Let's say your sex life is indeed seriously, crushingly boring.
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But, crushingly, the medium has its fair share of dickheads too.
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" The Mountain's answer is skull-crushingly simple: "Don't buy other stuff.
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Strength can be pretty and delicate while also being crushingly powerful.
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But it's a slog even on its own crushingly puerile terms.
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That felt crushingly overwhelming because I always had something to do.
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Cersei remains delightfully evil, and Jamie is crushingly conflicted about it.
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And do you want this fun to be ear-crushingly loud?
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Earlier this year his new political party won crushingly in local elections.
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When has a big-budget HBO drama ever been so crushingly sweet?
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Kids just say the darndest most soul-crushingly terrifying things, don't they?
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It is a crushingly lonely moment but Scorsese isn't soliciting our pity.
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They almost always feature an "I voted" sticker and are often crushingly corny.
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So Relatable, but also make it crushingly intimate: "I'll make time for you,"
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The interior of the car is tacky and badly designed and crushingly mundane.
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The result is a program that is not just superhuman, but crushingly so.
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Segregated schools for black students were often decrepit, poorly staffed and crushingly overcrowded.
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Harvey will also inflict billions in economic damage, most crushingly on uninsured homeowners.
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I find our quiet neighborhood of handsome houses And shady streets crushingly uneventful.
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It's exactly, crushingly, the same as it was when your baby was still alive.
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She has done so, most crushingly of all, while coming across as perfectly pleasant.
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Or it would be, but driving here still manages to be famously, crushingly awful.
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Crushingly, Ariel absolutely could've closed from moment one and happens to be a moron.
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But the clouds kept moving implacably forward, and, crushingly, the bar began to fade.
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Now, let's look at the optics of another crushingly disappointing part of the tax bill.
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This, it becomes suddenly and crushingly clear, is what football looks like to non-believers.
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I pull out the record, and crushingly, the vinyl inside does not match the sleeve.
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Crushingly dominant is the best way to describe Mercedes's start to this Formula One season.
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Despite being crushingly sad, the manner of Dumbledore's death is another stroke of Rowling brilliance.
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In pressuring Ukraine like this, Trump is leaving the country with a crushingly difficult choice.
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The immigration court is crushingly backlogged — a problem that has gotten much worse under Trump.
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Still deploying the crushingly minimal riffs of Godflesh, Broadrick yawps like a man who's ingested antifreeze.
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He could win this group more crushingly than any presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
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Afterward, she said, she shut down and felt crushingly isolated, unable to connect even with friends.
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But "Mortal Engines" took a crushingly low $7.5 million across 3,103 theatersat the domestic box office.
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As I look at the lives of people like Sitara and Pappu, every day seems crushingly hard.
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And trade-weighted averages can mislead, because goods with crushingly high tariffs will naturally have lower weights.
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Hilarious, witty, heartbreaking, and soul-crushingly real are terms that normally don't go together without a fight.
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"Loving you isn't enough / You'll still be deep in the ground when it's done," Allison sings, crushingly.
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But it's an interesting gesture for exactly that reason, something small, but powerful—slow, but never crushingly so.
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Marion, her crushingly forthright mother, never shies away from an argument, contrasting with Larry, her depressed, gentle father.
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It's crushingly short, but hey — they were never going to give too much away at this early stage.
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Jobs are precarious; paychecks are low and stagnant; and healthcare coverage is either crushingly expensive or simply unaffordable.
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There's a reason my calendar reminder doesn't say, "Reoccurring Money Talk With Husband," which sounds so crushingly serious.
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Following her child's death, the ads in her social media feed looked "exactly, crushingly, the same," she wrote.
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They thought their frighteningly adorable googly eyes and crushingly soft manes meant they could live life above the law.
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Stocks valuations were painfully low, interest rates crushingly high and monetary policy tight then, the virtual opposite of today.
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The United States' new regulations do none of the above and will be crushingly expensive for states to implement.
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In Banner Saga 3, I lost one such character and instantly saw half of the campaign become crushingly difficult.
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LCD prices were tumbling fast, and the yen's exchange rate had shot up, making exporting from Japan crushingly expensive.
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In today's fractious union the symbolism counts for something, even if the declaration the leaders will issue is crushingly bland.
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Then, in 21990, Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas endured a crushingly defeat, receiving just 21996 percent of the vote.
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What I don't want in return is updates qua upselling written in nagging millennialese cluttering up my crushingly overnotified life.
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Carson is crushingly aware that theirs is a false economy, reliant upon a flailing music industry, but he'll take it.
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He is bright and pleasant — and, increasingly, searingly frank — in person, but in his early interviews, he was crushingly shy.
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They want to begin addressing opioid-gouged public funds, they say, and to end litigation, which itself is crushingly expensive.
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As beloved as Disney Pixar movies are, their most heartwarming scenes often follow crushingly depressing deaths and scenes of utter dread.
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BRITAIN'S ELECTION on December 12th was the most unpredictable in years—yet in the end the result was crushingly one-sided.
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It is a perfect illustration of a well-recognised point: many things that are easy for humans are crushingly difficult for computers.
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Sure, there are misses here and there, and they are soul-crushingly disappointing because you always want that perfect Peter Luger's experience.
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In an age of so much political and social uncertainty, one thing's for sure: the future of music will be crushingly loud.
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The thing about the atomic bomb is that the more of you there are to fight it, the more crushingly you lose.
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Mercury is an airless world similar to the Moon and Venus suffers from the opposite problem, a crushingly thick (and oxygen-free) atmosphere.
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Tyler decides to punish Ryan for not helping Hannah on the stand by, essentially, catfishing him — particularly painful, considering Ryan is crushingly lonely.
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The setting is the middle of the 19th century, but the lessons — about prosperity, virility, patriotism and cycles of violence — are crushingly contemporary.
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It's also the fact that, to so many women, stories of groups of boys sexually preying on girls feel so terribly, crushingly familiar.
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But unlike almost everything else in rotation on FM pop radio through December, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is, deep down, crushingly sad.
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Liz Harris's music is both crushingly beautiful and impeccably arranged, and every rogue nature sound and subtle hiss of tape static serves a purpose.
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But after the financial crisis, LCD prices tumbled and the value of the yen shot up, making it crushingly expensive to export from Japan.
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In places this darkly brooding score juxtaposes strands of 12-tone writing with crushingly poignant tonality, which raised hackles among modernist composers at the time.
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Success, as Success Studies understands it, is boring—it's neutered and neutral and crushingly narcissistic, isolated and wary and terrified, but mostly no fun at all.
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LONDON — Remember how crushingly sad you were when Ygritte died, and her and Jon Snow's all-too-brief romance was brought to a blunt, painful end?
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In person, he is earnest, cautious and meticulous in his words to the point that he pauses, sometimes for crushingly long stretches, to construct responses thoughtfully.
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So here I am now — excited about my future, but crushingly anxious and guilty about what I have to tell my boss and countless other employees.
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Ludwig may not have been actually mad, of course, merely crushingly profligate; efforts to declare him insane may have been clumsy ministerial efforts to staunch his spending.
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While U.S. and German yields have risen off recent lows, Germany's first zero-coupon bond sale reinforces the picture of crushingly low returns on mainstream fixed income.
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Or you could just point out the obvious: It's a crushingly long season, and maybe guys in their mid-40s just inevitably run out of gas eventually.
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Danger rating: High—if you're a North Korean with an anti-authoritarian streak, or the idea of people living crushingly soulless lives makes you feel in danger.
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Haiti was already a crushingly poor country with massive corruption; after the quake, billions of dollars in aid were sent, but the expected rebuilding did not materialize.
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Brazil might have won five World Cups, but this Brazil team — this Brazil generation — has not won any, and it will be painfully, crushingly aware of it.
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There were beautiful and crushingly sad Facebook posts in Stacee's honor, the kind you see after every tragedy, except these were written by people I knew well.
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It comes later, every option exhausted, when addiction to the doctor's "one more thing we could try to get you pregnant" has left you bone-crushingly drained.
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The influx of recruited tech talent to the Bay Area has resulted in a crushingly competitive housing market race, leaving many resorting to renting rather than buying.
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If you've ever taken a selfie and thought, "this is fine, but I'd really love to look more soul crushingly terrible," then there's a selfie app for you.
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The last few years have left Tarantino looking less like the usual bad boy of cinephilia and more like a crushingly familiar type of standard-issue shitty guy.
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Bale has his moments of genius like Saturday&aposs goal, but is increasingly a super-sub, a player who falls short of the crushingly consistent brilliance of Ronaldo.
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Don't ask me why, but ever since I watched that crushingly sad episode of Futurama with Fry's dog Seymour, I've had a real soft spot for emotional cartoons.
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Everyone loves a tiny, chaotic neutral, nonverbal goober upon which to pour their affections — all the better if the baby meme's behavior careens between crushingly sweet and harmlessly violent.
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That Mimi, at the end, returns to the garret where she first fell for Rodolfo, hoping to find reconciliation and die in his arms, is crushingly sad, of course.
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The daily SMS became a forcing function that deepened my experience of the walk, made me more aware of how painful or joyful or crushingly boring the days were.
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Washington (CNN)Protesting what he described as crushingly negative coverage of President Donald Trump's inauguration, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said crowd size comparisons damaged the new administration's morale.
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I thought this was yet another death, but no — I managed to swim downstream to relative safety, before almost immediately finding myself in an even more crushingly difficult boss fight.
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As much as we enjoy jokes about mechanical engineering and complex building projects, we can't help but feel this is even more by way of crushingly benign April Fools' content.
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It argued that the presidency is the most difficult and serious and crushingly lonely position in the world, and that it takes someone of exceptional moral character to occupy it.
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The death scenes in the Harry Potter books — of which there are many — were still as crushingly sad on re-reading as they had been when I was a teenager.
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Yes, this is all the work of a #brand, but the company (or, likely, its advertising agency) deserves some credit for how crushingly on-the-nose the commercials really are.
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Fans of Issa Rae's Insecure have been left wondering about the fates of best friends Issa and Molly and their crushingly cute but infuriating love interests for almost a year.
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So, what I suppose I'm saying is that some songs have a nuclear half-life so enormous, so heart-crushingly heavy, so unfathomably titanic that we can never outlive them.
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They want you to demonstrate that there is some insight in your study and/or your experience and/or your flat-out genius that is just bloody-well bone-crushingly smart.
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Sated after sopping up all of the ad dollars drifting around the wreckage of a soul-crushingly monetized social web, Facebook realizes it's probably time to chart a different path forward.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, the leader of a eurosceptic faction of May's Conservative Party, hinted he could scale back opposition to May's deal which has already been crushingly rejected twice by lawmakers.
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Crow, Maren Morris and Stevie Nicks harmonize to tell some guy that, actually, he's not going to be crushingly missed; Joe Walsh and Vince Gill provide guitars that slide and crunch.
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How it afforded viewers a window into a sincere and sometimes crushingly concrete immigrant experience for older women who often feel lost, or even unloved, once their kids have matured into adulthood.
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It may have been eight years since the last Toy Story film came out, but frankly eight years isn't long enough to forget just how crushingly poignant the third chapter's conclusion was.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads To learn how crushingly the new Arcade Fire album has disappointed fans, critics, and providers of online content, one need only glance at their Metacritic page.
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But while the musicianship captures their raw and often crushingly loud live show, it's frontperson Adrienne Lenker's vulnerable voice and incisively personal writing that prove why the band garnered so much hype.
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But in reality, refugee resettlement is crushingly exclusive, reserved only for those who successfully navigate a vast, inherently distrustful bureaucracy and pass some of the most stringent background checks in the world.
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It was bad enough when he won the leadership crushingly last September after scraping around for last-minute nominations from MPs, some of whom backed him just to make the contest more lively.
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Both actors are in there 30s, but use the not-quite-magic of clothes and hairstyling to portray their 13-year-old alter egos, who are as crushingly awkward as they are endearing.
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Given how crushingly Prime Minister Theresa May's proposed Brexit agreement was defeated by lawmakers, there is little chance her Plan B — to be presented in coming days — will get away with just minor amendments.
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Per Buzzfeed, the app saves you the emotional turmoil of dreaming of a McFlurry, only to be crushingly disappointed by an employee pointing to the "Out of Order" sign above their soft-serve machine.
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It's weird to hear Bakken using the language of player empowerment—"It's also about the freedom to build the type of guardian you want"—when the effect of that decision feels so crushingly limiting.
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Mr Trump was crushingly defeated in the recent Wisconsin and Wyoming primaries by Ted Cruz, a Texas senator, whereas Mrs Clinton lost seven of the eight last contests to Bernie Sanders, her only rival.
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But, perhaps more crushingly pertinent for him, that he isn't as suited to rapping as he is at wearing bootcut suit trousers and screaming one-liners while taking a hammer to a wooden table.
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Washington (CNN)On Tuesday night, British Prime Minister Theresa May's plan to usher her country out of the European Union -- a move forced by the Brexit vote of 2016 -- was crushingly rejected in Parliament.
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Even before voters began punishing establishment favorites in primaries and caucuses, the yawning gulf between the superrich and the rest of us might have seemed crushingly obvious, but not perhaps to many traditional conservatives.
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The book is often crushingly grim, but Dikötter also relates many stories of resilience and subterfuge, of ordinary people who paid lip service to "empty slogans" and tried to get on with their lives.
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"The residents of the South Bronx are largely motivated by bread and butter concerns, a struggle to survive in the most expensive city in the world in a city that's becoming crushingly unaffordable," he said.
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I think that I have never seen loss—which is so private and inward and inherently isolating, and which we all suffer and survive in different ways—so clearly or so crushingly in a game.
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On it, he moves away from soul-crushingly intimate songs (though "If We Were Vampires" threatens to make even the happiest thing—love—into its own kind of death sentence) and eyes the bigger picture.
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Alas, the new "Les Misérables" really is new, and crushingly Crowe-free, and although a quotation from Victor Hugo is tacked onto the end, the story bears only the faintest relation to his enormous novel.
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But the evidence is all too crushingly plain that the violent, convulsive new world order taking shape in this moment of climate reckoning is entirely the handiwork of a fatal set of preventable human system failures.
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There's a deep continuity between the soul-crushingly muted vibe of Christine's office and law school and the fancy hotel rooms where Chelsea takes over, and throughout it all, she's unsettlingly opaque, displaying little or no emotion.
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British property markets along with other business hotspots such as New York and Singapore have seen a huge influx of cash from investors - domestic and foreign - seeking to escape crushingly low or even negative yields on bond markets.
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The track itself is both crushingly bleak and totally weightless, evocative both of the peaceful void of the world beyond our atmosphere and the impending doom that's kinda lingering at the edge of just about everything these days.
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One group of people will bear the burden of significantly, perhaps crushingly, heavier insurance premiums: those with expensive, chronic conditions who buy their insurance on the individual market but who make too much money to qualify for subsidies.
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There is a scene in the finale that is so crushingly good, as Penelope works through her fear and frustration in a wide-ranging monologue that, according to my colleague Todd VanDerWerff, Machado completed in a single unbeatable take.
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That the year's biggest Ryan Gosling movie could be a *crushingly* fatalistic sci-fi cinematography spectacle, SFX-gasm, and sequel is a testament to the fact that even if our imaginations hurt right now, our hearts can still soar.
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With just over nine weeks till Britain is due to leave the EU, there is still no deal on the divorce terms and future relations after parliament last week crushingly defeated the plan that Prime Minister Theresa May had negotiated.
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Louis-Dreyfus is crushingly good when portraying Selina's simultaneous rage and grief, most especially when she stands up to give the eulogy at her mother's funeral and laments how unfair it is that her presidency mother is gone for good.
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"You Can't Save Me, So Stop Fucking Trying" and "Desideratum" are definitely straightforward, but they still boast enough great beats and engaging paces to be immediately likable, even if they aren't as nuanced or crushingly impactful as the band's most memorable tracks.
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"Aronofsky makes this world (or his version of it) exciting partly by pulling back the velvet curtains and showing you the sacrifices and crushingly hard work that goes into creating beautiful dances," Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The New York Times.
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After her narrow victory in a parliamentary confidence vote late Wednesday, May had said she would be prepared to engage with opposition party leaders in a "constructive" spirit, to find a way forward after her Brexit proposals were crushingly rejected earlier in the week.
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Yondu's storyline fares far better, with Rooker adding some unexpected depth to the mercenary as he struggles to redeem himself for past misdeeds, but there's only so much the ancillary players can do when the heart of the movie is so painfully, soul-crushingly inert.
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If there's one thing The Americans has made clear over the years — and makes clear again and again in "The Summit" — it's that spying is crushingly lonely work, a dark, laborious task that requires you to eventually push people away because the job requires it.
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But now that the remaster is out, its gameplay sequences cleaned up and looking sharper than ever (although the older FMV clips remain curiously fuzzy, and restricted to a small screen on your screen, 32X DOOM style), its shortcomings in a contemporary context are crushingly obvious.
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"Love Theme" plays beautifully during the course of this astonishing set piece, which, brilliantly, forces the player to tap buttons constantly during its five-minute run-time; a thumb and wrist-crushingly torturous experience which places the player's physical and mental running in direct parallel with that of Snake's.
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Obviously the last few books were crushingly sad in a number of places — we still can't think about Dobby without getting a lump in our throat, and don't even get us started on Dumbledore — and from the sounds of it this new story isn't going to be any cheerier.
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If there's one singular truth to be gleaned from watching Tobor the Great and Wall-E simultaneously projected onto the same movie screen, it's that there's truly nothing more endearing and soul-crushingly terrifying than watching a bunch of robots go about and do tasks normally relegated to humans.
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I could go from periods of suicidal ideation, self harm, and crushingly low moods that often rendered me physically unable to complete day-to-day tasks, to periods of overwhelming productivity and creativity, functioning on little to no sleep and feeling invincible and justified in any action, no matter how destructive.
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And so Larry flew to New Orleans and watched the team he had cheered for since childhood through crushingly bad seasons in the 70s and 0003s receive the Vince Lombardi Trophy, which is named for the messianic coach that led the Pack to victory in the first two Super Bowls.
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Zac's songs from this period, like "Split" and "Cut Throat" and "Black Blood" captured a world that felt crushingly mundane and extraordinarily alienating in his terse, finely wrought way; his music is an integral part of my youth, as it is for countless others, and for that I will always be unbelievably grateful.
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We just wanted to emulate these guys who were so special to us and pull from all of these forward-thinking, third-wave New York City acts that made crazy hardcore that's metallic and super groovy and definitely sounds very 90s but at the same time it sounds crushingly intense and very New York.
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There's something abstracted in writing all that, both because I didn't know Fernandez in any way beyond feeling a half-vexed awe at the way he shredded the baseball team I care about and because, in watching the Marlins play three games against the New York Mets this week, the raw and un-abstracted reality of his loss was so unmistakable and crushingly visible.
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Recently, in an attempt to unwind and de-stress, I switched off my phone after a relaxing day at the beach, and returned home only to see my feeds full of more crushingly depressing news about another killing, in Milwaukee, and the fatal shooting of an imam and his assistant in Queens that was attributed to a wave of anti-Muslim hostility being stoked across the country.
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I took a bunch of photos of those people on the beach—I looked up and they had that pose and it was so contradictory: It was a titty and butt beach and we were drinking daiquiris and it was just boobs and butts and the best day ever because it was a day off, and it was like, 'Why are these people so crushingly despondent and destroyed by sadness?
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Netflix has picked up the exclusive rights to show Hayao Miyazaki's epic library of movies, in every territory world-wide except North America and Japan (sorry, guys — if you're in the U.S. you can still watch them on HBO Max, though.) For those of us Netflix subscribers who are based internationally, that's a whopping 21 new movies – from the ridiculously beautiful, Oscar-winning Spirited Away to the crushingly sad Grave of the Fireflies.
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Ironically, the tiny self-selected group at the Game of Thrones convention — gathered there to celebrate a crushingly cynical series of books in which thousands of people die in hundreds of ways, and love is such a joke that intimacy is the only thing the genius at the helm never got around to learning how to write even close to properly — modeled a much better and kinder idea of society than the one we actually live in.
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Not being able to feel crushingly terrible made him feel terrible, but even this second order of terribleness had, to his inquisitive mind, a compelling textural quality that made him wish only to experience more of it: his mind found any sensation or state induced by it fascinating, which was an indirect way of admitting that his mind found itself fascinating, which was to say that he, Bobby Tallis, found every facet of his own disgustingly mundane self and life fascinating.
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I remember the last level took me about four hours, and I was down to 50 percent life and no shields when I entered a huge combat arena, the lights came down, and a menacing Imperial general's voice boomed-out, "It's been a long time since I've challenged a man…" The huge, silhouetted shape of his enhanced body armor appeared in a doorway, and the final fight of the game began, with no option but to replay the entire crushingly-difficult level again if I lost.
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