But that doesn't mean 2017 will be totally thankless, either.
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The life of a substitute is thankless and sometimes traumatizing.
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It's a thankless task to run a warehouse for waste.
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Rescuing animals seems like a rather thankless job at times.
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Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task.
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A difficult, frustrating, often thankless job ... that you can quit.
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Still, it was thankless, monotonous work, and I was floundering.
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He marveled at how grueling and thankless the work is.
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Caitriona Balfe does a great job with a thankless task.
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So who might take this important — and thankless — Facebook job?
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Being an intern in this place is truly a thankless job.
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Being her junior partner is a thankless and often ruinous business.
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"Basically, it's a thankless job," says somebody close to Mr Philippe.
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UFC matchmaker seems like it could be a truly thankless job.
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Theirs is a thankless task: They must know they are lying.
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The Wall Street Journal editorial board: Thankless duty at Homeland Security.
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Predicting the onset of a recession is often a thankless task.
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On one hand, moderating the site is a thankless volunteer job.
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Running for office is a grueling, often thankless and noble pursuit.
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Listen, predicting the future is thankless and hard and often ill-advised.
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Upsetting the entrenched power structure of cities is an exasperating, thankless task.
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One has to feel for Roth, who has an entirely thankless task.
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DIVINING meaning in the Trump administration's trade announcements is a thankless task.
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Of course, caregiving is difficult and thankless work that deserves financial reimbursement.
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He told the officers he knows their jobs can sometimes seem thankless.
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These programs do the hard, often thankless work of making America great.
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Pop stardom is confusing, messy, thankless work, equal parts exultation and excoriation.
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It's encouraging and frustrating, it's adorable and disgusting, it's rewarding and thankless.
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It is an arduous and thankless exercise, not unlike faith in God.
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Making pizza at home may seem like a daunting and thankless task.
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Do you ever feel like composing a score is a thankless job?
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Snopes has done the thankless work of online fact-checking since 1995.
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What if no one volunteers to take this dangerous and thankless job?
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It seems a tough and thankless job, but the competition is robust.
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At best, human resources officials may be caught in a thankless bind.
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If you think parenting is a thankless task, believe me, I get it.
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The president wants to avoid thankless state-building and focus on fighting terrorists.
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He's surrounded by co-workers and conspirators and the usual thankless cable wife.
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Starting and running a business can be a lonely, thankless, and exhausting process.
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It was thankless work, and almost impossible to do in a satisfying manner.
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Caroline Faber has the thankless role (and excruciating dialogue) of Schumacher's betrayed wife.
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This work is often thankless, but it does not seem to be joyless.
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"Housework is a thankless, unending job," she told The Ottawa Citizen in 22002.
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Journalists, like just about every type of professional, have some thankless, easily repeatable responsibilities.
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There hasn't been another 9/11 thanks in part to their often thankless work.
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Those who gave up their personal time for extra shifts in a thankless environment.
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How thankless is it to be practically edited out of your own rape scene?
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Biggs was given a thankless role and performed about as well as anyone could.
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The unenviable task falls to Ana de Armas in the thankless role of Joi.
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The fine, handsome bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch gives his all to this thankless role.
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It's no wonder that being an immigration judge can be a stressful, thankless job.
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But if individual voters don't feel that in their paycheck, it's a thankless gift.
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Being the link among the dancers, the choreographer and the designers can be thankless.
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Plus, parenthood seemed like one more thankless task whose burden fell disproportionately on women.
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Kushner may not have much choice but to work on some thankless problems, either.
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Secret Service agents have one of the most restful and oftentimes thankless jobs out there.
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New York publishing has a lot of women doing a lot of tired, thankless work.
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That's serious yeoman's work, performing the thankless task always in service of the larger story.
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Even in a normal administration the job of chief of staff is thankless and relentless.
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In 2013, researchers at Michigan State University carried out a thankless, if mildly creepy, study.
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Abrams is filling a role that for others has proven thankless and generated brutal reviews.
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But skill sets don't matter in what might be the most thankless job in Washington.
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COs have one of the hardest jobs in city government — often thankless and always dangerous.
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President Donald Trump has an important -- but thankless -- job to fill: US ambassador to Russia.
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The opposition's response to the State of the Union speech is a thankless job, but Rep.
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Hamas gave up the bureaucracy, handing Fatah the thankless task of providing public services in Gaza.
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Other times, it means killing the Mad King, even though you know it's a thankless task.
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Cavill has the thankless job of being the live-action embodiment of a video game character.
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It's not about the pay or about being praised — it can sometimes be a thankless job.
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But on October 4th, Mr Tillerson declared that he would soldier on in his thankless job.
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Teaching science, evolution in particular, can be a thankless job in this part of the country.
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JOHN CRYAN has spent almost three years on the thankless task of revitalising Germany's biggest bank.
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And no one wants to be an organization's treasurer, which is the most tedious, thankless job.
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This is thankless work, and after more than a decade of it she is clearly tired.
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This is a noble, arduous, and thankless job, which might be why he doesn't do it.
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Gaethje's forward pressure, high guard, and projected forehead mean that punching him is a thankless task.
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"Journalism is a tough and often thankless job, even on the best days," Mr. Broadwater said.
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It is a thankless and seemingly never-ending task that unfolds amid an often ambivalent public.
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Bus drivers were among the countless workers here doing thankless jobs to keep the Olympics running.
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He is departing what is often a thankless job, but John Kelly has my eternal gratitude.
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But what could be more thankless, at this point, than that live New Year's Eve gig?
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Nikki Haley delivered the Republican response to the State of the Union tonight, a generally thankless task.
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Susan Blakely literally phones it in from her fictional deathbed, but is fine in a thankless role.
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Awards hosting is a notoriously thankless (and risky) job that last year's ceremony seemingly proved wasn't necessary.
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Hugh Armitage, DigitalSpy: Poor, talented Michelle Williams is given the thankless task of the film's resident girlfriend.
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Poor Lue was frequently given the thankless task of guarding Iverson — and that's where we begin. Unforgettable.
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Today we look into unpaid content moderation, a thankless job that keeps online communities like Reddit safe.
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Whether it's a failed project, a thankless job, or a doomed relationship, quitting can be a virtue.
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Many were likely unwilling to take a job that has long been recognized as challenging and thankless.
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All of which suggests that being press secretary to this particular president is an utterly thankless task.
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I know throwing parties can be a thankless grind—are you excited and optimistic about the future?
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Being an Android device manufacturer has to be one of the most thankless jobs in the world.
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But all that slow, thankless work has been eclipsed by the more prominent voices of mainstream feminism.
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Meanwhile, Justin Cunningham, a talented performer, has the egregiously thankless task of portraying Benny, Bertha and Julynne.
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Poor Cruz, normally a fantastic actress, has a thankless role (and a distracting accent) in this episode.
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In the hierarchy of thankless Olympic jobs, judging race-walking events would easily take the top step.
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And Diana Maria Riva plays a hard-working Dominican with a seemingly endless resume of thankless jobs.
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Tending to an infant's needs before they can even crack a smile is often a thankless task.
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"Look it's a thankless job," Mr. de Blasio said this week on NY1, speaking about Mr. Ponte.
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Now he has chastised the whole world as a thankless lot of humanity — a globe of ingrates.
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Prognosticating about the impact of political events on the economy seems both doomed to failure and thankless.
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Even people who love their jobs will report they must do thankless tasks from time to time.
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Awards shows are thankless at best; there are invariably complaints about omissions and honest disagreements over winners.
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Nearly three years later, Mr. Perez arguably has the most thankless job among his top 2017 rivals.
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Being an objectivity crusader in a world like this can be a thankless job, as Reed has learned.
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Speaking of thankless winter errands, we're certain that you'd also like to avoid shoveling your doorstep every morning.
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The women are consigned to lives of thankless home-making, while the men are married to their jobs.
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Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture 6 — $19.99 See Details Putting together slides for a presentation is a thankless task.
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"My dissent is cheer / a thankless disposition," she wrote in her poetry collection "Fidelity," published the following year.
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We've known for years that it's hard to keep workers in these crucial but difficult, often thankless jobs.
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The job was a mostly toothless, and often thankless, one, but Warren became a kind of political star.
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Two years in, he remains ill suited to the complicated, thankless, often grinding work of leading the nation.
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Meanwhile, Cinderella is merged with Shakespeare's King Lear and the Bible's book of Psalms to become The Thankless Child.
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When I regained consciousness, we delved into the difficult and thankless task of fixing me (and my profile). 1.
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Save yourself from having to perform the ever-thankless chore of scraping snow off your windshield with this protector.
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A sampling of their responses: Thank goodness someone undertook the thankless task of mansplaining the romance genre to me!
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I don't mean that to be condescending: The people in Cruz's Waukesha office are doing hard and thankless work.
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That reporter was me, that thankless task among the more difficult in my more than 25 years in newspapers.
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It is no wonder, then, that many teams see modeling transfer prices as a task too thankless to contemplate.
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She'd already gone the way of Mr. Comey, dismissed by the Trump administration after 10 thankless days in office.
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Not only is caring for the old and the young an unpaid and thankless job — it has punitive consequences.
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Low-wage workers around the world are increasingly competing for thankless contract gigs like moderating content and training AI programs.
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They collect enormously valuable information—on the planet's atmosphere, biosphere, and oceans, for example—but it is largely thankless work.
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Worth noting here, too, is that directing the Han Solo spinoff could end up being kind of a thankless job.
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Those that do typically involve a criminal offense, allowing community leaders to turn the thankless investigative job over to authorities.
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KENNEDY: I&aposve seen courageous people doing jobs that are thought -- that are thankless that nobody recognize, nobody thinks of.
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"I'm happy and honored to see this type of support, especially because teaching is such a thankless profession," she said.
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"We are one year into a three-year transformation plan and this is the most thankless part," Kocher told reporters.
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But if I had been, I would have thought hard before agreeing to participate, because the work is largely thankless.
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" — DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE "Perhaps the toughest, most pivotal and thankless job in musical theater is that of the book writer.
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I say stay and be decent to everybody you meet; serve as an example, as thankless as that often feels.
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Too often people imagine organ donation as a grisly, thankless process that leaves behind nothing but a cotton-stuffed corpse.
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Mom (heretofore unmentioned, and still unseen) is given the thankless role of asking him not to park on the rug.
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The one that made us fall in love with doing mindless tasks for thankless, virtual pets for the very first time?
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Businessmen worry that Mr Wickremesinghe's painstaking but thankless efforts to straighten out the economy may be undone by more populist policies.
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Like Wall-E, these robots are in a repetitive, thankless job, but have seen the possibility of something more in life.
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When I spent a weekend with MLS referees last year, I saw just how difficult and thankless the job really is.
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The State of the Union response is a difficult and thankless job, and many other politicians have stumbled under the pressure.
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Once again it's up to Carrie's sister, Maggie (Amy Hargreaves, in one of television's more thankless roles), to angrily lecture her.
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child who won't even go to Graceland with you.
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It's a tough and thankless job, so get someone with good judgment; this person can be paid out of your estate.
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Guinness said he took up the thankless task to show solidarity for his cat that lost its paw in an accident.
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Godrèche, one of the producers, has perhaps masked her own quiet desperation trying to add depth to such a thankless role.
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For the small team stationed at the remote Niokolo Outpost next to a crocodile-laden river, the job can seem thankless.
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"I suspect you also know that the job you've been nominated for is a thankless one, fraught with numerous challenges," GOP Sen.
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Perhaps the pressure of too many people climbing it, or always feeling used and doing a thankless job has become too much.
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Anywho, The Do-Over also stars Paula Patton and Kathryn Hahn in (almost certainly) thankless roles and premieres on Netflix May 27.
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Ms. Sandberg's role is likely to be complex, expensive and thankless, people close to the company say, with any failures very public.
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She was also taking care of me, and like any good mom, she didn't mind that it was sometimes a thankless job.
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Haha yes, it's definitely thankless, and a little bit like going to a casino with your savings and playing blackjack every weekend.
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As Michelle Goldberg recently detailed in the New York Times, these are the women doing the thankless work of pounding the pavement.
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I don't see that as a thankless or depressing role, or something like that, I think it's a wonderful way of collaborating.
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Zalmay Khalilzad, the Afghan-born American envoy and architect of the deal, seemed to have been handed an impossible and thankless assignment.
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Hosting is a thankless job and there are fewer and fewer reasons for comedians and stars of note to make the commitment.
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Greg Kading, who leads a fractious squad populated with good actors in thin and thankless roles, including Bokeem Woodbine and Wendell Pierce.
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Despite what could be a thankless role as a government stooge, he more than keeps up with the cogs turning around him.
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This is typically a thankless job, but her speech may have benefited simply from being comparatively short, focused and sustained in tone.
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Being on Trump's legal team has been a thankless job because the president assumes his lawyers can automatically make problems go away.
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Chief of staff, a thankless role that tends to chew up and spit out the poor souls who have to fill it.
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In case you didn't know, being a high-level assistant is a demanding, thankless job, but it does not often require special footwear.
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Click here to view original GIFEven in the dingy, often thankless role of character actor, Christopher Hart holds a special position of anonymity.
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A UN mission, whether a multi-agency presence as in Myanmar or one of its 15 peacekeeping operations, can be a thankless task.
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While one debate will be a town-hall style exchange with voters, the other two give the moderator a thankless and impossible task.
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It's a job that requires a sturdy character, a willingness to take on thankless tasks and unthinkable challenges, and a well of empathy.
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You're supposed to cut your budget: always a thankless job — but one that, in this case, may not even be a good idea.
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"Kersey was maybe 6'5", 6'6" tops," he says of the man given the thankless task of guarding Bird for much of the night.
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The surprise turned out to be that hosting the Oscars is no longer considered a particularly plum assignment but rather a thankless task.
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There was something oddly comforting to me about this presence, as thankless and unenviable as the life of Priebus might seem these days.
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To tell a child, offhandedly, that "cleaning up Legos is a thankless job" might not indicate that you live in a moral void.
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Perez himself, an intended unity candidate for a thankless job backed by Obama allies, has not always been a unifying figure in practice.
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There are no triumphant courtroom scenes — in a way, this is just a movie about the thankless costs of doing the right thing.
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It's thankless work, even though moderators are the users plugging and replugging the same hole in a ship that's perpetually taking on water.
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But while you'd think being an Instagram husband is a thankless, grueling job, for those that we talked to, it's (surprisingly) not that bad.
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Instead, he was given a difficult job in South Wales, a thankless task with a club that has been floundering for some time now.
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It was a muggy August day and her job was thankless: hose down the cells and clean the feces left from the previous haul.
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Charging the batteries of shareable electric scooters overnight — the latest entry in our metastasizing gig economy — can be a bit of a thankless task.
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That's especially true of Laura Linney's thankless part as Sullenberger's wife, whose only exchanges with him are inexplicably conducted via rushed cell phone calls.
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"Serving my country has always been a privilege, but it has never been so hard or thankless," one agent said, according to the report.
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Law enforcement officers are members of one of the most demanding and thankless professions out there; they should be constantly commended for their actions.
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At times it will seem like a thankless job, yet Kudlow must be tireless in this pursuit if he has any hope of succeeding.
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Part of me thinks that it's sheer drudgery, mindless and thankless work that I am lucky and privileged enough to be able to outsource.
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What we as a society need to do is ask ourselves, what can we be doing to support those who do this thankless job?
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While submitting a study can lead to a publication that is valuable for an academic's career, peer-review can be a more thankless task.
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How it's a thankless culture and people burn out and the average tenure is short and sometimes people don't have nice things to say.
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He drops two pizzas immediately and winds up doing the humiliating and thankless job of wearing a sign for the pizza shop out front instead.
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Their product line is best described as timeless essentials done mercilessly well — which, for a primarily online brand, could be seen as a thankless task.
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But by the end, he found the task of managing Mr. Trump to be impossible, and often complained to colleagues that the role was thankless.
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The job of President of the United States is a thankless one, and when it comes to the Middle East, a hopeless one as well.
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Thanks for a thankless job One day after the deaths, Brown addressed a massive crowd of supporters gathered in the city's aptly named Thanksgiving Square.
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The Hollywood Reporter found that the problem with hosting the Oscars is it's a thankless job that pays little and requires a lot of work.
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The Handmaid's Tale takes place in a society that views womanhood not as something human, but as a series of thankless roles — wife, domestic, handmaid.
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The taxonomy gets more sophisticated as these thankless roles split into five archetypes: the duct tapers, the goons, the flunkies, box tickers and task masters.
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Steve Rose, The Guardian: Overshadowed by this alpha-male chest-off, the women are given thankless, almost interchangeable roles as love interests and swimsuit models.
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Jackman is unsurprisingly good in the thankless John Candy-esque role of Bronson Peary; it's not Jackman's fault that his character's redemption angle feels hollow.
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It is an often thankless job but one which she says is more than just a way to earn a living and feed her children.
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A nurse's line of work is often physically exhausting, emotionally and mentally draining, and frustratingly thankless — few people are more deserving of a Caribbean getaway.
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And so in her new land Elena came, joyfully, to perform all the boring, thankless jobs of a political campaign because she knew the alternative.
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Domestic labor is boring and thankless, but when done well, it contributes to a sense of stability and well-being for everyone in the household.
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It is hard and often thankless work that can stretch for months with no days off, and everything comes down to a successful calving season.
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It is, to hear the new president's posse tell it, an exceptionally dangerous and thankless time to be a police officer in the United States.
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He was a third-string center whose main job was to face off in practice against the starting defensive unit, a punishing and thankless task.
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Congressional leadership isn't about being popular, it's about not being afraid to wear the blame for the often thankless job of making a positive difference.
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Though Enid Graham is fine in the thankless part of Gallimard's wife, the character of his macho best friend (Murray Bartlett) remains an annoying device.
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Penélope Cruz has the largely thankless role of Valentina Valencia, an agent for Interpol's "global fashion division" investigating the murders of the world's most beautiful celebrities.
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The White House chief of staff position is perhaps the most difficult in the US government and often viewed by those who have served as thankless.
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Not having a host also means not having to find one, especially given the conventional wisdom that hosting the Oscars is a thankless, high-risk proposition.
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They are still worried that talking about what appears to be very consistent inequalities in their lived experiences makes them appear thankless for the entire opportunity.
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Dinnin described the job of running the facility as a thankless task, and one his organization took on grudgingly with the kids' best interests in mind.
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Rather, Mallory is going to work almost as respite from the "thankless and tireless" job of being a stay-at-home mom, as Decker put it.
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I reach out for an animated woman in an orange shirt, whose thankless job is to escort me away from this kangaroo court and towards safety.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Fighting corruption in Iraq is such a relentless and thankless job that Hassan al-Yasiri has been trying for nearly a year to quit.
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It might seem that trying to reinvent such gatherings is a thankless task in a world where we can instantly communicate in so many virtual ways.
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Corporate social media is a thankless job, and if you fail in any way, you have millions of people who see your mistake in real time.
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DOHA, Qatar — It seemed a thankless and impossible assignment: negotiating a deal with the Taliban that offers the United States an exit from its longest war.
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DOHA, Qatar — It seemed a thankless and impossible assignment: negotiating a deal with the Taliban that offers the United States an exit from its longest war.
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From 2003 to 2005 he was a masterful finance minister — one of the few to hold the thankless job of budgetary naysayer and emerge politically unscarred.
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Since predicting the actions and moods of the man in the White House is a notoriously thankless task, I will have to leave it at that.
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Hardaway, who figures to be a part of the team's future, has alluded to the toll of losing, to the thankless process of a perpetual rebuild.
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Shot-put at the elite level is an often thankless job, with most of the suffering and little of the glory common to other professional sports.
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And there is time for reflection and a relishing of life, away from the senseless, thankless, harrowing rush-rush-rush and moodiness of the female workers.
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The rest of the Hut team share a similar vision, as well as the desire to escape the often thankless working environment of many conventional restaurants.
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Being the woman to restore order as others fight can be a thankless task, whether it's on the debate stage or in a more ordinary workplace.
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Abroad, he has taken aim at the belief, embraced by every post-war president, that America gains from the often thankless task of being the global hegemon.
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And they'll owe it all to a handful of unsung heroes who labored for years at a thankless task to ensure the kilogram remains truly constant forever.
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His decision to scurry for the exits could be read as a sign that he views the job of presiding over Brexit as a thankless dead end.
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Trump has displayed little interest in the policy itself, casting it as a thankless chore to be done before getting to tax-cut legislation he values more.
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Those who have never experienced shoveling snow should feel blessed, because it's tough and thankless work, every bit as miserable as you may imagine it to be.
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DJing is a thankless art form in this way — they are doing their best work when you hardly notice them because you're so lost in the music.
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So says Fredrick Lokule, a veteran civil servant who is passionate about bureaucracy, of all things — specifically tax collection, the thankless task that any functioning state requires.
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They said covering Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" was a thankless task, that the most perfect Christmas song could not be improved upon.
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Most guards are simply trying to work a stressful, thankless job in an ugly place so that they can put food on the table for their families.
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They are allowed to be sillier than either of the two stars, who are saddled with the thankless task of providing sentimental ballast that nobody really needs.
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On Washington WASHINGTON — It does most of its work in secret, can be highly partisan and its members consider it a thankless job with few political benefits.
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This group of women also kept a document known as the "Bible," which was created by assistants and passed down to other women in the thankless job.
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But open-source work is a largely thankless job that people volunteer to participate in, and their work is rarely seen outside of a small group of people.
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It's a thankless role in a lot of ways — people rarely compliment the crisp sound on a picture, but you can bet viewers complain if audio is askew.
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" When Moretz calls Refinery29 from New York City in the midst of her latest press tour, she has just celebrated her 22nd birthday, a milestone she calls "thankless.
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When her strongest card seems to be that no one else is keen to take on a thankless job with little future, then stability is not a given.
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Officially, however, China supports dialogue above all, leaving Wu the thankless job of trying to coax North Korea and its neighbors and rivals back to the negotiating table.
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She might be an embittered idealist who joined Cambridge Analytica after years of thankless and poorly paid progressive activism, only to recant after realizing she'd lost her way.
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Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross) could take the semi-thankless position of arguing for the legal system (and wanting to keep her younger kids innocent) without seeming simply naïve.
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Third, President Obama was thinking hard on his legacy — the big stuff, not all the thankless little laws and orders that benefit many but are remembered by few.
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Ingles simply never tires at doing all the most thankless defensive tasks others either feel they're above or too exhausting to execute on multiple possessions in a row.
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Trainee: Well, it's the symbol of excellence, a symbol of pride that people are willing to defend the United States of America in a very thankless, dangerous job.
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You can appreciate why reassurance would be important to the man charged with the seemingly thankless task of midwifing the Party of Lincoln into the Party of Trump.
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I offered to help with farmwork, but nobody dared put me to such a thankless task, because I was a judge's son and my arms were so thin.
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They're saddled with the thankless job of dumping story details in between scenes, speaking to us about the rivalry from a couch in flash-forwards to 1978 interviews.
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Localization is a tough, taxing, and often thankless job, but it's because of their work that we can enjoy games that otherwise would have been lost to us.
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Underlying the chatter among Republicans is an understanding that the speakership has always been a thankless job, and has become all the more fraught under the Trump presidency.
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TRIGGER (Mulholland, $27) finds Marr on another thankless case, trying to clear a close friend on the D.C. police force who's been accused of shooting an unarmed teenager.
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One of the most thankless professions in the US — and one of the fastest-growing — had its moment in the spotlight Sunday during the 21970st Academy Awards ceremony.
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Keeping the front page of the internet clean has become a thankless and abusive task, and yet Reddit's administration has repeatedly neglected to respond to moderators who report offenses.
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For a lot of folks, spending hours rescheduling routes, shuttling around passengers, and, yes, picking up trash, sounds like a thankless bout of community service, not a video game.
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You see, Hillary has spent decades doing the relentless, thankless work to actually make a difference in their lives -- (applause) -- advocating for kids with disabilities as a young lawyer.
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Moyes already looks like a bedraggled Scottish gran at this point, exhausted by the thankless toil of football management and desperate to retire to a cottage in rural Aberdeenshire.
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Abiteboul said being an engine provider was an often thankless task but the rules, with a driver's allocation reduced to three units from four, made reliability even more important.
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In a passage I can relate to too poignantly, she consoles herself that Joan Didion honed her prose style in the equally thankless task of drafting captions at Vogue.
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In the end, the performers' high energy feels weirdly thankless; they shift their voices and their posture and their personalities, and they're all still just subsumed into blockbuster noise.
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If there ever was a loser issue designed to suck huge amounts of thankless effort out of any would-be mediator without achieving results, it's the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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Being a comedian can be a thankless grind, but in Pete (not to mention Holmes's) hands, it's a joy to remember that the whole point is to make people laugh.
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We often overlook people who do thankless work — those who day after day dutifully carry out tasks that most of us would rather not think about, let alone do ourselves.
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Illuminati's notes can help us do just that, adding an element of levity and solidarity to the often isolating and thankless job of raising up small humans into decent people.
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Long assigned the thankless role of the humorless shrew to her doofy male counterpart, Heigl slyly subverts her own onscreen persona by taking it to a chilling extreme in Unforgettable.
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Fortunately for Theon Greyjoy, he's taken on the incredibly thankless role of defending Bran, the bait in the Godswood, so he'll have his chance to die brutally for the Starks.
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Frieda is back for the clueless white person lols, and the pair will continue to do thankless work for kids under their well-meaning and occasionally Ice Cube-quoting boss.
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Putting Fitzgerald on screen is a thankless business — his infinitely delicate realism withers in the light, and if you can't capture the texture of his prose, there's really no point.
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Murray Hill, Manhattan Serving on a co-op board is a thankless job: You do not get paid for your efforts, and people love to hate whatever decisions you make.
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Still, Mr. Chang and Ms. Fishkin emphasized that the thousands of Chinese migrants contributed more than backbreaking labor, and that their story is more nuanced than one of thankless toil.
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In some ways, it's a relief that the first lady is rarely called upon to perform the thankless task of trying to convince the country that her husband respects women.
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The Jewish New Jersey women I know are talented professionals in every field, and often in those two thankless professions that Roth quite likely required to thrive: teachers and therapists.
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Dan Baldwin, a former attaché in Beijing now serving as head of a regional office of the Office of Global Enforcement, was assigned the thankless task of massaging the news.
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We're considered on the far-left because we believe that the national security apparatus is made up of good people who do a thankless job day-in and day-out.
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Watching him work — equally fluent in Spanish, English and baseball — he seems well suited for that thankless task, but not in a way that can be easily articulated or proved.
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With a megawatt smile, an affirmation for every occasion and a beautiful husband by her side (a thankless role, capably handled by Mike Colter), Ryan seems to have it all.
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CreditCreditRozette Rago for The New York Times Few jobs are more thankless, or invite more cursing and murderous glares on any given workday, than that of a parking enforcement officer.
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For what seemed like consolation for not being cast in the show, Criss had the supremely thankless role of hosting the backstage commercial proceedings, often squelching any excitement following big numbers.
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Machines take over the thankless tasks that were, until recently, too complex to be automated, and humans get to immerse themselves in the most creative and rewarding aspects of their jobs.
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Well, there's at least one person still on a thankless quest to catch 'em all, and it looks like he's using as many phones as possible to get the job done.
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It's a thankless, hopeless job and will provide journalists -- and the late-night comedy writers, our wisecracking professional cousins -- with endless opportunities to tell a modern version of an ancient tale.
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From there, we meet Arnold, whose thankless job as a singing telegram means he's having a very bad, "need to get changed in the back of a cab" kind of day.
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Enforcing House rules and standards of conduct on one's colleagues and their staffs is a thankless but necessary task and can make for some uncomfortable elevator rides with colleagues under investigation.
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Some in Republican leadership circles are frustrated that the White House has no unified position on the debt ceiling strategy and appears willing to make GOP leadership do the thankless work.
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Reince Priebus has discovered quicker than most what all chiefs come to learn eventually: that the White House chief of staff position is the most difficult and thankless job in government.
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It's a thankless job and there's no way Oprah would want to give up depositing monster checks while cosplaying with her dog and stopping people in their tracks at royal weddings.
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With post-match interviews fundamentally ill-timed when it comes to interacting with managers, the journalists presiding over them are left with one of the most thankless tasks in the game.
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The one app that is getting a big update this year is Photos, which Apple launched last year with the thankless task of replacing iPhoto and smoothing over years of frustration.
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A thorough window cleaning is one of the more thankless tasks on the household chore list, but fortunately, it's one you only have to complete a couple of times per year.
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In contrast, Ella is a young woman, knocking on thirty, who spends months taking care of Jill—a thankless, arduous task that could not be more unglamorous, self-effacing, and heartfelt.
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The big picture: Moderation is usually understood to be the onerous and thankless cleanup task that these social media giants have had to shoulder as they scaled up to global ubiquity.
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The songs are beautifully arranged by Daryl Waters and sung better by the three lead women (and by Emily Skinner, in the thankless role of Cher's mother) than Cher usually did.
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For just as long, veteran diplomats have pointed out that tinkering with the department's organization chart is the kind of necessary but thankless duty that a secretary usually assigns an assistant.
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Role of previous spouses At the CIA, being the spouse of an agency employee -- from an overseas operator or an analyst to a high-ranking official -- can be grueling and thankless.
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And, after Sherlocking all day, sources tell me that the most likely exec to be named to that high-profile (and thankless) job as early as tomorrow could be Leslie Berland.
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But grown-up Carl is awfully bland — whether because being a narrator is a thankless task, or because his off-the-wall family made him want to become as milquetoast as possible.
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Bluntly, this pivot was intended to shift American attention away from thankless wars in the Middle East and from a moribund Europe, towards a region deemed likely to dominate the 21st century.
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Of the two imams, the younger one displays a democratising zeal in his arguments about Quranic interpretation; both offload thankless community duties, such as reciting the call to prayer, onto older clerics.
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This was a thankless task that I viewed as something like being on jury duty in exchange for being permitted to use the internet, upon which much of my life was built.
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According to Gates, it's the mundane, monotonous, and thankless practice leading up to those moments of insight that defines who you are as a designer and ultimately curates your portfolio of work.
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Reaching out to a thankless regime under the pretext of shared nationhood may contribute to an immediate reduction in tensions, but he is alienating a large segment of the South Korean electorate.
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Many players and coaches understand officiating is an inherently thankless occupation, and in the W.N.B.A., the referees must call a game notably different in style and rules from other levels of basketball.
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Which has meant First Children going through adolescence on the world stage, and spouses who've worked as lawyers and teachers pressed into thankless, unsalaried and highly-scrutinized service as hostesses in chief.
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Ivan Pavlov, Ms. Dupuy's lawyer, said that predicting the outcome of the case was a "thankless job," given the Russian government's reluctance to re-examine the murky elements of the Soviet past.
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Lewis and Fleming are thankless parts, which may be appropriate to a show about women who rule, but it doesn't make their whiny company less tedious, despite the talented actors playing them.
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May, and a victory for Conservative colleagues who chose her as leader not to help them win elections but to finish the thankless task of navigating Britain's departure from the European Union.
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But it was even true in Dogville, Lars von Trier's polarizing film about America's inability to see its own worst self, where Hurt played the role of "narrator," normally a thankless part.
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Weaknesses exist—including an offensive rigidity that prohibits him from being much more than a tepid playmaker, at best—but they're embraced warmly enough thanks to all the thankless tasks he provides elsewhere.
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And British Prime Minister Theresa May is still struggling to complete her country's exit from the European Union, a thankless task that has earned her both ridicule and rivals from her own party.
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Sixty percent of abortions are are performed by independent providers in our country, according to a 2017 Abortion Care Network report, and advocates on the ground are doing incredible and often thankless work.
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It would take another few decades before the reserve clause was toppled altogether—largely due to the thankless legal challenge brought by Curt Flood—but both Gardella and Pasquel had made their mark.
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As conflict spiraled and casualties increased, so would international pressure for another costly, protracted and thankless American-led ground intervention to enforce peace, which domestic opinion in the United States would not support.
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His thankless task: To get back a license that would allow the troubled car-hailing company to operate in its key European market after it was deemed "unfit" to operate a taxi service.
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Harbour does manage to conjure a reasonably effective performance under his crimson-hued skin and bulging biceps, and McShane is invariably fun to watch, even in a role as thankless as this one.
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I wasn't expecting awards-level performances here, but only Hernandez and Robinson make a lasting impression, and poor Curry (so good in American Pastoral here at TIFF) is completely wasted in a thankless role.
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But Pixar managed to win over audiences with a wide-eyed waste compactor named Wall-E who's assigned the thankless task of cleaning up the heaps of trash humans have left all over Earth.
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It's clear that Facebook has found itself in a thankless role that it has historically had little appetite for—an arbiter tasked with detecting good-faith and bad-faith usage of its own platform.
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Whether it's running her own successful business venture, holding down thankless shifts or saving the world, these shows get some essential truths about life as a working mom pretty dead-on, Working Mother writes.
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He spoke of the thankless work done by police officers around the country, and of the legitimate grievances that many black people feel from years of discrimination, including at the hands of law enforcement.
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And then there are the women, who have the most thankless parts, and include Ms. Taylor as the mother of Hildy's fiancée and Ms. Scott as the streetwalker who has befriended the condemned man.
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The entirety of the Fire Emblem series can now be played in English, thanks to an uneasy and thankless collaboration between the company who makes these games, Nintendo, and the fans who cherish them.
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Those attracted little public attention for Mr. Bush's failed White House bid, but the experience gave Mr. Muzinich a taste of doing thankless work in a political caldron and managing big personalities under pressure.
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Michael Rapaport has the somewhat thankless job of playing Sam's father, Doug, a stereotypical clueless dad who often seems barely to have realized that he's been living with an autistic child for 18 years.
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The thankless task of convincing everyone to unite and turn back this formidable foe falls upon the heroic-but-gloomy Jon Snow, former commander of the Night's Watch and reluctant King of the North.
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It's exhausting and thankless, and knowing that (even without children!) I'll be coming home to hours of more work affects my ability to put in extra time at my lab compared to male colleagues.
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They're seeking to cut back on laborious pageantry that may please the guilds and flatter the famous, but that consistently leads to poor reviews and the most thankless hosting job on the show-business calendar.
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With a mix of cautious optimism and rightfully cynical pragmatism, the organizations and figures so often quietly waging a thankless war to protect the online privacy of American citizens found themselves with reason to celebrate.
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Brave, because labour reforms, as Germany and Spain know, take time to translate into job creation, and usually hand political rewards to the successors of those who do the thankless work of getting them through.
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The work of allowing people to see bits of their pain in your own pain is often thankless but needed labor — labor that takes on a heavier weight as the platform of an artist grows.
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The time that you've put in, the work that you do that maybe feels thankless sometimes--has allowed a young runner to be able to complete her dream and run in her first Boston Marathon.
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Give much of the credit to McGregor in the thankless task of playing opposite his adorably furry co-stars, ably handling the comedy derived from the fact that he doesn't dare let others see them.
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"What you are doing is, unfortunately, a thankless job, that I think should be given more credit and highlighted — men and women of color doing their job on that side of the law," Washington added.
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And the report showed that those who say yes to thankless tasks — like planning holiday parties, filling in for absent colleagues or serving on low-level committees — are 48 percent more likely to be women.
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We ask him why he does it, when the communication between community and cop has deteriorated so badly, when the job seems so thankless and the prospects so bleak, so enmeshed in South African stereotypes.
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This was not a lowly, thankless position but a mark of honor: At one point, Alexander the Great's edeatros was Ptolemy, the trusted general who would eventually seize control of Egypt after his superior's death.
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Ms. Tan is on far stronger, truer ground when she moves away from Thana's home life with his wife, Bo (Penpak Sirikul in a thankless, shrewish role), and leaves behind psychological explanation and matrimonial strife.
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Getting visitors to think about the sinking of a city, or even the thankless labor that built their communication apparatus, is its own sort of helpful device, and I forgive that it does so stylishly.
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Instead of reading books, they spent years practicing singing or dancing or throwing a sportsball so that we could watch their performances and be briefly distracted from the misery of our comparably boring and thankless existence.
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Spider-Man's pursuits get splashed all over the front page of newspapers and TV, but it's not the hard, thankless work of helping someone fill out the right paperwork so they can (hopefully) get a job.
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Experienced foreign policy hands sigh at such conditions, noting that being a superpower has often been a thankless task, and that America accrues great benefits as well as costs from being a global guarantor of security.
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It might not have been for something they did about climate change, but it was something they genuinely appreciated, and it was an acknowledgement that those who represent us have a difficult, if not thankless job.
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At the same time, the outpouring of public support for undocumented New Yorkers facing expulsion has also brought a certain amount of recognition toward those who work the often thankless and dangerous job of meal delivery.
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Unfortunately, such preparations are good mostly for jobs that are thankless and don't pay because — yes, this is a tautology and totally messed up — women have historically filled such jobs, and so society undervalues them completely.
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"Primeval" (season 4, episode 21) "Primeval" has the thankless job of winding up the Initiative plot line, and it manages to do so in a satisfying way by not even pretending to care about the Initiative.
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The last three elections for the presidency of U.S. Soccer, a position that is alternately powerful and thankless but always unpaid, could not muster even the two candidates necessary to qualify it as an actual race.
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Meanwhile, the marriage of his brother, Dale (also Mr. Galifianakis), hits the rocks, leaving the men's mother (Louie Anderson) to choose between dedicating her life to her thankless sons or finding a love of her own.
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But even with weekly grosses exceeding a million dollars, "China Doll," which is directed by Pam MacKinnon (a thankless task), soon found itself being circled by theater vultures for whom the scent of disaster is an aphrodisiac.
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Then Sessions spent two nearly-thankless years laboring to give Trump one, using every power he possessed as attorney general to ensure that the scales of justice tip toward punishment of unauthorized immigrants as often as possible.
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But you can see it sooner if you aren't ashamed of your browsing history There is a faster way to see the Broadway smash hit/cultural force, and it's all because of the thankless work of trolls.
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The Rights were there from the beginning, they must be Taken Back Again, including the mysteries which were ours and which were violated, stolen or destroyed, leaving us with the thankless hope of pleasing a male animal.
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"President Trump's Twitter feed is a repugnant place, and no one would want the thankless task of having to weed through all his bitter, bigoted ramblings to determine which are the most offensive," the editorial board wrote.
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Ms. Cox, known as Miss Beverly at Harborview, said that supplying absentee ballots was a thankless, laborious task — shuttling applications and then ballots to and from City Hall for her neighbors, many of whom are physically disabled.
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But the companies are only as good as the humans they hire, and the job of content moderator is largely a thankless one — the daily slog of viewing vast amounts of objectionable content has a psychological toll attached.
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Last May, she joined forces with organizations like Movimiento Cosecha to stage a "Day Without Immigrants" — a nationwide strike empowering thousands of unauthorized workers to underscore the necessary, thankless, and often under-paid jobs they perform every day.
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Richard T. Jones, meanwhile, fields the rather thankless role of the sober-minded detective trying to corral this fast-talking mogul and curb his impulsiveness, which starts when he offers a huge reward to find his kid's killer.
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And it would be almost understandable, in the midst of so much thankless labor, in a climate so wracked by fear over the dangerous contents of the American mind, to forget why you started in the first place.
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Going beyond the aforementioned entries, we also have PLAY MAKER, PERESTROIKA, LATE EDITION, TSAR ALEXANDER II (a highly specific entry which is not making a debut, believe it or not), EXOPLANETS, SEX PISTOLS, SAY HEY KID and THANKLESS.
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Trim this back by a few characters — Strange's love interest, Christine (Rachel McAdams), is trapped in a particularly thankless role — and simplify the film's conflicts to best express the characters' differences, and it would feel a lot less messy.
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But in this case the reason you haven't heard much about it isn't because it's a failure, but because fact-checking is boring and thankless — and being done quietly and systematically by people who are just fine with that.
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Every state is different when it comes to teacher requirements, but generally, new teachers much submit paperwork, identification, a background check, fingerprints and log months' worth of hours to get certified for the most thankless job in the country.
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"Bags under my eyes by two thankless a–holes who refused to go to bed the night before, despite the fact I read them Winnie the Pooh and nearly half of Stephen King's The Shining," joked the Deadpool star.
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Writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman tell the story of a beleaguered mom (Charlize Theron) who hires a night nanny (Mackenzie Davis) and gets real about the exhausting, frustrating, and often thankless grind of that glorious journey known as parenthood.
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Obama's joke, silly as it was, was a recognition that they're on the same page here, that he recognizes she has the temperament for this thankless task, a steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes.
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And she told me that, for her, it sometimes feels thankless, but that she has backbone and for her, at night, when she puts her head down on the pillow she wants to know that she did the right thing.
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So if you do end up going to Kohl's to make an Amazon return, do try to remember that you're dealing with generally poorly-compensated retail workers that have been sucked into doing more thankless work for a sprawling logistics machine.
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Even in uncontroversial years, hosting the Oscars can be a thankless task in which a good host may be praised briefly but a bad job - like the awkward 2011 stint by Anne Hathaway and James Franco - is remembered for years.
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But the recent drive for independence has been energised by anger over the flow of fiscal redistribution from rich Catalans to their countrymen: people seen, in parts of the restless north-east, as thankless and lazy as well as alien.
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The Night Of As Nazir Khan, Riz Ahmed has excelled at playing a passive character, which is one of the more difficult assignments for an actor — or at least one of the more thankless, given the absence of emotional pyrotechnics.
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"I had dreamed about someday buying a vineyard, but it's a very capital-intensive and thankless business," said Sébastien Boucraut, 46, a French commodities executive based in Dubai who flies in with two longtime friends to sample their Viniv creation.
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There are valid arguments against him going to Los Angeles, but still plenty of positives to take away from how he's played this season, in a thankless role as one of the 20 most skilled offensive players in the world.
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Walsh's article included less-than-sylvan details about cash handoffs to gangsters, someone smashing an acoustic guitar over Morrison's head and insights from the singer's first wife, Janet Rigsbee ("Being a muse is a thankless job, and the pay is lousy").
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Whatever the proposal's merits, the Byford team had taken on a thankless, vital task that others had shirked: modernizing bus routes based on ancient lines drawn by streetcar companies, little changed since horses pulled milk wagons on the same roads.
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Hosting is a thankless job that many celebrities turn down; fully vetting a host (scrubbing their social media accounts for potentially offensive comments) is time-consuming and far from foolproof; and last year's host-free show stopped the ratings free-fall.
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Laid off from his job as a tech specialist, Cam is introduced as an unlucky victim of a churning economy, forced to take on the thankless job of rideshare driving to pay alimony and child support to his ex-wife.
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The preppy look was so dominant that school principals tasked with enforcing dress codes in the '20153s and '22015s, a thankless job considering the dominant trends of long hair for guys and micro-mini skirts for girls, started to relax.
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Both of those roles were pretty thankless, and now that Jon has decided to unite — politically and, um, physically — with Daenerys Targaryen (aka Jon's aunt), life's about to get a lot more difficult for everyone on Team Snowgaryen heading into the final season.
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The CMO's role in helping to shape Twitter's response to this challenge — both by partnering with others for new initiatives but also in coming up with the best way to present Twitter to the world — will be crucial, and quite possibly thankless.
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One of many major issues with the "All-Out War" arc has been the extended time it's spent on thankless storylines with B-characters like Eugene, Jesus, Gregory, and Aaron, who have done nothing to merit the screen time they've been given.
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Click here to view original GIFI always assumed that inspecting film would be a thankless job done out of sight in a back room and, well, it kind of is, but Michael Rousselet makes it look way more fun than it should be.
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Photo: GettyIn case low salaries and thankless work weren't enough to keep you from seeking a public service job in Arizona, a new bill seeks to force applicants to hand over a sample of their DNA and pay a $250 processing fee.
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UNITED NATIONS — For the first time in the history of the United Nations, those vying to be the next secretary general have to post their résumés, subject themselves to open hearings and declare publicly why they want this plummy — and thankless — job.
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Eventually, another Western Pennsylvania native, Sal Sunseri, then the Michigan State linebackers and special-teams coach and now a linebackers coach for the Oakland Raiders, told McAdoo that he could assume some of the thankless, nonpaying, quasi-clerical duties in the football program.
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In an act of defiance aimed at his executive Yvonne (Nicole Kidman, in a pretty thankless part), Philip chooses Dell, who accedes to the request, but only by placing the new hire -- of whom she clearly disapproves -- on a short three-strikes leash.
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Short film 'The Moderators' takes a look at the thankless job of patrolling the web Facebook in a blog post says that it is working on doubling its "safety and security" staff to 20,000, among which 7,500 will be on moderation duty.
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McGahn had the thankless job of deflecting Trump's worst impulses, including halfheartedly making the case to Attorney General Jeff Sessions not to recuse himself from the Russia investigation in March 2017 or threatening to resign rather than fire Mueller in June 2017.
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Perhaps Kamala D. Harris, whose talents are currently being wasted setting Matt Gaetz straight on Twitter (truly a thankless task if there ever was one), when she could be marshaling an entire country into an orderly, guideline-abiding response to the crisis.
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One of the challenges in booking an Oscar host has been that it now seems like such a thankless task, with logical A-list names shying away from being placed under that microscope (see Kevin Hart's experience), in a "Life's too short" manner.
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To be sure, anyone serving as press secretary for Mr. Trump has a thankless task, and Mr. Spicer's turn at the controls of the Trump train has been bumpy enough to deter several Republican strategists from seeking a job in the White House.
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If you work on an independent film — typically a thankless job with low pay (if you're lucky) and no sleep and only a slim hope of distribution — the premiere is a big deal, and if it's at Sundance, it's the biggest of deals.
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Nate McMillan could face a thankless task when the Indiana Pacers head coach makes out his lineup for Wednesday night's home contest with the Atlanta Hawks, considering he had no idea Tuesday if any of his top four scorers are healthy enough to play.
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Will it be necessary to come up with some novel procedure to fill the gap, knowing that there is no person on the face of the planet who has the unique blend of talents, independence, stature, and fortitude to taken on so thankless a task?
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Come January, when the next president takes office and starts the difficult, thankless task of building alliances and getting laws passed, he or she may look back at the Al Smith dinner wistfully, as a wasted chance to start healing a bitterly divided nation.
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It also cast her as an inveterate do-gooder, diving into thankless, unsexy social work from the second she graduated from college, a portrait that could not be further from the scheming Lady Macbeth version of Hillary that we are all so familiar with.
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Shirt designs by Kyle Crawford Out of all the thankless jobs that exist in this world, being a freelance merchandise designer is far from the worst option—but it is true that there are much less stressful ways for a designer to make a living.
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All too often, the only time anyone worries about the vision of the project as a whole is at the very beginning, when the overworked project manager(s) initially deal(s) with the thankless task of decomposing the entire project into a forest of tickets.
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Following the president around in case news breaks is a frequently thankless but important job, and when the president does something casual and uneventful like playing golf, the pool is often only able to report whom he played with, how many holes, and so on.
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It's also thankless because you can stop 40 shots, reactively contorting yourself into the shape of a W to get a mitt on a 140mph slap shot, but if you let three other shots in, you fucking suck and everyone, me included, wants you benched.
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The fact that Republicans have ruled out a hearing makes the situation unique and formidable for whoever is chosen and agrees to take on what could be a frustrating and thankless task at a moment that is usually the pinnacle of a legal career.
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Tyler James Williams rounds out the team as the tech guru in front of the computer screens at Quantico, a particularly thankless role here because he also has to leave his lair to comfort the families of the dopey Americans who get into trouble overseas.
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For 90 minutes on Tuesday night, Mr. Pence, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, was asked, over and over, to carry out perhaps the most unenviable, thankless and futile task in American politics: answering for Mr. Trump's cruel name-calling, factual distortions and radical proposals.
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The networking was just part of the support Reed and other black women—including the founders of African-American Women on the Hill, an organization established to connect staffers—created to keep one another empowered to continue the long hours of sometimes thankless work.
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Fred Armisen's monologue as a scandalized bishop is priceless; but it's the fabulous Lauren Weedman (who injected warmth and pathos into the thankless role of a gay man's best friend on the regrettably short-lived HBO show "Looking") who rises above her one-note character.
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Working in politics is often thankless, and many aides love to hear from new voices, especially ones who are willing to stake out controversial positions on big issues, sound the alarm on bad policies or help move the Overton window to enable better solutions.
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One reason: Sitting on a board can be a thankless and all-consuming task — one that is definitely unpaid — which makes the toil of running a building impractical for most people who are in the early stages of their careers or starting a family.
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And the task is mostly thankless: Teams on the bubble that do get in feel they belonged and rarely feel the need to offer gratitude; teams on the bubble that are left out, and exiled to the National Invitation Tournament, have little use for explanations.
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And tonight, when you get home from your excruciatingly thankless job of creating meaningless spreadsheets and sink into a warm, pumpkin-spice bubble bath, you can drink pumpkin spice liqueur straight from the bottle, choking down sickeningly sweet gulps until the bottle becomes lighter and lighter.
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In recent years Fried took on some of the most thankless tasks of US diplomacy -- lobbying countries to take in Guantanamo detainees who were released from captivity and coordinating sanctions policy against North Korea over its nuclear program and against Russia over its actions in Ukraine.
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Project Include may lose access to some new business leaders, but the move has raised the profile of the relatively unknown organization, and that may enhance its ability to carry out the thankless and difficult job of promoting "diversity and inclusion solutions" in the tech industry.
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The doctors are within their rights to strike (daily tolerating punishing hours and thankless conditions at an hourly pay rate that would insult many in less skilled jobs), yet their decision to do so seems odd after talks at which, even the BMA conceded, progress was made.
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Just as the best part of being a bartender is the free booze and the best part of being a TSA worker is the left-behind portable DVD players, free weed may be the best part of working a thankless job in the fast food industry.
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True story: As the executive branch of the American government is revealed to be a sinkhole of corruption and deceit, a career F.B.I. man with silver hair and a reputation for righteousness takes up the thankless task of investigating the suspected wrongdoing and attendant cover-up.
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But Mr. Levy, an admirer of poetry and of Sir Thomas More, whose chancellorship under King Henry VIII may have been the ultimate thankless job, plunged into his new position with optimism, nervous humor and the frenzied pace of a power broker eager to shake things up.
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None of which is to denigrate the performance of brokerage-house strategists, for whom arbitrary index targets are a small and thankless part of the job, and who try most often to steer clients to the right parts of the markets rather than nail the number.
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More importantly, however, these machines served the needs of a changing musical style where the beats themselves — no longer the thankless work of a drummer sitting at the back of a stage — would begin to work more intimately alongside the vocals, and even shine on their own.
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In parts charmingly originated onscreen by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, the house-haunting, newly dead young couple Adam and Barbara (the talented Rob McClure and Kerry Butler in thankless roles) are shown mourning the absence of the child they never got around to having while they were alive.
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I know that changing careers sounds terrifying, but think about it this way: if you're in a thankless job where your skills are underutilized and you're being underpaid, not only are you going to be bored and unhappy, but your career and your life are going to suffer.
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This makes SIU's proposal particularly outrageous, not only because it asks people to volunteer to engage in the tough and often thankless work of educating, but also because (unlike with public K-12 education), parents are paying tens of thousands of dollars for their sons and daughters to get college degrees.
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Letter To the Editor: "Ban Ki-moon's Thankless Position" (editorial, June 11) says the secretary general "had no real choice" but to capitulate to Saudi Arabia's demands that he remove the Saudi-led coalition from his "list of shame" for killing and maiming children and attacking schools and hospitals in Yemen.
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So much of Kleber's role is thankless—sometimes he'll venture off his man to block a shot he has no chance at, leaving his man free to gobble up the rebound—but he's a reliable starter on what might be the best bad team this league's seen in years. 9.
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Though the series is often quite poignant in its depiction of their thankless work, Getting On still manages to temper its heavier subject matter with bedpans upon bedpans full of Office-style awkwardness, a revolving door of eccentric patients, and more discussion of bodily functions than you could possibly imagine.
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Walking door-to-door to try to win over campaign-wary Iowans can be lonely and thankless work, but opinion polls showing a tight race and Democrats' widespread aversion to Trump have kept volunteers coming to the rural state that hosts the nation's first nominating contest of the 2020 election.
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It charts how the achingly slow, often thankless and arduous work of modernising society routinely meets resistance where it should not: getting wages and health care recognised as women's issues, introducing measures to raise the proportion of women MPs, improving child care, increasing the pitifully low rate of prosecutions of domestic-violence perpetrators.
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Every time I think back to the indignities she and my dad faced as adult immigrants in the US, all the thankless emotional labor she's put in to secure my family's happiness and financial stability, I feel the kind of reverence for my mom that many reserve for teenage heartthrobs or religious deities.
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The other is Patricia, Baroness Scotland, a Dominica-born former attorney-general of Britain, who as secretary-general for the past three years has had the thankless task of trying to revive an outfit that, apart from the occasional sporting and heads-of-country jamboree, is widely reckoned to be pretty pointless.
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And also, Eddie happens to have a lawyer ex-girlfriend played by Michelle Williams who peeks her head in and out of this plot in one of the most thankless roles we've ever seen her take on—because who cares about Williams' ability to be way more than a token love interest.
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Sons tend not to forget such things.) Among all the boldface names mentioned for the job, Christie is one of the few who has not demurred with a comment similar to "I really like the job I have" (which is another way of saying, "There's no way I'll accept that thankless job").
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They described working conditions under Pruitt, who announced his resignation Thursday, as equally tense and thankless and blamed the EPA chief for creating a culture of fear that often pitted employees against one another and left some workers --many under the age of 30 -- feeling as if they couldn't say no the administrator.
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" A scandal erupted in Moscow political circles, and Putin's human-rights ombudswoman—whose position is a thankless, largely impotent one, but with a relatively high profile—said that Kadyrov's "statements are not only pointless but also harmful, because they render a disservice to the President and cast a shadow on the country.
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" Vox's Matt Yglesias wrote: "Hillary Clinton has often stood accused of pandering or shaping policy proposals for political purposes, but her proposals for improving regulation of the financial system show her doing exactly the opposite — tackling the issue of mega-bank risk in a thoughtful way that is likely to prove politically thankless.
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So I'll close by saying that their "son" has maybe the most thankless task of the Cold War — pose as a high school student so that your "parents" are eventually invited over for dinner — and if FX is moved to produce a spinoff on his journey, I am very, very here for it.
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They described working conditions under Pruitt, who announced his resignation Thursday, as equally tense and thankless and blamed the EPA chief for creating a culture of fear that often pitted employees against one another and left some workers — many under the age of 2628 — feeling as if they couldn't say no to the administrator.
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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has released a list of "accomplishments," such as they are, which serves to remind us of the many thankless items taking up the bulk of the agency's time (and requiring a great deal of hard work by its many employees), but also of the malign agenda that has unfolded continuously since the election.
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But as anyone who's actually witnessed what goes into the creation of those glossy final images can tell you, it's actually a thankless job with long hours, no breaks, and apparently, some questionably hygienic practices, as model Anthea Page demonstrated on her Instagram account when a makeup artist forgot to clean her brushes, giving her a staph infection.
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Jordan Boatman plays an empathetic social worker tasked with observing a newly discharged Anna's interactions with her children; Christopher (Dylan Baker) is your typical ruthless executive; the children, who favor binge-watching the Sopranos, offer much-needed comic reprieves, while Madeline Weinstein has the most thankless role as Clara, the 24-year-old catalyst of the whole tragedy.
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But he ultimately decided not to run, in part because Cameron has refused to actually take the steps necessary to cause the UK to leave the EU. That means that Johnson, had he won, would've had the thankless task of actually leaving, which he knows could have major disastrous economic consequences for which he'd then be blamed.
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Peter Debruge, Variety: As far as Ferrell and Reilly are concerned, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's unstumpable sleuth and the thankless sidekick who recorded his every exploit are not just a great crime-solving duo but one of the great bromances of English literature — and therefore a natural target for the two actors' ongoing exploration of dysfunctional friendships.
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"Two years ago, when we started making our really ugly prototypes and we'd be meeting with these companies, they'd be like, 'that's really good,' and a pat on the head," he explains when asked why the company didn't simply attempt to sell its proprietary tech to a Sony or Apple rather than undertaking the rather thankless job of launching a hardware startup.
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Thankless, that is, right up until that moment when the company you've been loyal to for 20 years sells for $4 billion and you, a former software company manager, are able to cash out for untold millions and walk away as a legend: a fearless pioneer, an artist, a living myth who just wants to spend more time with his kids.
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Descending from the Jupiter-like heights that have marked the early months of his presidency (an attempt to reignite French pride through the Gaullist majesty of his office), Macron was frank and chatty as he outlined his ideas to cajole Trump from self-defeating rage toward productive reason — a thankless task in which the French upstart should have the world's full backing.
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Before tonight I'd wondered why Bill Irwin, the astonishing performer who, between the video for Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry, Be Happy" and the role of Mr. Noodle on the "Sesame Street" segment "Elmo's World," had all but single-handedlly preserved a vaudevillian form of physical comedy, had signed on for the relatively thankless role of the neurotic neurologist Cary Loudermilk.
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Rather than fixing the problem or even just allowing the IRS to continue the process to fix its own rules, they have chosen to spend years and millions of dollars on fruitless investigations, and then to persecute those who have done nothing wrong other than run an agency that does a difficult and thankless job — collecting the taxes America needs to provide vital government services.
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It's fitting that these Mojave Desert dwellers would play Melbourne's most celebrated enclave for sweaty mosh pits and stage diving just days after the Nielsen report was published; Homme and Co. had a new full-length on the way with the Mark Ronson-produced Villains—but that evening they also had the thankless task of comforting thousands of scared shitless rock fans in their favorite dump.
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The premise again creates toothy roles for the film's stars -- James McAvoy, with his multiple personalities, including the superhuman Beast; Samuel L. Jackson, as the evil genius Mr. Glass; and Bruce Willis, as intrepid, reluctant hero David Dunn -- along with a more thankless one for Sarah Paulson as the psychiatrist convinced she can cure them of the shared delusion that they possess extraordinary powers.
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The notion must cross Tillerson's mind that Trump's inaccurate tweet is needless provocation of a friend; that simultaneously infuriating Asian and European allies may not be smart; and that his task will be a thankless one as Trump's White House coterie hatches seat-of-the-pants policy and leaves his already restive State Department to deal with weighty issues in Luxembourg and the Solomon Islands.
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Mr. Petrosino immigrated to the United States with his father in 1873 when he was 13; managed to apprentice himself to Clubber Williams, the notoriously tough cop from Manhattan's tenderloin district; graduated from the White Wings corps of street sweepers to the police force; became the first Italian-American detective sergeant; and insinuated himself into the thankless job of eradicating the Black Hand, the gang of kidnappers and extortionists who preyed on vulnerable Italian immigrants.
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It's a taxonomy of fictional magical critters, several of which crop up here.) Newt wants to attend his magical suitcase full of CGI creatures in peace, but a chance encounter with non-magical wannabe baker Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler, in comedy-relief-witness mode) and anti-magic fanatic Mary Lou Barebone (Samantha Morton, in possibly her most simplistic, thankless role ever) sets some of his charges free, and he has to recapture them all, pokémon-style.
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"I think we all remember from our childhood, everybody wanted to be president of the US. I mean, it was a way to influence the world and put yourself in the limelight and to be challenged, but the way this election is turning out, we wondered if we were perhaps giving kids the idea that being president is a little bit of a thankless job," said Christine French Cully, editor-in-chief of Highlights for Children Inc.
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Collecting now has the reputation of an opportunistic pastime, a way of accumulating trophies, and living with difficult art both is and isn't a remedy for this — to maintain a conceptually rigorous or hard-to-install art work is on one level a thankless labor of love, and on another a kind of particularly elite humblebrag: Is there a more outlandish statement of privilege than lamenting how the water in your Jeff Koons installation is growing mold?
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There's an all-timer of a Thankless Girlfriend role for Bryce Dallas Howard, who pops up occasionally to provide Wells comfort or to tell him he's losing touch with Who He Is, and a series of red herring supporting characters who exist mostly to run into the room with important plot developments and then disappear McConaughey himself is fine, one supposes, he is mostly in disguise under his baldness and his flab, doing the best he can to provide some verve to this dull character.
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In this case, it was the impeachment of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, a pledge now being brushed to the side by Democrats as (to quote Democratic District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes NortonEleanor Holmes NortonHouse Democrat offers bill to let students with pot conviction retain federal aid Majority of Americans opposes DC statehood: poll DC statehood hearing rescheduled to make room for Mueller testimony MORE) "a thankless, useless waste of energy" amid assurances that this would be a new Democratic Party, including opposition to Pelosi.
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