Matthews' book details the absurd marathon event, which began during a gruelingly hot St. Louis summer afternoon.
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Sport is movement, often gruelingly so, and it incorporates repetition, competition (with oneself or others) and performance.
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This is the against-all-odds, gruelingly hard-fought victory we never expected to be able to celebrate.
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It blossoms over a series of gruelingly awkward conversations filled with stutters and whatevers, as you anxiously show each other your scars.
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Rocky Balboa will bag a title fight, train gruelingly (probably in the outdoors, definitely to lame music), and take a beating in the ring.
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When business is gruelingly hard it's easy to take your eyes off the goals — to get caught up in the stress of the day and forget that a bigger picture is calling us.
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For "The Bumpy Ride," kate spade new york tapped two of our favorites: Anna Faris and Rosie Perez, to take on the common horrors one faces when flying coach — waiting until cruising altitude for a stiff drink, a passive aggressive flight attendant (portrayed by actor and comedian John Early), needing to use the restroom while a giant soft-drink trolley blocks the aisle, and the "slight inconvenience" of being held at the runway gate after a gruelingly long-haul flight.
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The prisoners slept in a seaside area, being the only place in the building where the sky wasn't visible. There was no heating available and they were at the mercy of the elements even resorting to eating animal organs, according to one of the prisoners. The project was the same every day. Work, gruelingly and endlessly and then sleep.
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Manager Micky Adams' first signing of the season was winger Kaid Mohamed, who stepped up to League One from League Two play-off semi-finalists Cheltenham Town; he was seen as a replacement for departing left-winger Ashley Vincent. Also joining the club were Preston North End defender Chris Robertson, Southend United forward Gavin Tomlin, and Sheffield Wednesday central midfielder Chris Lines. Liam Dickinson joined the Vale on trial for the second summer in a row, and again left without a contract after failing to prove his fitness. Adams, known for his gruelingly tough pre-season workouts, did not disappoint and left his players exhausted following their trip to Ireland.
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Fingleton, who played against the Bodyline attack in 1932–33, said "I was watching a man almost the equal of Larwood [the Bodyline spearhead] in pace ... Truly a great bowler". O'Reilly wrote Lindwall's "magnificent performance must go down as one of the greatest bowling efforts in Anglo-Australian Tests. He had two gruelingly long sessions in the innings and overcame each so well that he set the seal on his well-earned reputation as one of the best bowlers ever."O'Reilly, p. 150. Hutton was the only batsman to resist the Lindwall-led attack, scoring 30 in 124 minutes and surviving 147 deliveries. The next most resilient display was from Yardley, who scored seven runs in 31 minutes of resistance, facing 33 balls. Miller and Johnston took 2/5 and 2/20 respectively, and Australia's pace trio removed all the batsmen without Bradman having to call upon Ring's leg spin. In contrast, Australia batted with apparent ease, as the overcast skies cleared and sun came out. The debutant Watkins sent down four overs for 19 runs with his bruised shoulder and did not bowl again.
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Ghostbusters received strongly negative reviews, holding aggregate review scores of 30 (PlayStation 4) and 32 (Xbox One) on Metacritic; the site acknowledged it as being the worst-reviewed game of 2016, noting that unlike the film (which "somewhat delivered what it promised"), the game "asks that you fork over even more cash for what reviewers described as a humorless slog.". Polygons Justin McElroy gave Ghostbusters a score of 2 out of 10, arguing that it was "the most gruelingly insipid dual-stick shooter" he had ever reviewed, lacking variety insofar that it was a "perfect prison of monotony from which no fun could ever escape." He criticized the game's poor characterization and humor—joking that it made a commercial for Ghostbusters cereal "look like a 4K Blu-ray transfer of the 1984 film by comparison", and concluded that the game was a "deplorable, cynical bit of licensed drivel that wouldn't be worth the $50 asking price if the instruction manual were printed on a $50 bill." GameSpot was similarly critical, noting a lack of variety in gameplay, environments, and enemy design, but did praise the soundtrack for "[evoking] the proper nostalgia".
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