separated by an all-but-imperceptible distance.
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Kiril waited for him to appear, the way in high school he had waited for far-fetched things to break up the tedium: sudden snowstorms, a citywide blackout, subtle variations on the end of the world.
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He cried as he created, but the physical grind of the work itself became a source of solace: the birthing of a sculpture, the mixing of cement, the tedium of mosaicing, the endless sorting of objects.
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It took Flanagan from the time she turned professional, in 2004, until this year to win a major international race; years of tedium and drudgery, and robotic routine (churning her legs through 130 miles a week).
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Tedium can be a productive means of cinematic deviance, but after a soft-lit, slow-motion pillow fight goes on for three full minutes, do we really need a similarly filtered orgy in a later scene?
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The production's occasional tedium notwithstanding, Ms. Schwend has something to say about an American citizenry under severe economic stress, and her four-person cast of Britons take to the play's Texas environs with readily apparent empathy.
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They remind us that we are somehow both infinitesimal and infinite, that despite the confines and tedium of our daily lives, we live in an amazing reality, one that we lack the language to truly articulate.
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And you could argue that the daily get-up-in-the-morning-and-face-another day tedium of parenthood can similarly be good for adults, though I'm not sure it necessarily pushes us in creative directions.
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With Japan's rapidly aging population, car manufacturers such as Nissan hope not only to banish the tedium from tasks such as queuing, but also benefit elderly citizens, whether at home or out and about in the city.
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The color-sapped tedium of office life runs like a flickering current through the warrens of white-collar fiction — from Bartleby impassively facing his brick wall to Frank Wheeler caged in his dark cubicle in ''Revolutionary Road.
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After running through ideas from General Motors and Commucar co-designer Dwight Baumann, Cronkite gets behind the wheel of a prototype StaRRcar on the streets of Westborough, delivering a monologue about the tedium and inefficiency of driving.
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Dotted throughout their journey are the elements that will cohere in "Waiting for Godot": the blasted landscape, the tedium of life as a near vagrant, the mundane conversations about boots and carrots between a footsore, starving couple.
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The office cleanup may have seemed a sign of renewal, but it was motivated by tedium, Ms. Bley said, reclining on a couch while her partner of more than 25 years, the bassist Steve Swallow, brewed coffee.
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The race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, after its traumatic defeat in December's general election, has largely been conducted in the spirit of bury-the-hatchet pragmatism, to the point of tedium.
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Its manner of punctuating tedium with shock at times feels strained — an attempt to exploit dwindling resources of cinematic provocation — but "Staying Vertical" still has a rough gravity that holds your attention and sticks in your mind.
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All the same, he left the race with 137 laps left to go—presumably because of the crash, but also quite possibly to avoid the tedium of having to do 137 more laps on the same track.
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The next day my wife wondered about the fact that African-American slavery lacked the same, singular being, a young person who could have communicated the horrors — and also the tedium, the joys — of that lived experience.
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So, because a story about a hidden art collection is more exciting than a story about the bureaucratic tedium of denied FOIA requests, media coverage of "Acres of Walls" focused on the apparent obfuscation of the Melzac Collection.
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But it's possible that the most exhausting thing to surface in the frothing tide of tedium that is social media has made its way to Twitter in an obvious challenge to all of us to log off forever.
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These include tattoos of clocks without hands, prison walls and spider webs, all reflecting the tedium of incarceration, and a popular tattoo depicting the thespian masks of comedy and tragedy along with the slogan "Laugh now, cry later".
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A new report on this automation of jobs by Walmart says it's led to a greater sense of tedium and unease among some human employees, even as the company insists that its robots are meant to benefit them.
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Eight years earlier, when I was 20, I had served in Afghanistan as a machine-gunner in a security platoon that accompanied convoys, a six-month tour of grinding tedium interspersed with episodes of unpredictable violence and death.
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Now, when she sends her children short messages on her iPhone, she loves being liberated from the tedium of having to peck out every single letter, or having to consult her Chinese-English dictionary to spell a word.
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At just 19 years old, Emma Rauschenbach, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, tied her fate to this penniless, clever man, correctly intuiting that he would offer her something beyond the monochromatic tedium of an haut-bourgeois life.
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We watch them perform repetitive work at sewing machines for lengthy scenes, enough to try to project the tedium of a 12- or 14-hour workday and give the viewer a bare sense of what their lives are like.
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Ephemera atop an office desk — a Record Book; an extensive file of business cards; and, especially, a video of Nowacek's dragging face while on a conference call (Typical conference call, 2014) — capture the tedium of behind-the-scenes organizational labor.
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Early in the movie, an adaptation of Dan Wells's young-adult novel of the same name, the director Billy O'Brien nicely balances the tedium of small-town life — the film was shot in northern Minnesota — with an unnervingly creepy vibe.
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Douthat: Yes, and on the Republican side, precisely because of their likely tedium and semi-assured outcome, the hearings probably won't be as politically useful (in a base-galvanizing way) to Trump as a more contentious nomination might have been.
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But when you state that you want to be "soothed and enthralled" after a long day of tedium, I have to say that Beethoven would be perturbed by the idea that anyone would find his Seventh Symphony soothing, or even enthralling.
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The scale-up issues would still need solving, but the painstaking, often artisanal process of growing viruses in tissue culture or in eggs—the tedium of isolation and decontamination, gowns, masks, face shields, doubled-up gloves—would be vastly diminished.
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A big fight booking follows the same basic blueprint on its way to fruition: it simmers, it intrigues, it becomes familiar and eventually dull, it manifests into beauty or tedium and a win and a loss, and it becomes part of history's dustbin.
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This was the longest time he had spent without masturbating since he was a teenager, and during this hospital tedium he often thought that you should be able to ask a nurse to lock you in a conjugal cupboard for 10 minutes.
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Taken together, as I saw them on Saturday in a nearly five-hour marathon matinee, they make a smart and thought-provoking show that repeatedly upends expectations, distilling the essence of O'Neill's "Iceman" into new forms that mostly do away with the tedium.
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Despite the thoughtful moments of office tedium that originally led Phillips to make these works, she doesn't have as much time for daydreaming anymore because she's busy making new work for upcoming exhibitions from the plethora of reused printed materials she's collected.
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" Bunting makes a pilgrimage to where he "set up his typewriter in front of the window overlooking the sea, and with that vista in front of him, he infused the novel with a pervasive horror of the dirty, urban tedium of its setting.
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For a while, after that, airplanes became something of a Wembley tradition: not by any means universally popular, but a way to pass time, to alleviate boredom — a silent protest against the tedium of watching England at the professed home of football.
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Only six months ago Barcelona-based TravelPerk bagged a $21 million Series B, off the back of strong momentum for a software as a service platform designed to take a Slack-like chunk out of the administrative tedium of arranging and expensing work trips.
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The hot night, the string of failures that this batch of magnetic paint would soon extend, the meat grinder into which humanity was feeding itself, and that constant fly-buzz of tedium inside his head, all conspired to make my grandfather vulnerable to adventure.
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Unimpressed by the national security establishment and uninterested in the tedium of traditional policymaking, Mr. Trump often demonstrates more faith in what some overseas strongman tells him than the soft-boiled guidance of the bureaucrats, diplomats, intelligence analysts and military officers in the Situation Room.
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It got off to a slow start, adding in quotidian, seemingly insignificant details — Hillary's stint sliming fish in Alaska, the square footage of the couple's first house, watching Police Academy movies with Chelsea — that combined for an effect not of tedium but of familiarity, of humanization.
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"Both are deliberately transgressive, breaking through the tedium of politics-as-usual by using vulgar language, insulting and shouting down opponents, adopting simple catchy slogans and making off-color jokes and misogynistic remarks," wrote Alexander Stille, a journalist and author of books on Italy, in The Intercept.
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In fact, the week before GDC marked the release of Night in the Woods, a game that tells the story of aimlessness, an unwanted homecoming and the tedium of a small American town populated by people who aspire to nothing greater than what they already have.
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We go to see plays every day, hundreds of thousands of us go every day, to lay aside for a few hours the burden and the tedium and the horrors of every day existence, to rest for a time secure in the shelter of our dreams.
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It's Tracey's birthday, and she wants to shake off the tedium of the day with her pals from the steel-tubing factory where she works—the hard-drinking Jessie (Miriam Shor) and the high-voiced, trying-to-keep-pain-at-bay Cynthia (Michelle Wilson), who is black.
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I never played Super Mario Maker for the Wii U or 3DS because I didn't think I would be into the tedium of laying down platforms, item boxes, and enemies, and I felt like I absorbed enough of the custom levels by watching other people play them online.
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In Scott's eye, rather than cure the oppressive ills of earthbound capitalism, space travel would merely compound them: Our heroes, blue-collar workers for a giant mining corporation, spend the opening act grumbling about their bonuses, the tedium of their jobs, and the tightfistedness of the suits back home.
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Others have reached such a peak of popularity that it seems evident that Firaxis should have thought to include them in the base game, such as the Evac All mod that automatically sets all soldiers in an evac zones to evacuate without the tedium of clicking on them individually.
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The tedium, I would argue, is not incidental but essential, because this is not really a spy thriller or even a foot-chase and fist-fight-driven action movie, but rather a somber meditation on the crisis of the Gen-X professional in the throes of middle age.
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Has anyone ever excavated the core intersection of supermarket game-show passion and tedium like her Padget, as she loaded her cart with sides of beef and ate out of a mayo jar with her hands "to keep her energy up" in the "Supermarket Sweep" parody on "S.N.L."?
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A prompt like that is standard practice for any live televised audience — celebrities aside, our role was to remind the people watching at home that this was supposed to be fun — but it felt particularly emblematic of this year's awards season, which has been rife with controversy and ineptitude and tedium.
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More than that, though, this scene challenges us to imagine the ultimate competitor in the history of sports, reduced to a life of tedium and inevitable failure; that man, a brilliant athlete and entrepreneur willfully staring down slavery and all that implies, just to raise the stakes in a basketball game.
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But researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have taken a different tack to try to take some of the tedium out of web browsing — and the result is a tool, called Polaris, which they say can reduce page load times by as much as 34 per cent.
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The tedium certainly didn't help with my itching desire to get up and stretch my legs and although I'm not sure if the VR experience exactly replicates Delft's Hyperloop design, I do hope they at least add an aisle to their pod so passengers can walk up and down a little.
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For instance, the more I've learned about goldfish — they are more intelligent than we think, feel pain and engage in socially complex behaviors — the guiltier I feel that I subjected several of these creatures to a life of endless tedium, swimming circles in a small bowl on my daughter's dresser.
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No wonder it's in comment sections and on Twitter where this flaccid, gassy, swearing-not-swearing tends to take place: this is where the people who have had every last vestige of control over their own lives go to whinge in half-hearted tedium about the world that's killing us all.
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Supporters are crying out for a remedy to the tedium of Hodgson's tenure and, accordingly, they have been presented with a choice between two stodgy former centre-backs, one of whom currently manages Hull City and the other of whom was cast off by West Ham for being too unimaginative.
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In a Tedium article from this past March, Ernie Smith wrote about IBM's big bet on a microkernel for operating systems—effectively a minimal layer of software through which an operating system's basic tasks are handled—a bet that included a variant of its well-known-if-less-remembered OS/22019.
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This chart from Real Clear Politics reinforces the tedium: The next time a new national 230 poll comes out, you can probably fill in the blanks yourself: Biden at 22020 percent, give or take, Sanders trailing 22020-22020 points behind him, Harris and now Buttigieg both hanging around at 22015 percent.
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But suddenly at stake in the tedium is whether the money that richer states transfer to poorer ones — long seen as a means of democratizing former dictatorships, like Portugal, Spain or Greece — is instead enabling new ones, namely in Poland and Hungary, among the top money-getters in the European Union.
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This update takes out a lot of the tedium involved with using Dropbox as extra cloud storage, and in the age of still-expensive solid state drives, finding extra storage space online is a great way to steer away from spending hundreds of dollars on a solid state that holds 500GB or more.
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The tedium of my version would be surpassed only by its offensiveness.) "Love, Nina" was published in the United States in 2014, and Stibbe followed it a year later with a novel called "Man at the Helm," which read like the fictional equivalent of a ramshackle cottage (meandering blueprint, plenty of charm).
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He's also hip to the irony of painting these modest figures on a canvas he hopes to sell, because even if the whole thing is just an exceedingly dry send-up of conceptual tedium, the joke remains on him, as a person who's committed his life to painting, as much as on anyone else.
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His tongue-in-cheek versions for Orbital Reflector are cartoonish, with mottos that mostly seem like inside jokes about the tedium of the process of building your own satellite: "Orbital Reflector Logistics / In Space No One Can Hear You Complain"; "Reno, We Have a Problem / #NotMyProblem"; "Ad Astra Per Cartam" ("To the stars through paperwork").
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This post ran originally on THUMP UK. If you thought cassette releases were just for spotty oiks from Michigan who make parent-baiting noise records because it breaks up the tedium of eating sloppy joes and jerking off, Swiss disco-agitators In Flagranti have got news for you—Swiss chuggers can do it too!
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Pick n Pay Online Manager Georgina Muirhead said after a successful pilot with a group of shoppers last year, the service, called Grocery Genius, is now available to all Pick n Pay online shoppers with limited time or those who want to avoid the tedium of repeat purchases at every shopping trip or online.
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I don't remember the moment I learned to read — though it must have happened before first grade, because I can still summon the tedium of sitting in a circle on a braided rug, reading aloud from deadly "Dick and Jane"-style primers whose only hint of conflict lay in the extratextual struggle between reader and alphabet.
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Blackstorm Labs is trying to make the process of getting into that game seamless by booting it instantly from a messenger, but now it's also trying to take away some of that tedium to handle more of the administrative elements of a game — like knowing when to log back in — with an AI gamebot that lives right in Messenger.
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The interviews O'Rourke has offered this week aren't must-see TV and they'll never rate like The Apprentice, but behind the tedium of talking to a woman while apparently picking his kid up from sports practice, O'Rourke did accomplish the task of making life in a border city look about as humdrum and crisis free as possible.
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Over the years the strip has come to focus on the experiences of two main characters, Abe and Garcia, who in many ways are foul-mouthed millennial updates on Willie and Joe, Bill Mauldin's comic-strip characters of World War II. Garcia is likable and reasonable, a Marine who accepts the corps' absurdities, indignities and tedium in stride.
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How voters decide what to make of this contrast — a candidate who seems bored by parliamentary tedium and loves the roar of his own crowds, and a candidate who thrives in the back rooms of Washington and in one-on-one settings with voters but struggles to excite the masses — could determine who wins the Democratic nomination.
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While Game of Thrones has trained us to be paranoid every time one of our beloved characters comes across a group of enemies, the scene is surprisingly humorous, with the soldiers complaining about the tedium of war and how frustrating it is to be separated from their families for months at a time, fighting for people who don't care about them.
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This all seems like table stacks for an online game like World of Warcraft that has in-game managers for all these things, but the goal of all this is to have all this functionality baked inside a bot that can handle complex tasks to keep the tedium away from a player and get their attention when something fun is available.
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Instead, everyone is, as it were, crowded into one room; the narrative then proceeds with the gentle tedium of an almanac or a local newspaper report, mixing news of "events" in the natural world with their equivalents in the human realm: In the beech wood the foxes gave birth, earthed down in the dark and wet with pain, the blind cubs pressing against their mothers for warmth.
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Grant did poorly at West Point; decently as a young officer in the Mexican War; not so well as an officer when the conflict was over (tedium took its toll, and he was forced to resign from the Army for being drunk on duty); and then terribly as a would-be businessman in St. Louis, forced at last to sell firewood on the street.
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" The narrator recalls her mother, a vain and distracted bedroom drunk: "I remembered watching her 'put her face on,' as she called it, and wondering if one day I'd be like her, a beautiful fish in a man-made pool, circling and circling, surviving the tedium only because my memory can contain what is imprinted on the last few minutes of my life, constantly forgetting my thoughts.
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A portion of the VR scene runs the risk of heading the same way—there are, for my money, too many games on the boil that rely on the novelty value of "true" 3D depth to paper over the tedium of yet another shooter or action experience, and the fact that so many VR games can also be played on a screen suggests that developers are preparing for the worst.
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Somehow — and this may be the movie's most impressive feat — "Obit" shapes the tension and tedium of the writing process itself into engaging narrative drama as it lets us watch the veteran writer Bruce Weber assemble a 2014 obituary of William P. Wilson, a media consultant who provided vital cosmetic and staging tips to the 1960 Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy before his first televised debate with Richard M. Nixon.
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Surely one of the most magnificent feats of the human brain is its ability to hold past, present, future and their imagined alternatives in constant parallel, to offset the tedium of washing dishes with the chance to be simultaneously mentally in Bangkok, or in Don Draper's bed, or finally telling your elderly relative that despite her belief that "no one born in the 1970s died," using a car seat isn't spoiling your child.
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Sprawling, repetitive, occasionally splendid, and just as often exasperating, "4 3 2 1" is never quite dull, but it comes too close to tedium too often; there is no good reason for this novel to be eight hundred and sixty-six pages long, or for every Archie's love of baseball and movies and French poetry to be rhapsodized over, or for every major headline of the nineteen-fifties and sixties to come under review.
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Surely one of the most magnificent things about the human brain is its ability to hold past, present, future, and their imagined alternatives in constant parallel, to offset the tedium of washing dishes in Pinole with the chance to be simultaneously mentally in Bangkok or Don Draper's boxer shorts or finally telling your mother-in-law that despite her belief that "no one born in the '70s died," using a car seat isn't spoiling your child.
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He sure came out swinging, but as the questioning dragged on, it became clear that the guy's still a former FBI agent with a default expression best described as "resting stoic face," who plays things as close to the chest as possible Between that, the inevitable tedium of Senate protocol, and the fact that the only Trump who ended up live-tweeting was Donald Junior, some of the viewers who had tuned in to watch Comey spill scalding secrets were more frustrated than captivated.
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Something to do with the marriage of high seriousness and low comedy is at the core of his work; something to do with the wars against false piety, against the fantasy of purity and other forms of sanctimony; something to do with how the novel is playful and capacious enough to contain the life of the mind and the body and the spirit; something to do with human indignation and with human dignity; something to do with an epic disregard for the rigid tedium of conventions and the dishonesties of human life, relationships and consciousness.
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