"For them, given what they had lived through, working a mind-numbing job—it is as mind-numbing in 2600 as it was in 2180—the benefits, they were good enough," Loomis said.
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The hypocrisy of California's liberal dominated legislature is mind numbing.
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PARIS — It is a mind-numbing 3,18063 pages long and growing.
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Being home secretary demands relentless attention to often mind-numbing detail.
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He must not take golf's eternally unjust, mind-numbing fickleness personally.
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To some, Microsoft Excel is more than just a mind-numbing spreadsheet.
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Bits Digital encryption, with its mind-numbing mathematics, is hard to do.
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It's hard to tell amid the mind-numbing dialogue and incoherent plotting.
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It's a mind numbing challenge that we have to step up to.
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She says it "spares them an additional year of mind-numbing exam preparation".
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There is no time for the dialogue to decline into mind-numbing tedium.
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Instead of sorting through this mind-numbing stuff unassisted, Catch holds your hand.
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Every Monday, I look forward to two mind-numbing hours of reality television.
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Nothing says summer like baseball, very cold drinks and mind-numbing brain freeze.
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He has built a high-level career out of this mind-numbing preparation.
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Democratic candidate John Kerry gave perhaps the most mind numbing example of this.
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And mind-numbing performance is a big part of what I've been after here.
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The level of commentary that can be found on the site is mind-numbing.
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It's displacing the tedious task of looking for problems, which is really mind-numbing.
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Don't be distracted by mind-numbing details on soyabean imports and car joint-ventures.
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Final assembly is mind-numbing and requires no skills other than having working fingers.
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The mind-numbing pain in my abdomen is intense and, sadly, oh-so-familiar.
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To be standing here by virtue of his and Lonnie's request, it's mind-numbing.
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You're probably thinking this myriad collection of purchase options is mind-numbing and perplexing.
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And doctors and nurses contend with insurers' growing demands for mind-numbing electronic documentation.
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" REPUBLICAN SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM ON THURSDAY'S ARGUMENTS: "It became mind-numbing after a while.
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The fluorescent lights, the mind-numbing Muzak and the miles of aisles disorient me.
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After three mind-numbing months of failed sleep, Rani, Liam's blessed Tamil nanny, intervened.
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By contrast, the live broadcast in China was politically correct to a mind-numbing extreme.
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Microsoft uses mind-numbing terms like "componentized" and a "distributed document model" to describe Fluid.
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Plus, I was saved from the mind-numbing labor pain which accompanies a normal delivery.
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And amid all the billing statements, spreadsheets and mind-numbing prospectuses, some big stories emerged.
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I found most classes at school mind-numbing, the school system overly uniform and repressive.
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"It became mind-numbing after a while," said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina.
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We are living in the era of depressing, capitalist content packaged as mind-numbing uplift.
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A mind-numbing trend in 2015 was the ever-increasing "no phones on the dancefloor" culture.
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It's expensive, isolating, and mind-numbing to be a contestant on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette.
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We should use robots to remove the mind-numbing tasks of batch reading routine X-rays.
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Sesame Street is now just like every other mind-numbing children's show you have to watch.
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It's mind-numbing that certain NYC politicians, including AOC, are gloating over Amazon's decision to bail.
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"The number of conversations we've had about what sexy means today is mind-numbing," Cox said.
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Central bankers are famous for burying important information in mind-numbing jargon and infinitely careful language.
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Brace yourself for a blog about one of the more mind-numbing lawsuits in recent memory.
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Fusion focussed on open-source research—mind-numbing dives into the fine print of public records.
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Remember all the tedious, mind-numbing work you're avoiding by contracting out your iced coffee production?
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"The number of companies and industries lining up looking for largess is mind numbing," he said.
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It was the third or fourth mind-numbing episode of Springer, and the room had grown interested.
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She recalled the rest of that day as a series of "horrific, surreal, and mind-numbing" moments.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi responded to the incident on Twitter, calling it a "mind-numbing" tragedy.
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He said it was some of the most mind-numbing yet physically demanding work he's ever done.
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Like watching the show itself, filming it can be arduous and more than a little mind-numbing.
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Sometimes the meals are as low-stakes as a snack between sessions at a mind-numbing conference.
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And sure, it would be a lousy, boring, mind-numbing three weeks, despite Netflix and Amazon deliveries.
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But the real mind-numbing factor is how all of these photographs fall prey to cookie-cutter Instagrammization.
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The album explores themes such as gentrification, technology, alienation, revolution and the mind-numbing effects of prescription drugs.
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And although the tea did cure the mind-numbing headaches immediately, it left a lot to be desired.
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Who has more mind-numbing feats expected of him, and seems to have survived so unfazed by them?
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Around China, the view is that Sichuan food consists mainly of three flavors: hot, hotter and mind-numbing.
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Simply competing in a regular-season game after two years in mind-numbing rehabilitation purgatory was an accomplishment.
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Agricultural and industrial jobs were often mind-numbing; few people were looking to be fulfilled by paid labor.
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They arrested 33,29 criminal aliens who committed all kinds of crimes that would be mind-numbing to your audience.
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For example, Hereditary combined satanism with the mind-numbing, but familiar grief following the death of a family member.
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When I walk through the doors my head is ringing with regret, mind-numbing repetition, and expectations of browbeating.
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Despite the mind-numbing bore of jogging such a short length in endless loops, Wheatcroft had to memorize it.
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Because data is the key to anything you're doing with AI. That will be the new mind-numbing jobs.
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Usually, we're stuck paying very expensive expedited shipping prices or fighting mind-numbing traffic when last minute holiday shopping.
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The shared frustration, daily victories and Disney theatrics passed our time, but the mind-numbing boredom was never ending.
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Now it's a program bumper title and just a gimmick to hold your attention through the mind numbing commercials.
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And although chikungunya rarely is, it's referred to as the "breaking bone" disease because of the mind-numbing pain.
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Besides the stress of navigating security lines, layovers and delays, there's the mind-numbing time spent in the air.
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News of sectarian violence reaches us daily from across the globe, bringing us unimaginably horrific and mind-numbing images.
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All that information must be collected, collated and copied for every board member to review, a mind-numbing task.
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The actual number of Venezuelan exiles is hard to come by, but even the lowest estimates are mind numbing.
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But life as a Marine on the ship, with its claustrophobic berthing areas and dull routine, was mind-numbing.
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I have to set aside a lovely afternoon to do it, and it's really mind-numbing to do it.
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On a scale of easy to mind-numbing, the book's designer says the puzzles range from moderate to very difficult.
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I was at work, writing a press release for a drum n bass night, which was pretty mind numbing work.
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Before the blowout two-on-one date, though, this episode provides one of the more mind-numbing dates in history.
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But scientists aren't drawn to their profession because they love mind-numbing repetition and enormous spreadsheets full of meaningless numbers.
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These are the same kind of mind-numbing twists and turns that made USA Network's breakout hacker drama a hit.
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I understand the frightful, mind-numbing, hair-raising disbelief that can descend when one realizes that this is indeed plausible.
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Sitting is terrible for your health, and mind-numbing when you're staring at the same wall or window all day.
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" Ms. Williams, who has often observed him, described the process as "mind-numbing and thrilling in kind of equal measure.
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The accusations against Harvey Weinstein are dreadful, but the pace at which similar stories have emerged recently is mind-numbing.
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Ms. Schembri said she was initially drawn to the painstaking — what some might call the mind-numbing — labor of investigation.
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"I find it absolutely mind-numbing that a company like Apple can sit on $2100 billion of cash," Yusko said.
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As of two years ago, he was working mind-numbing 70-hour weeks at Smoothie King for $7.25 an hour.
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Most recently, House Judiciary Committee hearings were held to discuss the mind-numbing accusations made by conservative vloggers Diamond and Silk.
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After what has been literally years of mind-numbing speculation, next week the presidential primaries will begin at the Iowa caucuses.
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Its veracity may be suspect, but this 2008 YouTube classic has more than 12.7 million views, despite a mind-numbing soundtrack.
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That being said, the commercials that are shown on your network are the most god awful, horrible, worthless, mind numbing. patronizing.
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Most get little choice in what they do, causing well-qualified people to complain of mind-numbing work with no prospects.
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How many people find their situation so mind-numbing, awful and generally hopeless that they give up on their own life?
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We are about to enter the epoch of Salmonella-laced barbecues, family holidays, and mind-numbing arguments about Andy Murray's nationality.
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This one may look familiar to those who have been following Dudolf, a Hungarian illustrator known for mind-numbing puzzle work.
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ACTION AND ADVENTURE My guilty pleasure television program is "Live PD." It's mind-numbing and perfect for a solo Sunday evening.
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It sleepwalked through its group, with single-goal victories against Australia and Peru, and a mind-numbing goalless draw with Denmark.
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Those mind-numbing exercises in high school—factoring polynomials, conjugating verbs, memorizing the periodic table—were possibly the opposite: mind-sensitizing.
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In most cases, you will be swamped with an unending stream of data, eye-watering policy details, and mind-numbing meetings.
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The reviews matched the sentiment, referring to it as a "mind-numbing, crash-bang misfire" with a "lame" concept and execution.
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The proofreader marks up documents that make little sense, a matter so mind-numbing that he falls asleep at his desk.
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"Some of these issues, like reparations for gay people, these are mind numbing things for voters in Youngstown, Ohio," said Bennett.
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"I designed the logo in the first client meeting and spent two years having to make mind-numbing presentations," she recalled.
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E. MARIANNE GABEL DELAWARE, OHIO To the Editor: The obsession with Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is mind-numbing.
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The huge annual trade show, running Wednesday through Saturday in Las Vegas, will have its usual mind-numbing number of new gadgets.
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Celebrities love to remind us that being famous comes with hard work: grueling shooting schedules, energy-draining performances, mind-numbing press junkets.
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Has your job changed so that you're now doing a lot of things you find mind-numbing or off your career path?
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On land or in the air, modern technology consistently handles mundane, repetitious, complex, or mind-numbing tasks so we don't have to.
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He was eager to return to Betsy Head and the sanctuary of the field and the mind-numbing repetition of football drills.
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Anyone who has endured the mind-numbing drone of rote learning can understand the allure of VR and AR as educational tools.
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This is followed by a mind-numbing three hours in a dance club, including an explicit oral-sex scene in a bathroom.
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All four members of the family are out of work—they get by on small, mind-numbing jobs like folding pizza boxes.
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Either way, chances are you are so ready for that particular brand of mind-numbing entertainment that comes with watching a Christmas movie.
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After graduating from Harvard Law, he landed a job spending 16 hours a day reviewing contract language, a process he called mind-numbing.
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In February Activision Blizzard, a Californian firm, snaffled up King Digital (maker of Candy Crush and other mind-numbing games) for $5.9 billion.
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The site frequently crashed, failed to load episodes, got stuck looping episodes over and over, and played ads with a mind-numbing frequency.
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O" later followed with critiques of the rigid school system and its mind-numbing effects, just as Seo Taiji did in "Classroom Idea.
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And of course, no one can forget the mind-numbing destroyer of worlds, Christianity's spokesperson, our born-again 803rd president, George W. Bush.
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A new, quietly introduced visa form reminds us that mind-numbing bureaucracy can be an effective family-separation tool if that's your game.
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And no one expects him to sit quietly through nearly two days of normally mind-numbing speeches by at least 28 other leaders.
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He seemed to always be on the edge of two worlds, of ecstasy and mind-numbing routine, of the surreal and of Streatham.
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Humans shouldn't be doing a lot of jobs that are either dangerous or stupid or mind-numbing and they're not going to be.
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However, one thing inside The House Cat Videos Built feels out of place: one of the Wi-Fi networks crawls at mind-numbing speed.
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Together they founded BREWPUBLIK, a company which takes the hassle out of the mind-numbing number of choices that beer-drinkers are faced with.
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First came a series of international conferences that cataloged the mind-numbing medical and humanitarian consequences that will follow any use of nuclear weapons.
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Post-drink cocktails are the fuel that keeps the hamsters on the hamster wheel through the general ennui of the mind-numbing work week.
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At 13, Buffett took what could have been a mind-numbing job as a paper boy and turned it into a competition with himself.
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But the work is excruciating, mind-numbing, and often soul-killing, sparking controversy for traumatizing those who are exposed to so much disgusting material.
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Think of the insanity of becoming sedentary and wasting time with mind-numbing electronic content, then wearing that experience as a badge of honor.
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This is something television, a medium that has a history of favoring mind-numbing consistency, has only begun to tackle over the last two decades.
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Israeli cameras, adapted from military devices, use artificial intelligence to scan for flaws in the fabric, automating one of the most mind-numbing of jobs.
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But the game's difficulty, which is low, isn't about pulling up walls in front of the player that require technical skill or mind-numbing repetition.
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Fortunately for fans sick of mind-numbing hospital talk, Robert sacrificed himself by interrupting dinner and spewing blood all over the food and several aristocrats.
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Those human labelers, who probably have the most mind-numbing job in tech, can either be the company's Mechanical Turk users or third-party service.
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In fact, current RPS policies were estimated to cost a mind-numbing 18.6 times more than a broader portfolio that includes those low-carbon sources.
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While air strikes often grab the headlines, the vast majority of missions in Afghanistan involve hours of mind-numbing surveillance and intelligence gathering, crews say.
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They're heinous, and it will take many hours of watching mind-numbing reality television to strike feet nails from my memory — if it's even possible.
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His team was inert, the offense consisting of a mind-numbing set of nowhere runs and Manning passes that went a yard or 2, or 3.
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The space agency conducted its first test of the system on October 4, with the parachute deploying successfully at a mind-numbing speed of mach 1.8.
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Add to that the mind-numbing volume of porn careening through the internet and it is evident that the appetite for all things sexual is unquenchable.
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The Joyetech eGo AIO takes all the mind-numbing complexity out of vaping, and at $25, it's cheap enough for anyone to try at least once.
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Granted, many pop songs are profane, mind numbing garbage, but considering Beyoncé's status as Pagan Goddess of Secular America, her garbage is all the more toxic.
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"When I started doing iStock, I had the most mind-numbing job doing customer service at a call center," the California-based photographer told BuzzFeed News.
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The architecture is striking in its banality; bureaucratic, sterile, and repetitive, a detention center is a mind-numbing maze with few windows and omnipresent security cameras.
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I got people who didn't insist I got drugged to the gills with a lot of mind numbing things that basically turn you into a vegetable.
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Click here to view original GIFAnimating anything by hand using stop-motion techniques, one frame at a time, is a time-consuming and mind-numbing process.
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Terms like "yield curve" can be mind-numbing if you're not a bond trader, but the mechanics, practical impact and psychology of it are fairly straightforward.
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Finally, there's Colin (Mark Proksch), a "psychic vampire," who doesn't drink people but rather drains their energy, hilariously, by boring them with his mind-numbing dullness.
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Now that's a name that Cirque du Soleil's international audience has no doubt heard of, while the mind-numbing rest, as Shakespeare might have said, is silence.
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In 21978, director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriters Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner delivered a shotgun blast of dark comedy, social satire, and mind-numbing violence with RoboCop.
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"It was their approach to this that's gotten us into this situation, and their insistence on maintaining the status quo is just mind-numbing," Rogers told CNN.
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This would usually result in a day of mind-numbing torment for me and some incredibly shoddily built decks for some unlucky homeowners in the Kawartha region.
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Being outdoors has always been an escape for me, a respite from the aggressive pace and mind-numbing din of the big international cities I've called home.
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Their exchange captured the mind-numbing complexity of the conflict, the shrinking number of viable options for dealing with it, and the fast-moving nature of events.
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The infomercial — that mind-numbing, long-form television commercial in which washed-up celebrities hawked juicers or fitness machines — had been around in some form for years.
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Joe Schwarcz, the director of the Office for Science and Society at McGill University in Montreal, called the craze "mind numbing nonsense" in a newsletter last year.
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From sudden bursts of green palm trees among desert sands to rocky Martian mountain ranges, the scenery in Saudi was far less mind-numbing than I expected.
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LONDON — Since Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the mind-numbing debate has been peppered with blunders that have looked, at times, like satire.
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Foria, a vaginal insert containing cannabis oil is currently available in California; the tampon-shaped suppository claims to provide muscle relief without the mind-numbing body high.
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The sections showing the workers performing mind-numbing tasks illuminates another kind of absurdity: why are some lives deemed worthy of desire while others are seen as expendable?
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And those changes, coming in an age of mind-numbing congestion and heightened climate change worry, will benefit New Yorkers long after the L train shutdown is over.
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It was more that drone seemed to be leading a huge proportion of privileged young people to believe that this most pointless and mind-numbing activity was worthwhile.
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It's unclear why Kennedy felt the need to escalate this, and the whole argument reminded me of a mind-numbing night learning The Settlers of Catan with friends.
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HOWEVER, if there is a single clip to be willingly entertained from this mind-numbing series, it's this one, from last night's installment featuring our queen Céline Dion.
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Frustrated by a lack of Democratic cooperation on executive branch nominations, the Republican majority on Wednesday engineered the latest twist in the struggle over mind-numbing Senate rules.
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Well, uh, think again: PreShow will use facial recognition to make sure you're watching every mind-numbing second of those ads—and they'll automatically pause if you look away.
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The future of enterprise software won't be about complicated dashboards and mind-numbing amounts of big data; it will be about well-designed interfaces that make work a pleasure.
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This freedom from want was not dependent on your SAT score or the number of hours you spent in a mind-numbing job search or passing a drug test.
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Zuckerberg's creation is no longer a social network — it has metamorphosed into a mind-numbing contagion that afflicts various segments of the American public with differing degrees of malignancy.
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Most of the crammed-in performances at a snazzy yet soulless purple-hued church setting (the Vibiana in Los Angeles) were mediocre at best and mind-numbing at worst.
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But the late nights, smoky bars, and mind-numbing conversations with patrons wore me down, and I quickly traded late nights for a daytime job as an office temp.
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To finish off one hell of a mind-numbing meal, you'll probably want a nightcap—and with some weed-infused liquor, you can end the night the right way.
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Now, a World Series that seemingly has had everything — scintillating comebacks, mind-numbing heat, an offensive gesture and a record number of home runs — will have a seventh game.
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That has left midlevel employees and diplomats — including some just returning from high-level or difficult overseas assignments — to spend months performing mind-numbing clerical functions beside unpaid interns.
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Our son, Johnny, has chosen the route from Minneapolis to Fort Collins; he'd like us to cut through South Dakota rather than make the mind-numbing drive across Nebraska.
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Lo-TEK, available from Taschen, $50.00In today's mind-numbing digital world, author Julia Watson takes a look at low-tech, sustainable architecture and how human ingenuity adapts to nature.
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The problem is that we have an educational system that's based on taking our natural penchant for exploration and fashioning it into a willingness to take on mind-numbing routine.
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After yet another day of mind-numbing monotony at work, the last thing you want to do is cook a meal that is long on prep and short on flavor.
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This mind-numbing, 11-minute timelapse shows him spending an entire work day painstakingly reassembling a five-pound mis-printed note that the Bank of England shredded to tiny bits.
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To feel like you're finally getting somewhere, only to end up back in the same place is probably one of the most mind numbing experiences one could ever go through.
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While some might see such repetition as mind-numbing, he finds it inspirational, so much so that crucial movements like "swipe" and "flood" became key concepts as well as titles.
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The confused ranting feels at times like the dramatic equivalent of a nervous breakdown, and, added to Joseph K.'s actual trial, makes for a mind-numbing, drawn-out whole.
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But as eager as banks are to work with newcomers in the space, navigating such a large and complicated organization can often be mind-numbing for the early-stage companies.
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In all-night sessions over hotpots and baijiu (a potent alcoholic spirit), he conspired with local residents Xu Fan and Yang Wen to make this mind-numbing cuisine even hotter.
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There were a lot of the usual mind-numbing blockbusters and sequels that always bring in the box-office coin, but very few of those stay with you for long.
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In the negative sense of the word, I find recording instrumental parts tedious in a way that is unfortunately not mind-numbing, and recording vocals both emotionally and physically draining.
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Something so mind-numbing yet unforgettable that you wish you could bend Heaven and Earth just to find some sort of magical brush with which you could scrub your mind clean?
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If the original version is saturated in electro-pop brightness, the rework goes darker with mind-numbing bass and thick synth stabs, grounding it while still maintaining the song's uplifting message.
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Mr Clavin, whose previous book explored the legend of Dodge City, takes a swipe at an earlier Hickok biography as a "somewhat mind-numbing saga of facts and disclaimers and rebuttals".
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NLP in effect can provide those charged with finding redundant rules with a virtual map by which to navigate the otherwise mind-numbing complexity of rule making verbiage and overlapping jurisdictions.
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Between the anticipation of what's to come, the noise, the crowds and mind-numbing delays, commuting to or from work can be one of the most stressful parts of your day.
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Perhaps most importantly, it encourages commercial and cultural exchange, and removes a source of grievance from people otherwise forced to endure long queues at embassies and mind-numbing piles of paperwork.
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They argue that providing some place for disabled Americans to go, even if it is a workshop where we perform repetitive and mind-numbing labor, is better than sitting at home.
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The mind numbing beach vacation sampling (used on prior albums but perfected on Dots and Loops) makes you feel like you're in the 50s version of what the future looks like.
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Instead of driving an hour from one town to the next across the frozen Iowa tundra, the high-paced Super Tuesday sprint requires time-consuming flights and mind-numbing logistical planning.
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Ice-cold bolts of ecstasy shoot like novas through the glamorous muddle and murk of "Lazarus," the great-sounding, great-looking and mind-numbing new musical built around songs by David Bowie.
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We've all been there — a missed flight or delay leads to hours of mind-numbing boredom in the terminal — unless overpriced food and stale air is your idea of a good time.
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The Warriors had already proven themselves to be a near-unbeatable super-team; adding Mr Cousins to the mix risked turning the entire 2018-19 season into a mind-numbing coronation ceremony.
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There are no grunting weightlifters, no clanging coming from the squat rack, and you can't even hear a hint of the mind-numbing pump-up music pouring out of the gym's speakers.
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Robot vacuums have seriously taken over the internet, but vacuuming is such a mind-numbing chore that it's easy to see why no one can shut up about these devices (including us).
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During that time span, we had to navigate lots of appointments and a mind-numbing amount of paperwork, the majority of which needed to be signed in the presence of a notary.
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Rummage around their home and it's all there: the agreements and the arguments; the hobbies and the hang-ups; the unique neuroses and the utterly mind-numbing ordinariness of an everyday existence.
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For a guy who once clung to the side of an Airbus 400 to execute a mind-numbing opening stunt for "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation," Cruise's devotion to total realism isn't surprising.
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Linda Greenhouse So Neil M. Gorsuch, the aw-shucks humble servant of the law whom the country encountered during his mind-numbing confirmation hearing, turns out to be a hard-right conservative.
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G. Addiction has a sense of repetition: mind-numbing, soul-sucking, life-destroying repetition punctuated by the chaos of withdrawal, or intrusions of reality in the form of death, family, or the law.
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"We are willing to do the un-fun, mind-numbing work of making [Matrix] highly reliable, and robust and redundant and able to sustain failures — multiple failures — and still work," Van Buiten says.
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That high productivity also took endless, mind-numbing work: to prepare and tend the fields, keep up the homestead and defend the surpluses needed to feed everyone from one harvest to the next.
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It's truly mind-numbing to try to come up with a more profoundly mundane use of VR. "But they'll have stats, and you can talk to your friends from far away," you say.
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Of course, the practice of spitting is widespread, and necessary for the survival and wellbeing of the somms and enthusiasts who regularly taste a mind-numbing amount of wine at vineyards and festivals.
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Government as a service means all the mind-numbing administrative [duties] can be reduced and in many many places replaced so that we can invest in providing support to those who need it.
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It wasn't habitable, so we kept living in our Crown Heights rental as we figured out how to do the work, which was tied up by expired permits and mind-numbing construction bureaucracy.
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In the case of implementing Positive Train Control, U.S. policy is so diffuse, the details so mind-numbing and contradictory, and the funding so vaporous, that we've erected barriers to common-sense policy.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the tragedy was "mind-numbing" and directed the federal health minister to facilitate transfer of those injured to All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a group of government hospitals.
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Chance's vocal calling cards — those "yups" and chirps — sound like affirmations now, signs that a kid from a city with a mind-numbing murder rate can still turn out okay, successful, even wildly happy.
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At this year's TED 2016 conference, the artist Sanford Biggers took the stage and showed a 16-second video, BAM, which viscerally highlights the mind-numbing nature of police violence against the black community.
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In normal times, my husband and I lean heavily on an extended network of caregivers—grandparents, friends, babysitters, and daycare—for help with the monumental, sometimes mind-numbing task of caring for young children.
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" In 19003, when he was a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, Simon followed a squad of homicide detectives in Baltimore, "chronicling the mind-numbing violence that has become synonymous with virtually every American city.
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Growing up in East Germany, in what she would describe as a dictatorship, Ms. Merkel became accustomed to regurgitating nonsensical Soviet platitudes, or listening to the mind-numbing decrees broadcast daily on state radio.
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The sale was controversial for a couple of reasons: that mind-numbing number itself, but also the fact that there are a lot of questions — and serious doubts — about the painting's authenticity, restoration, and provenance.
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The entire queue was designed to support around a six-hour wait time, if needed — a mind-numbing prospect – but it makes the importance of a line as an attraction unto itself even more important.
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So, for now, the minivans return to the depot around midday for shift swaps, so the backup drivers get a break from what can be a fairly mind-numbing task: monitoring a self-driving car.
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Besides the obvious legal implications, it seems hard to act when you're doing take after take of mind-numbing drugs designed to make you care so little about life that you forget you're in pain.
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The holidays are generally a stressful time, thanks in no small part to the mind-numbing task of having to think of (and not to mention, afford) the perfect presents for our friends and family.
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The steel, copper, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, fiberglass and other raw materials to build all these turbines, batteries and transmission lines would require mind-numbing quantities of earth removal, mining, processing, smelting and manufacturing.
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The clip features a time-lapse of Johnson and his team collecting plastic on a Hawaiian beach and creating a colorful, yet mind-numbing mosaic out of the garbage that once floated in the ocean.
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For a British public that has often tuned out from the mind-numbing complexities of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, recent government statements, amplified by raucous newspaper headlines, have finally become comprehensible — and alarming.
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Yet Mr. Montoya, a 28-year-old immigrant's son, recently took a job at a lettuce-packing facility, where it is wet, loud, freezing — and much of the work is physically taxing, even mind-numbing.
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So in this instance, the familiar, mind-numbing cold of World Series games has given way to brain-melting heat, though the temperature should drop at least a few degrees as the game goes on.
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Even though some rules "pushed the edges of legal authority," the Obama administration mustered a stronger defense by assembling "thousands of pages of support and technical analysis, laid out in mind-numbing detail," he said.
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Far away from FIFA's glass-encased and Bond-villainesque Zurich offices, but somewhere among the shopping malls, mind-numbing traffic and tropical heat of Jakarta, you can find evidence of the international soccer organization's inept governance.
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Because it front-loads all of this (and because it trusts players to be able to follow along without a mind numbing tutorial), Breath of the Wild can immediately begin challenging you to do incredible things.
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At trial, the presentation and admission of documents can be a mind-numbing process, but once the documents are in evidence, good prosecutors will be able to weave the documents into a livelier tale of wrongdoing.
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Covering local news, as its reporters do, can mean sitting through hours of mind-numbing City Council hearings or leaving your family in the middle of the night to race to the scene of a shooting.
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It is certainly a critical time for LACMA to consider this approach in a city that is not only sprawling but increasingly neighborhood-constrained given the problematics of public transportation, and the mind-numbing traffic issues.
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So cancel that mind-numbing conference call you have scheduled for Tuesday morning and move it to Thursday afternoon instead, and embrace your summer lull as preparation for the fall burst of energy you know will follow.
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The incongruity of squaring how good the match was without yielding to the pressure of declaring it an all-timer caused exactly the sort of mind-numbing argument various fandoms, sports or otherwise, tend to descend into.
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Biles is able to combine exquisite execution with mind-numbing difficulty that puts her so far above the rest of the competition that she has won three straight world all-around titles and four U.S. national titles.
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A president who shaped his first three years in office trying to sell Americans on obscure corporate tax provisions, minute details of tariffs and the rollback of mind-numbing regulations has a new approach: Keep it simple.
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What makes this especially mind-numbing is that Exxon knew for decades that its business was altering the climate but repeatedly deceived the public, just as the tobacco companies knew their cigarettes caused cancer but denied it.
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Although the headlines are jumbled, you can make out the originals if you listen closely — but the narrator's monotonous voice is soporific; the back-and-forth, lackluster pull of the same four or so strings mind-numbing.
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As another album cycle kicks into overdrive with the forthcoming release of his excellent Clipper Ship (which is streaming below), Toth has done his best to disrupt the mind-numbing repetition of album promotion and all it entails.
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For a struggling, emerging country such as Ukraine in 2010-2014 (the years Yanukovych served as president), where the average monthly wage is around $200, spending $60 million on a foreign political consultancy is a mind-numbing sum.
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The 2018 playoffs and World Series offered a parade of twitchy managers yanking their starting pitchers after four innings, summoning a parade of faceless relievers to throw one mind-numbing fastball after another for fractions of an inning.
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He has never spearheaded an electoral campaign, and has already stumbled as he tries to negotiate the mind-numbing complexities of Iraqi politics for a vote that will test his own political acumen in a challenging security environment.
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We know this intuitively — think of the depressing office cubicle, which has spawned its own genre of literature, or the mind-numbing gray crisscross of highways — but the pointless frenzy of modern life makes it frighteningly easy to forget.
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Instead of asking how people are getting addicted and what can be done to stop them, we need to ask why people are turning to the mind-numbing effects of opioids and what we could do to help them.
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We know doing your taxes isn't the most glamorous way to spend your time, but we found amazing deals on tax software from Quicken, Intuit, TurboTax, H&R Block, and more to guide you through the mind-numbing process.
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Meanwhile, the audience was left to suffer at the hands of the mind numbing warm-up act, who larked about in the arena telling shit jokes and throwing around Haribo like the second-rate panto performer he probably is.
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One of the objectives of BNY Mellon's bot strategy is to help the organization "get rid of the mind numbing tasks" so that employees could focus on different activities, said Doug Shulman, senior executive vice president at BNY Mellon.
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Globetrotting graffiti artists arrived every year for Art Basel and plastered the warehouse walls with mind-numbing color; hipster-owned restaurants that took a page from those in Williamsburg and Silver Lake opened; and international galleries with haughty galleristas decamped.
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Well, work in Ford's plants was extremely unpleasant—workers spent all day at mind-numbing tasks on the new-fangled assembly line—and when Ford set the wage at the rate workers could get anywhere else, turnover was extremely high.
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While there are downtown choreographers who present their latest mind-numbing trivia like constructions of historic ambition, Ms. Tanowitz is the opposite: an unusually gifted and original dance-maker who makes pieces that seem elaborately uninviting and brilliantly minor-league.
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"It was mind numbing," Brighton tells me over Skype from LA. "For weeks, I was doing 18 hour days just trying to chip away at this flood of phone calls, text messages, emails…" Strangers were calling to book the band.
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The interminable self-congratulatory awards slog that is the Oscars is trying to do right by you, the viewer, and has decided to shift its mind-numbing, never-ending extravaganza of dresses and "SPEECHABLE MOMENTS" back a whole half-hour earlier.
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See (actually, don't see) "Brother Nature," a mind-numbing fish story in which Roger (Taran Killam) spends an uncomfortable few days in the woods with people he hopes will be his future in-laws, among them the oafish Todd (Bobby Moynihan).
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With jokes about racism, Indian stereotypes, and observations of all the mind-numbing things going on in the world right now, Kondabolu somehow manages to wrangle laughs out of some of the most infuriating facets of life in Warn Your Relatives.
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And while many cooks have started young — the French chef Jacques Pépin left school at 13 to apprentice — traditionally they had to suffer years of mind-numbing menial labor, cuts, burns and abuse before they ever earned the title chef.
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Both are at incredibly different stages of their lives: Matt's working a mind-numbing job to support his pregnant wife Sherri (Cash), while Jeff's living the slacker dream, working at a coffee shop while having uncomplicated fun with his girlfriend, Noelle (Zazie Beetz).
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Pretty much every top 10 player in the solo and duos tournaments was part of lesser-known but nonetheless serious-minded e-sports organizations like Cooler and Sentinels, within which they practiced for mind-numbing stretches every day for months on end.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The videos of mind-numbing first bites and long lines, the celebratory memes and fawning reviews: The return of the Popeyes chicken sandwich on Sunday has met with the same social-media frenzy that first greeted it last summer.
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That their efforts were joined by other Internet companies and associations speaks not to those other groups' civic nature, but to their captive state in the Google-Netflix imperium, and to their mind-numbing lack of knowledge about things like politics and history.
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So I think the actors in this film do, in a way, represent what I have seen in China's factory zones: this is now a more permanent state, and while the work may be mind-numbing, people are more resigned to it.
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If your idea of a children's board game is a mind-numbing round of Candyland, know that there's a whole crop of new options that are more thoughtful, challenging, and engaging than the typical "roll and move" games you probably remember from childhood.
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The mind-numbing and cookie-cutting process of modern education removes anything creative from our minds, and with the removal of shop classes by the older generations, the kids who have these skills struggle to prosper or find a passion in school.
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Click here to view original GIFAfter a mind-numbing election cycle and a distressing car accident, I dramatically deleted Twitter from my phone early last year, giving my brain a break from the creeping sense of exhaustion that was building up over the holidays.
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When I watch television, I don't want the confusion that can often accompany character-driven dramas or the unrealistic antics of so-called reality TV. I want my television time and my Netflix binging to be a period of solace and mind-numbing ease.
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The birth of streaming television has given us a merciful respite from the mind-numbing ad breaks that finance broadcast TV. But you can't keep a bad thing down, and Amazon is reportedly developing an ad-supported, free version of its popular Prime video service.
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The Post's report about automation creating an increasingly monotonous, confined, and mind-numbing work environment for Walmart workers immediately calls to mind similar reports about the company's retail rival Amazon, which has also been shifting to free labor performed by robots for years now.
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GM partly created the problem because it added extra tasks to the workers' jobs in an effort to ease the monotony of a job that likely would become mind-numbing otherwise, but Time reporter Edwin Reingold suggested that that wasn't what employees actually wanted.
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I mean, how can we not feel dragged down by some of the mind-numbing moments that accompany infancy, the anxiety-filled times when we feel we have no idea what we're doing, or those days that seem so long, they could stretch into years?
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Live, in performances like the ones on his record You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With (2006), released on his Giorno Poetry Systems label, he weaved his voice around the backing tracks to produce a mind-numbing mandala of sound and meaning.
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The Jets went through the toughest portion of their schedule—though they still have two games left against Tom Brady and the Patriots—and played to a 1-5 record, including mind-numbing losses to the Chiefs, Steelers, and most recently, the Arizona Cardinals.
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For most of us, taxes are a simple but mind-numbing chore: You dust off your TurboTax login, you type the numbers into the little boxes, and a seemingly random number is generated telling you how much you owe or how much you get back.
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If this book were simply a compendium of known truths, it would make for harmless (if pointless) reading; what makes it infuriating is the mind-numbing regurgitation of common sense combined with the suggestion that it was only recently discovered by his vaunted researchers.
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The computers simply freed the humans from mind-numbing work like counting out 20-dollar bills to focus on more cognitively demanding tasks like "forging relationships with customers, solving problems and introducing them to new products like credit cards, loans and investments," he said.
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Photo: APApple CEO Tim Cook took some time from his busy WWDC 2018 schedule on Monday to clarify something: He does not intend to subject us all to the kind of mind-numbing speculation about political ambitions previously cultivated by other tech billionaires like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
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I've already used the word "virgin" 27 times in this article and honestly, going through the rest of the dumb jokes, unenlightened commentary, and subliminal imaging within the show (so many exploding champagne bottles) as they pertain to Underwood's sex journey will be mind-numbing for everyone.
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In the face of such mind-numbing violence, it's natural that we search for an all-encompassing explanation, whether it take the form of lax gun control (or conversely, no "good guy with a gun" to stop the shooter), poor mental health care, or jihadi ideology.
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The reason Sex and the City is a good show to rewatch is precisely because it was made before I was supposed to worry about whether or not something was problematic and could just enjoy a TV show on its own merits as mind-numbing entertainment.
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Students first face an often multi-hour series of technical steps just to get the software set up before they begin working through tedious button-clicking instructions, which are at best mind-numbing and at worst outdated and inaccurate for the current version of the software.
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Last week, I took Facebook to task for the mind-numbing complexity of its emerging content policies, which speak broadly of the virtues of free expression but allow the company wide latitude to remove or reduce the distribution of certain posts for a variety of reasons.
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The mind-numbing nature of cookie consent boxes leads many to ignore them or click whatever option will make them go away, which is great for information-hungry companies, as it means a bevy of third parties can continue to slurp up each begrudging user's data.
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Every other day of the year—from yesterday to today to tomorrow to next week—we grit our teeth as Hulu forces us to watch yet another repetitive, mind-numbing ad while we try to remain engrossed in the short span of a 30-minute show.
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So to sum up: That's roughly three or four years of mind-numbing kiddie shows and young parents feeling like they're losing their identities, followed by a lifetime of rich, often highly rewarding relationships, marked by some of the most lasting memories that anyone can make.
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"It's mind-numbing that a guy [who] is going to be secretary of Labor said he'd like to be able to replace his workers with robots because they don't take a break and they don't need a rest," said Leo Gerard, president of 1.2-million-member United Steelworkers.
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Maybe it's different for the 0.1 percent at the top of the pyramid (you with your shining eye on the back of the dollar bill), but for most of us the world is a confusing, complicated, mind-numbing place over which we feel a dismaying lack of control.
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As a lover of textual ingenuity, I'm most struck, in Mr. Trump's speeches, by the mind-numbing syntactic simplicity of his utterances, by the lack of logical coordination and subordination, and by the repetition of basic subject-verb-object sentences with little in the way of coherent connection.
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Leading up to the epic release of Avengers: Endgame, plenty of folks (yours truly included) were worried that the inevitable addition of time travel to the MCU would undermine the series' fundamental structure and leave our favorite heroes in a pile of mind-numbing paradoxes, fallacies, and plot holes.
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Another neurochemical that increases in the sleep-deprived brain, adenosine, has been shown to correlate with resilience to depression and its mind-numbing effects while also mediating the effects of an all-nighter, and it seems to be central to the action of other depression treatments, like ketamine.
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If you've ever stared at the mind-numbing (and ever-growing) selection of craft beers among the aisles of your grocery or corner store, you've surely noticed the prevalence of images of scantily clad women wrapped around bottles and the lame wordplay that inevitably goes along with them.
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" Constance MacDougall, in an email to the Planning and Zoning Commission, called it an "insult" to the town's colonial tradition, "a mind-numbing monochromatic gray cartoon of a wall devoid of any visual element that would give it a measure of compatibility to the landscape on which it sits.
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This isn't just a seemingly benign question posed to his 48 million followers; it's a mind-numbing logic puzzle that is only amplified by the fact that the Facebook founder has surely surrounded himself with legions of yes-men who will praise his apparel regardless of it's actual merits or limitations.
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Legal experts said Manafort may call witnesses who can help show: But blowing up Gates' reputation likely won't be enough, by itself, to secure Manafort's freedom, legal analysts told VICE News, because the prosecution's case also involves a lengthy — at times, mind-numbing — paper trail, and some two-dozen other witnesses.
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If I had to sit through one more debate over a mind-numbing amendment from Senate Minority Leader Chuck SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerTed Cruz clarifies after Lev Parnas's lawyer calls senator's tweet 'fake news' House Democrats unveil 85033B infrastructure plan Democrats to unveil infrastructure plan with eye on 2020 elections MORE (D-N.
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Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), a movie star existing in a mind-numbing purgatory at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood — he drinks, he has anonymous sex, he burns rubber in his Ferrari — finds something to live for after his ex-wife leaves their 11-year-old daughter (Elle Fanning) in his care.
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I think that it is very important that people begin to think for themselves again because without the ability to create an idea for themselves society is going to drift into a mind numbing state were nobody is even able to think for themself any more and there will be no variety in peoples opinions.
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The answer is that when we were in college MMA wasn't even MMA yet; it was just ultimate fighting, which meant it was just barbarism, and any college class about it would have been some mind-numbing slog through its sociological implications and the insight it offered into the decay of the human mind and the collapse of civilization.
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But the show made improvements where it counts most: Its fight scenes vastly improve upon the garbage disposal-like quality of jump cuts masquerading as brawls in season one, and the writing has moved away from the mind-numbing exposition that characterized much of season one, trusting the audience to understand what's happening without dialogue constantly reminding them.
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Destiny 2 first launched to critical acclaim for the ways Bungie made the game more player-friendly and less dependent on repetitive, mind-numbing activities, but the developer made a number of near-fatal mistakes in the process, like watering down the game's competitive multiplayer and a lack of end-game content, that almost lost it its most hardcore fans.
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Continue the hotel hopping with Ms. Coppola's "SOMEWHERE" (2010), also on iTunes and Amazon, about Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), a movie star in a mind-numbing purgatory at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood — he drinks, has anonymous sex, burns rubber in his Ferrari — who finds something to live for after his ex-wife leaves their 11-year-old (Elle Fanning) in his care.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In these times of stridency and shrillness, how are works of art that speak with the softness of rustling chiffon in an overheated parlor ever to be heard amid a din of protest, propaganda, real news, fake news, politics-as-spectacle, or the staged, self-serving confessionals-as-entertainment that have become a mainstay of the media's mind-numbing echo chamber?
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Comcast and Verizon Want Ajit Pai&aposs FCC to Block States From Passing Own Internet LawsStaffers for Federal Communications Commission chair Ajit Pai, who has made rolling back Barack…Read more ReadAnyone watching the mind-numbing arguments for each item on the FCC commissions agenda today could easily walk away thinking that all of the votes were sensible and this agency is doing a great job.
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A dark and disorientating weekend that stretched federal and local governments, the economy and the health care system to a breaking point, served to clarify the mind-numbing scale of the worst domestic crisis to hit the nation since World War II. It ended with deeply ominous questions about the economy -- which appears to be tumbling into the abyss, and with fresh doubts over the President's capacity to lead and reassure the nation.
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By the time the full running-order is announced, it resembles a musical carousel, where festival-goers can take a ride on Brazilian funk, mind-numbing techno, a rap act who got a four star review in a broadsheet newspaper, or the latest pop clone to be signed to a major label, before crawling back to their tented coffins with an encroaching case of trench foot and what they perceive to be a culturally enriched sense of being.
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You don't need a PhD from Princeton, or 30 years' experience at Langley studying the successive Kim regimes' mind-numbing propaganda statements, to know what Pyongyang will almost certainly do during what President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE bills as a "one-time shot" to escape its reputation as the roguest of rogue regimes on Planet Earth.
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Here's a non-exhaustive list of other action words you can use: Action Verbs For Initiative • Spearhead • Establish • Implement • Launch • Volunteer • Initiate • Revitalize • Overhaul • Modernize • Transform Action Verbs For Creativity • Design • Develop • Build • Construct • Shape • Compose • Envision • Engineer • Conceive • Craft Action Verbs For Critical Thinking • Research • Analyze • Examine • Synthesize • Assess • Conceptualize • Discover • Determine • Evaluate • Dissect Action Verbs for Management • Direct • Train • Guide • Steer • Assign • Approve • Support • Encourage • Recruit • Designate Action Verbs For Communication • Negotiate • Compromise • Persuade • Report • Convey • Present • Notify • Publish • Discuss • Mediate Tip: Avoid Business Jargon The general idea is to really hone in on what it is you've accomplished, using verbs that immediately call to mind an image of achievement and leadership all the while avoiding shallow, mind-numbing corporatespeak.
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