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"ho-hum" Definitions
  1. used to show that you are bored

262 Sentences With "ho hum"

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But Bloomberg is betting that desperate times call for ho-hum measures, albeit ho-hum measures executed at gargantuan scale.
The camera above the screen, by the way, is still a ho-hum 720p sensor that produces ho-hum image quality.
In it, as in ho hum porn, actors have sex.
Ho hum hot dog eating competitions suddenly seem so passé.
Bottom sixth: Leadoff double followed by three straight outs. Ho-hum.
This ho-hum performance also rears its head in the camera.
Then came an relatively ho-hum split decision over Dan Henderson.
But, as we all know, nothing is ho-hum these days.
Just another ho-hum Christmas Eve for a North Carolina couple.
Cover girl Kim Kardashian's on the cover of another magazine. Ho-hum.
This is about the same price as two evenings of ho-hum firelogs.
In Iowa, Democrats offered any number of reasons for the ho-hum showing.
Even the trojan's payload turns out to be ho-hum: garden variety adware.
So what investors got was a quarterly earnings report that was ho-hum.
At first glance, it seemed like any other ho-hum skippable hotel restaurant.
There's nothing about any of these models that is ho-hum or ordinary.
In the typical company, it is a mid-level ho-hum job. Why?
The market is ho-hum ... so what if the Fed raises 25 basis points.
This all sounds like a story of ho-hum technocratic reactions to economic circumstances.
Landing on Thanksgiving, it's not terrible, just more ho-hum than ho, ho, ho.
Popular interest in the space program faded fast; the astounding had become ho-hum.
Slipping into a pair is the easiest way to update a ho-hum outfit.
He then executes a dicey, 290-foot two-putt for another par. Ho-hum.
Ho, hum, another day, another SpaceX rocket landing on a drone ship in the ocean.
But certain extras can help shift a ho-hum road trip into the next gear.
New technology is creating some excitement in the formerly ho-hum world of dental care.
Because the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are definitely the ho-hum iPhones this year.
"I'll tell you, I think it's a lot of ho-hum," he said in the video.
"But I don't want to come in and keep things ho-hum," she told her parents.
Some of today's favorites had to survive a critical drubbing, or a ho-hum box office.
Cons: Critics point out a lack of variety with slot machines and a ho-hum buffet.
These ho-hum productions are not entirely without pleasure, but they misunderstand the appeal of their star.
"Most will say ho-hum, that doesn't begin to describe the offensiveness of the conduct," he said.
He argued in his goodbye note that "ho-hum reporting" about military conflicts essentially condones those conflicts.
When my ho-hum assessment was scrapped, I was so relieved I didn't even save a copy.
Ho hum, I feel lonely and felt like posting on here because I love the Dylan community.
He's got a ho-hum player efficiency rating of 26.6 that isn't even among his top eight seasons.
Fair Game Ho-hum, another week, another multimillion-dollar settlement between regulators and a behemoth bank acting badly.
So far, it's been a ho-hum beginning, with shares opening at $42, down from the IPO price.
Compared to other David Edwards ideas, the scent-spewing Cyrano is positively concrete — even a bit ho-hum.
Are things as good as everyone seems to think, or as ho-hum as the actual data show?
You know dude's got hops ... so maybe the INSANE dunk is ho-hum everyday action for you (crazy).
Another ho-hum day for the best team in the N.F.C. and the champion of the N.F.C. East.
Presidential administrations often seek to screen films, but this otherwise ho-hum request carried special significance this week.
Today in California, where my family lives, drugs are the new boxed wine, ho-hum even in suburbia.
Skip the ho-hum office-friendly suits, though in favor of more interesting textures like velvet or brocade.
"It's not gonna be a ho-hum lineup of the typical politicians," Trump's daughter Ivanka said last month.
Amazon has a ho-hum offering limited to Prime subscribers, and Apple's iCloud Photo Library is underpowered and expensive.
The prints and colors are so free-flowing you'll forget about the ho-hum, plain black fleeces of yore.
But it's actually a little ho-hum, and that kind of does a disservice to Toby's very real struggle.
See the chart below for details: On the IPO front, the just-ended quarter was also fairly ho-hum.
Industrial stocks may seem ho-hum to some, but Trian CIO Ed Garden said Tuesday he loves General Electric.
But, they've become a ho-hum staple that's elicited the same d'orsay, ankle ribbon wrap design season-after-season.
"For most travelers, marijuana is a ho-hum issue," said Cathy Ritter, the director of the Colorado Tourism Office.
While the Cavs were building their early leads, their stars displayed the kind of ho-hum brilliance we expect.
The result isn't another ho-hum documentary likeness in which all the elements neatly and often flatteringly stack up.
They are the ho-hum, everyday experiences of virtually every woman I know, and such stories rarely get told.
Minaudieres are fine, but after years as the go-to occasion bag, they can seem a little ho-hum.
Ho-hum exterior styling could be redeemed if Hyundai had knocked it out of the park on the inside.
I'm sure it does and I don't think that Smooth Display is solely to blame for the ho-hum battery.
So Google is doing that releasing features for more of the ho-hum security, compliance, monitoring features this market needs.
It seems a sign of recognition at Netflix that there's a lot of ho-hum stuff on offer there too.
Microdosing LSD sounds like a trip, but its secret weapon is that it is, all said, a ho-hum experience.
I assumed a local news station was just using a gimmicky new technique to jazz up a ho-hum story.
Just a regular old tattoo is pretty ho-hum at this point, its edginess sanded and shellacked by mainstream assimilation.
Ask the flooded residents of Baton Rouge what it is like to be ignored because titanic floods are ho-hum.
Ronaldo opened his account early on a penalty that came to Portugal in the fourth minute: Sure, sure, ho-hum.
"In a normal world, a meeting of this nature would be ho-hum," said Herbst, a former US ambassador to Ukraine.
Ho-hum. A new series gives us Emily Dickinson, millennial angst and sexual fluidity — and some scholars are here for it.
Sure, there are a ton of apps that'll turn your ho-hum snapshot into an Insta-worthy, filtered-to-perfection masterpiece.
In a summer of ho-hum blockbusters, this one at least mostly delivers, especially for those weaned on "Star Trek" lore.
X-Men to the ho-hum Battle of the Atom and Apocalypse Wars, the X-Men's stories have varied in quality.
Verdict: Forging a certificate is markedly less impressive than forging an artwork — even one of Lee's ho-hum early point paintings.
The less dramatic outcome would be that Bitcoin's increases become more ho-hum, and public interest wanes when the headlines stop blaring.
"It's not going to be a ho-hum lineup of the typical politicians," daughter Ivanka Trump said more than a week ago.
Add those together and you're left with a pretty rough, ho-hum user experience with ugly textured backgrounds and no real polish.
It's not unusual to feel ho-hum about becoming a millionaire, said Kevin Meehan, a certified financial planner based in Itasca, Illinois.
But I recently drove a midsize GMC pickup with a sticker of $44,000 and a ho-hum, four-banger Cadillac for $69,000.
The emails show office gossip — catty, sometimes crude back-and-forth by party operatives, and a bias for one candidate. Ho-hum.
Six weeks into the season, there are still two undefeated teams in the N.F.L. One is the New England Patriots. Ho-hum.
Is it me, or do demons who fling furniture, shatter glass and make walls bleed seem kind of ho-hum these days?
After a fairly ho-hum first hour, the field burst into open conflict, with some candidates ganging up on Iowa frontrunner Buttigieg.
So in some ways, the ho-hum operating-system upgrade could help Apple sell more iPhones this fall, provided there are hardware improvements.
Today's matchup between the two London teams ended in a draw, but the goals that got them there were anything but ho-hum.
This work is pure comedy, satirizing the ho-hum, clichéd confession of a wallflower by rendering her with outrageous glittering hot pink nipples.
I find it shocking that we essentially condone continued American bumbling in the Middle East and now Africa through our ho-hum reporting.
Slow trading across the investment-banking industry may doom the $90 billion firm to another ho-hum set of quarterly results next week.
Typically, an official presidential portrait unveiling at National Portrait Gallery might be a ho-hum affair, even with the traditional pomp and circumstance.
You can also upgrade your Thanksgiving road trip with certain extras can help shift a ho-hum road trip into the next gear.
The village had its own ferry to the pristine Ho-Hum Beach on Fire Island that was reserved for residents and their guests.
His worst transgressions fall into pretty ho-hum corporate misdeed categories like union-busting, the occasional copyright violation, defamation claims, and smoking weed.
"If you win, they are going to make it like, ho hum," Trump told the crowd at the Monday night rally for Bevin.
Perhaps the most notable sign of life during this ho-hum January weekend came courtesy of Tuesday's announcement of this year's Oscar nominees.
It's on Apple to find a way to re-ignite its core growth engine with the rest of its divisions being relatively ho-hum.
Given Heidi Klum's ho-hum costume this year, we're thinking it may be time for her to hand over her crown as Halloween Queen.
Ho hum, Salesforce announced its quarterly earnings yesterday and the news was all good once again with revenue up 25 percent to $2.68 billion.
It's a nice jump and a reprieve from a pretty ho-hum month for Fitbit, which has seen a slight bump in its performance.
Instead, the movie merely delivers a dim dose of ho-hum horror -- one whose demise, by all rights, can be attributed to natural causes.
So after all of this, might there be something of a ho-hum quality to hearing the work of the slightly older NYO-USA?
Karolina Kowalkiewicz took ho-hum decisions over Randa Markos and Heather Jo Clark before edging a split decision victory against fan favorite, Rose Namajunas.
In all likelihood, they have similarly ho-hum sex on occasion, and you likely have better sex than they do some of the time.
In much of North America, bologna is one of the least respected of processed meats, seen as fit only for a ho-hum sandwich.
Rotten Tomatoes' brainier, less popular rival Metacritic culls from a smaller number of reviews and seems to assign a lot more ho-hum scores.
Hard to tell whose form was more on point—Wickham's or Berahino's—but for some relatively ho-hum teams, this was an exciting one.
Pass on any ho-hum, predictable types, keeping your dance card wide open for a lifelong playmate who wants to see the world with you.
It was an objectively ho-hum device, which didn't do enough to justify its myriad inconveniences, including laggy performance, terrible battery life, and confusing controls.
Curious to learn more, David, Judy and a team from the Queensland Museum returned to the area — nicknamed the Ho-Hum site — later that year.
Don't skip the cards and the roses, even if you're delivering a bouquet of beautiful black stems (they exist!) instead of the ho-hum reds.
Another ho-hum, 7-5 finish; another offseason in which Penn State fans have to put their faith in "potential," as opposed to celebrating results.
A promotion to Single-A figured to be a ho-hum stepping stone, a prerequisite to tick off on his inexorable climb to the majors.
Months after his initial deadline had passed, as he was viewing a ho-hum TriBeCa penthouse, he saw, from its terrace, another penthouse blocks away.
In a mostly ho-hum night at the Emmys, Glenn Weiss delivered a moment that left most of those in attendance slack-jawed and applauding.
That's pretty ho-hum stuff, unless that counterpart is Russian President Vladimir Putin, who won what everyone considers to be a less-than-democratic race.
"It's not gonna be a ho-hum lineup of the typical politicians," the real estate mogul's daughter, Ivanka, said in a radio interview last month.
As a solver, I'm not certain that I would like struggling with a Saturday New York Times puzzle, only to uncover swaths of ho-hum.
Can't we combine utility and beauty for all as opposed to the ho-hum oversize glass towers that are a homage to nothing but glitz?
No so super Yes, this year's Super Bowl ads seemed to offer a heavy dose of controversy, but mostly everyone thought they were just ho-hum.
The unhinged tweets just say they're coming from Twitter for iPhone, while the ho-hum, down to business tweets show the location they were sent from.
When the big-company shares he was famed for investing in started to offer ho-hum returns, he turned to taking stakes in small unlisted companies.
Nobody who has watched TV before really thought Huck was going to die, so I was kind of expecting this week to be pretty ho-hum.
Despite Berlin's reputation for its uninhibited night life and progressive counterculture, traditionally the city's fine dining restaurants have fit within the same ho-hum, predictable mold.
Yesterday, it starred in a new video that may seem, well, a bit ho-hum at first glance—at least compared to the company's other recent reveals.
Investors often hear the drumbeat for picking appropriate investments and minimizing costs, but it can drown out the ho-hum maintenance aspect of having a portfolio: rebalancing.
It has plenty of ho-hum trap balanced out by occasional deviations into dancehall and throwback street rap, though there's no graspable logic to the project's structure.
Only the fish and chips were ho-hum; the beer-battered crust encasing the cod was soggy, and so were the fries that came with the fillet.
It has become a truism that America is aging, and like most truisms, it becomes accepted as a ho-hum reality that is too common to address.
Shannon M. Kent had a position that in the bureaucratic lingo of the military might sound like a ho-hum desk job: Navy chief cryptologic technician (interpretive).
So I pick up this morning's paper in the Business Day section of "The New York Times," and the headline is: A Ho-Hum Change for Goldman.
Except he decided to step up this ho-hum triple-double per game situation for the Playoffs, and went for a fucking triple-double in the first half.
The stickers on the cards will also change the core function of the cards, turning a ho-hum contraption into something very dangerous as the game moves forward.
Holding a copy of new record that I helped write was way more satisfying than playing another show to a ho-hum crowd of jaded Bay Area elitists.
The initial reading showed GDP grew by 1.9 percent to end the year — another ho-hum showing the likes of which Trump said would end during his administration.
"A ho-hum outcome this month confirms that the small business sector is not performing with any strength," NFIB Chief Economist William C. Dunkelberg said in a statement.
But the most fun and kinetic turn comes from Steven McRae as Skimbleshanks, who turns a fairly ho-hum Thomas the Tank Engine number into a tap extravaganza.
Not only are they pretty easy to learn, just a few tweaks to lighting and color grading can turn your photos from ho-hum to seriously wow-worthy.
But in today's politics, bombing is considered presidential and ignoring science and defunding family planning, when populations are exploding and droughts expanding, are ho-hum back-page news.
Watch as Santa and his elves assemble gifts at the North Pole and use a special machine to determine who is nice, merry, jolly, ho-hum or naughty.
If the presentation feels like a bit of an experiment, the content -- adapted from an Australian show -- is too familiar to be much more than ho-ho-hum.
The show's structure introduces a minor wrinkle to the network's meat-and-potatoes procedural formula, offering one serialized plot thread surrounded by a lot of more ho-hum elements.
The occasional clever nods to the source material, however, don't compensate for the ungainly writing, ho-hum characters and uneven performances, albeit under an assortment of fabulously garish outfits.
The stuff of minute-by-minute existence, the ho-hum moments that make up daily life, are usually left to novelists and the earliest, greatest period of the Onion.
But from a color perspective, a fall wedding is the perfect time to look past the ho-hum nude and pink lipsticks to play with sultry, rich berry shades.
If only the chef had adjusted the ratio of pasta to meat sauce in a dish of sticky cocoa-infused pappardelle tossed with a ho-hum wild boar ragù.
It made for ho-hum, generic answers like the aforementioned getting along quips and Lauren and Cameron telling us how nice it is to be married to one another.
I'm definitely interested in it, although it seems like the reviews have kind of been ho-hum, so I'm not ... I don't mind having to plug in a phone.
The ho-hum flu is so underestimated that more than 50 percent of Americans, for example, fail to take the vaccine we do have to protect us against it.
It all adds up to "a ho-hum horror movie given a mild boost by its credible performances," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review for The New York Times.
From the Academy Awards to the Met Gala to the Tonys, Billy Porter shakes up the ho-hum pre-show and wins the night — before the awards even begin.
For, more and more, what was once edgy, out there, or unthinkable, from S&M to routine mass shootings, has become the stuff of sitcoms and ho-hum headlines.
The musical kicks off on the wrong foot almost immediately, with a ho-hum opening number that seems to throw a lot at the wall just to see what sticks.
The ho-hum feel can't be blamed on novelist Dan Brown, since no one could prod him to "raise the stakes," to use a popular note in Hollywood pitch meetings.
Reviewing M.I.A.'s AIM, he wrote that "Nothing has made me happier in this horrendous moment[...] Fuck you if you think it's "lightweight" or "confusing" or "aimless" or "ho-hum.
The catalyst for this gushing is NJPW's Dominion show on June 11, where Okada wrestled in another (ho hum, yet another) candidate for best match in history with Kenny Omega.
For Michigan State, the result could be chalked up as another ho-hum victory — even with the momentary lapse that had it nearly equal with Rutgers for nearly 20 minutes.
Ho-hum until it takes a turn toward the fascinatingly weird, the movie is a welcome declaration of artistic independence for Burton, who often strains against aesthetic and industrial restrictions.
Had Mr. Trump not won the election, Hollywood could have continued to ignore Mr. Woolery and Mr. Young, 59, as two more pontificating cranks: Ho-hum, and back to NPR.
In "The Prodigy," a ho-hum horror movie given a mild boost by its credible performances, a small boy named Miles (Jackson Robert Scott) begins to exhibit disturbingly supernormal intelligence.
There was an irony here: By the 1930s, the once-revolutionary style had come to be, by the standards of international art fashion, old hat, ho-hum, its origins half-forgotten.
Wall Street wants a ho-hum jobs report, strong enough to show the economy isn't toppling over but not strong enough to pressure the Fed to raise rates any time soon.
Rather, the earnings results reinforce the mundane daily challenges of how banks are struggling to increase profit and revenue in a ho-hum economy and in an era of tighter regulation.
"Anytime you lose to a team, you don't want it to happen again," said Curry, who collected 34 points and made 7 3-pointers on a ho-hum night for him.
The house (you can take a tour of the real one in San Jose, Calif.) never feels like a single space, as ho-hum apparitions appear and disappear without a trace.
In a year populated mostly by ho-hum new network offerings, "Evil" stands out more in spite of its concept than because of it, thanks to the strength of its execution.
Entrepreneurs, engineers and venture investors are shying away from the consumer internet, and turning more to the seemingly ho-hum realm of supplying software to business, or so-called enterprise technology.
Mr. Sanders bridles at boring technocratic toil, and once impatiently asked an aide, "What's the news for today?" during a discussion of ho-hum committee business, one former staff member recalled.
Mr. Sanders bridles at boring technocratic toil, and once impatiently asked an aide, "What's the news for today?" during a discussion of ho-hum committee business, one former staff member recalled.
However ho-hum you're feeling with your go-to hairstyle, there's a jeweled hair piece to tastefully jazz it up — and all you have to do is put a pin on it.
While Johnson compiled a ho-hum two-under-par 70 at Pebble Beach, Potter flirted with a sub-60 round at nearby Monterey Peninsula, one of three courses used for the event.
"A kind of ho-hum status quo economy might not have been good enough for Clinton against a normal Republican candidate," Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said.
Nintendo is fully awake again after years of drowsy sales and ho-hum releases, in part thanks to the excitement over the successful launches for the Nintendo Switch and the NES Classic.
We've already seen this happen with Sony's ho-hum efforts to reboot the Spider-Man series — leading to two competent but essentially repetitive Amazing Spider-Man films that struggled to justify themselves.
While the average approval rating for CEO Sewing is 73%, the average company rating is about 3.5 stars out of five, and the ranking of senior leadership is a ho-hum 3.2.
His fall 2017 line was a ho-hum grouping of shearling motorcycle jackets, leather Perfectos, baggy pants, artfully untucked shirts, jean jackets bearing the LV logo and ball caps with exaggerated bills.
I recently sent some ho-hum quality iPhone vacation photos to a handful of companies that I'd never used before and had them enlarged to various sizes and printed on different surfaces.
After four years of rather ho-hum predecessors, the new phone presents the biggest change in overall design since 216, and it will set the tone for future generations of the device.
After four years of rather ho-hum predecessors, the new phone presents the biggest change in overall design since 2007, and it will set the tone for future generations of the device.
This might sound ho-hum to people who live in the US and Canada, where many parents-to-be track every little aspect of their pregnancy through an array of gadgets and apps.
And while the Giants and the Cardinals will beat each other up in a four-game series this weekend, the Mets will face the lowly Minnesota Twins, followed by more ho-hum opponents.
It sounds like just the thing to shake her out of her "conventional" existence in Paris (because time-traveling to the 18th century and hanging out with royalty is so ho-hum, apparently).
After a fairly ho-hum Sunday of football, Detroit Lions wide receiver Golden Tate decided to pack all of the action he possibly could into one play in overtime against the Minnesota Vikings.
That'll go a long way toward turning a ho-hum 213-5 start into a scorching 12-2 push featuring wins over the Blazers (twice), the Jazz, the Warriors, the Celtics, and the Thunder.
In case you missed it, it's not too late to vote to shake up the executive branch — surely the No.1 priority of every red-blooded American in these mostly ho-hum, sleepy times.
"Normally, of course, extradition with the Canadians is sort of routine, ho-hum, the person is brought back to the United States, then you go through the criminal process in the U.S.," said DeBusk.
There'd be a lot of cross-city travel, but most of it is pretty ho-hum too, because you basically want to keep your head down and do your best not to be noticed.
The Good Wife expanded critical perception of CBS beyond just a repository of ho-hum crime dramas, and The Good Fight more or less put the CBS All Access streaming platform on the map.
When poinsettias seem a little ho-hum and candy-striped dish towels feel too tacky, a glossy gift set packed with beauty goodies is an easy way to bring a smile to her face.
She also pointed to in-store augmented and virtual reality displays, concierge-style services and made-to-order merchandise as ways that retailers can elevate ho-hum shopping to the level of an experience.
"I don't want the story to be 'This was a ho-hum year'," Jeremy Mathis, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist who has led the agency's Arctic Research Program, said in an interview.
Investors will be watching for how the policy makers view the economy, particularly with tax reform imminent, and as it's become clear that the economy is growing beyond the ho-hum post-recession rate.
Mixed reviews and ho-hum box office in the U.S. meant it took a couple of years (thanks to DVD sales and holiday TV airings) before the film acquired modern rom-com classic status.
I was at the bar the other day, trying to watch a game, when a large Londoner moved in front of me and tried to extoll the virtues of the perennially ho-hum England.
Thirty-one years ago this week, on July 4, 1985, the New York Mets faced the Atlanta Braves in what was supposed to be a ho-hum game followed by your standard fireworks display.
They are armed with State Education Department cellphones and are often charged with answering ho-hum questions with which parents do not want to bother the principal: What color socks does the uniform require?
And now after giving what we thought was already the greatest gift possible, Potempa's sharing even more of her (easy!) secrets for low-key waves that'll breathe new lift into ho-hum holiday party hair.
Jonathan Taylor churned out 132 rushing yards, the defense held the Wolverines' offense to 212 total yards, and Alex Hornibrook was a ho-hum nine of 241.5 for 22026 yards, a touchdown, and a pick.
This method avoids penalising players who happened to face a field with lots of extreme performances (either good or bad), or rewarding those who matched up against rivals who all turned in ho-hum showings.
The NGO Doctors Without Borders even came out against that provision of the deal, and having those humanitarian do-gooders come out against your ho-hum trade deal is not a good look, PR-wise.
We'll get a clearer picture on things when Disney reports quarterly results in a few days, but for now, it seems as if the once-promising blowout summer has turned into a ho-hum affair.
Mr. Christie gave a ho-hum response when questioned by reporters Saturday about going to the beachside retreat at such a politically sensitive time, as a budget standoff forced the shutdown of the state government.
During the call with Mashable, he said he and his husband were mindblown that sexual fluidity is so much more "ho hum" now — he credits pop culture for normalizing it through ads, entertainment, and celebrity relationships.
We like to think we fall somewhere in the middle — the camp that toes the line between wanting to build out a solid wardrobe, but with items that are more modern than the ho-hum classics.
Los Angeles (CNN)CBS and Fox are ringing in the year with more ho-hum than ho-ho-ho, introducing a pair of series, "Ransom" and "The Mick," that feel like tired retreads of programs past.
First, at quarterback: senior Bart Houston did not appear to be a significant step up from Joel Stave, who led a ho-hum Wisconsin offense last season, and in the first three games, that rang true.
Beating the No. 1 team in the country might be a bit ho-hum for your Kentuckys, Dukes, UCLAs, and so forth, but for those of us in basketball's big, soft middle it's...what's the word?
Technically, I'd fleshed out a similar grid years ago; I was ho-hum on my execution even then, but resolved to post it to my old puzzle website regardless, and lay any lingering thoughts to rest.
The weekend's other new wide-release film, "Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates," an R-rated comedy that cost 20th Century Fox $33 million to make, arrived to a ho-hum $16.6 million in estimated ticket sales.
Though he had never set foot in Tulsa, he was coaxed to a flat, ho-hum stretch of land overlooking the Arkansas River by the billionaire philanthropist George B. Kaiser, who was bent on building a park.
And maybe parents are amused, and more open to saying yes, when seeing their children doing the ho-hum, middle-aged task of calling a meeting to show off a deck, as working stiffs like to say.
Josh McCown, who has played for seven other N.F.L. teams, is favored to emerge from a ho-hum competition that includes Bryce Petty, a fourth-round pick in 2015, and Christian Hackenberg, a second-rounder last year.
Those expecting a ho-hum Grammys night were surely jolted awake on Sunday when, just minutes into the show, Michelle Obama walked onto the stage hand-in-hand with Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett Smith and Jennifer Lopez.
Flanked by his running mate, former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, Johnson spoke to the fans spread across the lawn in Boston Common with characteristic ho-hum-ness, the sun creating long shadows under the dome of the bandstand.
Yet none of America's seven recent mass shootings, whether as individual events or a collective, swift increase in brutalism, attracted much media attention, likely due to their ho-hum nature in a nation disturbingly inured to such violence.
It would seem that for someone like Kim Kardashian West — queen of selfies, breaker of Internets, mother of two — sharing a nearly nude selfie with millions of followers on social media is a pretty ho-hum weekday activity.
But it's as much a story of a potential consolidation of fabless semiconductor giants as it is one of the performances of two companies — one that has done quite well, and one that has been emphatically ho-hum.
Lauren Castillo's perfect illustrations — warm, deftly composed, with the sensual allure of woodcuts (she seems to have combined foam monoprints with ink and digital work) — are so captivating they might on their own overcome a ho-hum story.
After yet another ho-hum 8-1 victory to move the Chicago Cubs to 8-1 on the year, manager Joe Maddon was asked whether he feels like he's just pushing a bunch of buttons that happen to work.
What at first seemed like ho-hum political brinkmanship is looking more like a prolonged, punishing shutdown, more akin to the 2100-day funding lapse in 230 and 1996 than the blink-and-miss-it shutdowns earlier this year.
Frank Capra's classic tear-jerker about Christmas Eve as a dark night of the soul has been a Yuletide standard-bearer for so long that it's easy to forget what a ho-hum reception it got at the time.
A chilled crowd at the Estadio Atletico had hoped to see something special from the 2016 Rio Games champion but cold conditions and a ho-hum field delivered an ordinary result with Thompson crossing unchallenged in a time of 67.683 seconds.
The knockout almost expunged the memory of the high number of ho-hum fights that went the distance on this card and certainly justified talk of Garbrandt as a contender as he picks up the first meaningful name on his record.
Patrons at the popular New York City gay bar Pieces got a big surprise on Friday night when ho-hum music superstar Adele and one of her besties, Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, dropped by for some drinks and some fun.
At one point MacGyver calls making a gizmo "DIY or die," the most inventive line in a ho-hum revival that, despite its title character's signature skills, clearly has no intention of reinventing the wheel -- or much of anything else.
And on Tuesday, after a somewhat ho-hum speech in favor of Clinton, he did his best to give the crowd what it so clearly wanted (which he declined to do on The New Republic's Primary Concerns podcast with Brian Beutler).
There is no way to tell in advance which interview will be ho-hum and which will produce an illuminating quote or anecdote, or which facts will turn out to be central to the story and which are interesting but extraneous.
Trump has so radically readjusted our expectations for presidential candidates that a debate in which a major candidate threatens democratic traditions, blatantly insults his opponent, and is asked about a history of sexual assault could seem, at times, ho-hum.
The S&P 500, with more than 94% of its companies reporting the most-recent quarterly earnings, is on track for a ho-hum 7373% increase in quarterly profits from a year earlier, according to data compiled by Refinitiv as of Wednesday afternoon.
Or, to use a simile more appropriate to this author, it was like the moment you realize you're having fun at a party you previously thought was ho-hum, the drink, the conversation, the attractiveness of the company all kicking in at once.
Chopin's refinement of the pedal would be a ho-hum technical achievement, something for pianists to gab about at gatherings, if it weren't combined with an unparalleled understanding of harmony — he is always ravishing us with his chord changes, even the simplest ones.
NUMBER OF THE DAY $51,000 The amount of the ransom hackers demand from Atlanta to release the city government's computer system AND FINALLY ... And now for the weather ... Weather reports can be ho-hum, until a kindergartner -- who knows his sight words!
Gary's craving for "multiplicity" and his refusal to accept its impossibility — to be stuck with our ho-hum human condition, that is — make him a literary figure worth revisiting, one of those striving, endlessly self-inventing individuals who streaked across the 20th century.
When the residents went in to see patients, they were engaged enough, but decidedly ho-hum about the specialty, voicing a preference for more vibrant fields like oncology, with its experimental new drugs, and cardiology, which combines good pay with the excitement of new technologies.
Because Major League Soccer (MLS), the first division, maintains a closed-league structure—de rigueur for American team sports, but unique in the context of global football—all the Cosmos have to look forward to is another year of mediocre opposition and ho-hum revenues.
Gone are the days of dry hands and cracked cuticles; we've entered the season of strappy sandals and ample opportunities for drippy ice-cream cone Instagrams — and the last thing you want is your ho-hum nail polish to ruin your otherwise-trendy aesthetic.
On the surface, August's streaming slate looks a little ho-hum, with only a few high-profile original series (Marvel's The Defenders, another Wet Hot American Summer entry) and some prestige-movie-season stragglers (Hell or High Water, Jackie) to catch a skimming eye.
"This could be one of those moments that's quite dangerous and we'll look back and wonder why we treated it as ho-hum at a time when we could have stopped it," said Robert Kagan, a scholar at the Brookings Institution known for hawkish internationalism.
He did Jimi Manuwa in with an uppercut and knee along the fence seemingly out of nowhere in what had been a ho-hum fight, and Daniel Cormier quickly found out the dangers of hanging out in a long clinch with a much taller man.
Now Republicans face a bruising primary battle between Kris Kobach, a former secretary of state and ally of [Trump] who lost the governor's race a year ago, and a host of ho-hum establishment candidates who have not inspired confidence in the Republican leadership.
But Apple's ho-hum demo during the event — a tabletop game, similar to what we've seen from other AR projects like Google's Tango — still left a lot of us wondering how iOS developers would use AR once they got their hands on the tool that powers it.
And yet nothing else I played this year so reliably put a smile on my face — or made me as impatient for fresh episodes of downloadable content to arrive, even if they mostly just offered a ho-hum new set of tasks to check off my list.
For politicians, the ho-hum nature of the nuclear option seems to stem from the fact that since then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid changed the filibuster rules on federal judges in 2013, there's been an expectation that this day -- in regards the Supreme Court -- would come.
Directed by Pete Docter, the film follows the different emotions inside a young girl's mind, and was seen as a creative return to form for the studio, which has been dabbling a little too much in ho-hum sequels and tepid originals over the past few years.
"Beauty Generation was named Hong Kong Horse of the Year last season on the strength of three Group 1 victories, but the wins were a bit ho-hum as opposed to eye-catching," said Bill Nader, the Hong Kong Jockey Club's director of racing business and operations.
Wimbledon doesn&apost use tiebreakers in the fifth set for men, or third set for women, so there&aposs nothing to prevent a match from going on and on and on — and that&aposs precisely what Isner and Anderson did, often thanks to one ho-hum hold after another.
There are few in-house alterations that can make life easier for Butler, but he hardly ever plays with Nemanja Bjelica (who, ho-hum, is the most accurate three-point shooter in the league right now); in the 52 minutes they've shared the floor Minnesota has obliterated everything.
The Carpetbagger Until Robert De Niro took the stage on Tuesday to introduce Meryl Streep at the National Board of Review awards gala, the night had largely been a ho-hum affair, lacking the drama of other events during film awards season, like the Golden Globes on Sunday.
Conceived by Adam Kuchler, with a script by Peter Bufano, the production also offers far from ho-hum acrobatic and aerial acts, as well as a routine in which a clown explores a cardboard box with an enthusiasm even greater than a child's: He's pretending to be a cat.
While it was a wider-than-expected loss, it looks like a pretty ho-hum result for the company as all eyes look toward the later part of the year when the Model 3 production is in full swing — and whether Tesla will be able to get enough cars rolling out.
Now that you've persevered through several episodes of Leaky Brain Bernard staggering around in a daze, the endless build-up of Maeve's quest for her daughter, and Dolores as an indomitable but ho-hum ice queen, you have finally been given an episode with some real blood in its veins.
Over the course of eight and a half hours, the definition of "ho-hum" would be expanded to include flooded outfields, Keith Hernandez hitting for the cycle, and a relief pitcher named Rick Lamar Camp extending the game to a 19th inning with what would be his only MLB home run.
But to confront your story's limitations head-on and admit it's better suited to 20 pages than 220 pages can be a painful reckoning — though, as I tell my students, not nearly as painful as trying to spread a ho-hum back story into a thin layer across a whole book.
We had begun the day by navigating a series of Class III rapids, then catching a handful of brown trout and rainbow trout that would have been considered whoppers on most other rivers, but here were just the latest in a series of ho-hum catches measuring 24 inches or more.
Lionsgate had hoped that "Now You See Me 2" would officially end a box-office cold streak, but the studio instead had to make do with a ho-hum $23 million in opening-weekend ticket sales for its magic-themed sequel, or 22 percent less than initial results for the original film.
Fuck you if you think it's "lightweight" or "confusing" or "aimless" or "ho-hum"—it's the hard-earned proof of the happiness she's achieved after years of fretting about the asinine shaming of 2010's excellent Maya for the crime of following Kala, which was only the greatest album of the century.
If the idea that Morocco once butted up against New York strikes you as just ho-hum; if your mind doesn't boggle that 10,000 species of dinosaurs still exist; and if you're not impressed that Tyrannosaurus rex was strong enough to bite through a car — then this book is not for you.
When I get home alone at night and the house is dark and the cat has done a fucking number on the litter box, there's no male version of Bridget Jones or Carrie Bradshaw to make me think Oh well, ho hum, at least I have my friends and a box of Whitman's Sampler.
The story is about a father, played by Louis, trying to stop his underaged daughter from sleeping with a much older man, evidently a more ho-hum taboo in an era when evangelical Republican defenders of Roy Moore can liken alleged sexual contact with a 14-year-old to the chaste parentage of the Son of Man.
The Wednesday night meeting, the second act of partisan rapprochement that started with a bipartisan budget deal last week, began with a ho-hum 30-minute discussion on trade that included Gary D. Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, whose rocky relationship with Mr. Trump has stabilized at least temporarily, and the commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, aides said.
That's certainly better than the shrinkage that occurred during the recession, but nowhere close to the typical yearly gains of 3-plus percent or more that undergirded American prosperity for decades after World War II. Such ho-hum performance has become both an emblem of and explanation for the anxiety that smears the economic outlook like a bathtub ring.
"  While the convention roster is far from settled, Trump's daughter Ivanka told a Virginia radio station that the roster won't be a "ho-hum lineup of the typical politicians" and will include "our great politicians, but also great American businessmen and women and leaders cross industry and leaders across really all the sectors, from athletes to coaches and everything in between.
For hundreds of years, the presidential portrait was a ho-hum affair, failing to generate headlines or even a worthy anecdote, with the possible exception of Theodore Roosevelt, who was so displeased by Théobald Chartran's 20143 portrait — he thought it made him look too coy — that he first hid it in a less-trafficked corner of the White House before finally burning it.
But for anyone who has been tracking the qualification process—the devastating losses to Costa Rica and Mexico, the ho-hum ties, and the occasional burst of promise against Honduras—and for anyone building a macro picture—the gaping holes in their back line, the inconsistency of Michael Bradley, the poorly-timed phase-out of veterans—it's clear that the U.S. simply hasn't earned their place among the top 32 teams in the World.
But as much of New York's once-industrial waterfront has been transformed into pricey residential housing, the family that owns most of the land along the basin sees it as rich in possibilities for development, and it is proposing to replace its ho-hum warehouses with a $3 billion project, including an apartment tower that would rise about 700 feet, or 2000 stories, making it taller than any existing building not only in Queens, but in all of the boroughs outside Manhattan.

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