Then there were the were numbingly familiar statements from conservative pastors.
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His approach is mind-numbingly simple, yet seemingly impossible to replicate.
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In fact, in the last two decades it's become numbingly normal.
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It's mind‑numbingly boring, yet demands total attention to every detail from
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Cabins were as temperate as a meat freezer, and skull-numbingly loud.
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It's mind numbingly bleak, and somehow managed a decent box-office draw.
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That's because most movies are numbingly uncreative when it comes to movie violence.
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Most admissions essays were mind-numbingly bland and read like a shopping list.
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And finally, David recommends a Sichuan sauce that's mind- and tongue-numbingly delicious.
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Moore's works, though often figurative, can feel numbingly impersonal in their cold, hieratic serenity.
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The funny thing about fake news is how mind-numbingly boring it can be.
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Fantastic Beasts is two-plus hours of meandering eye candy that feels numbingly inconsequential.
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At the club, I was on a mission to get absolutely mind-numbingly hammered.
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You would do a series of interviews, and it was so mind numbingly boring.
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There's a numbingly familiar quality to much of the social science research he cites.
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But alas, another day, another mind-numbingly idiotic bumbling act by the White House.
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With Dyn offline, much of the internet was either mind-numbingly slow or outright inaccessible.
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In case you somehow hadn't heard, New York Fashion Week was cold mind-numbingly freezing.
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We Americans now inhabit a society so numbingly false that even our melancholy is masquerade.
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Most of what happens during that hour seems to be willfully, even numbingly anti-dramatic.
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But let's face it: The off-season of 2017-20183 has been mind-numbingly boring.
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The paralyzing fear and 24/7, no-end-in-sight quarantine is soul-numbingly lonely.
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In the coming weeks, you may sometimes find the subject to be mind-numbingly complicated.
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Austerlitz was complaining that megastars have replaced mind-numbingly dreary indie bands in the canon.
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Finally, a very different serving for your mental taste buds: "mind-numbingly predictable" ice cream sundaes.
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Quests from the Tortollans, a race of turtle people, can be mind-numbingly dumb and slow.
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More and more people are catching onto the mind-numbingly formulaic magic of A Christmas Prince.
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Not only does he stick out like a sore thumb, his story feels mind-numbingly familiar.
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Just when does gastronomic innovation change from unparalleled advancement to a mind-numbingly horrific fever dream?
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Even on a nose-numbingly cold morning, families were out on the sidewalks around Prospect Avenue.
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This is a world of claustrophobic identikit interiors, kitsch consumer glut, and mind-numbingly tedious labor.
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They're even called "soulmate puffins," which is so mind-numbingly adorable it makes my Grinch heart palpitate.
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The kilogram follows the other SI units that have gone from (relatively) straightforward to mind-numbingly complex.
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Inside, the building was numbingly cold, as Kos-Read had warned; there was no insulation or heating.
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Its inner workings are mind-numbingly complicated and vary slightly across the nine versions it comes in.
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After Monday's numbingly boring opener, someone needs to take "The New Celebrity Apprentice" into the boardroom, quick.
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I am sitting here, I am mind-numbingly, I just cannot understand his inaction on all of these issues.
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But first, let's talk about 55 Cancri e, because this planet is both mind-numbingly weird and historically significant.
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Certain prejudices have prevented us from learning more about these creatures, mainly because some consider them mind-numbingly ugly.
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The health-care debate "has become mind-numbingly complicated," wrote the influential commentator Byron York in the Washington Examiner.
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But for a ceremony that can be numbingly predictable, it was energized by a slew of first-time winners.
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For those who insist on building this bridge to nowhere, the disappointments are petty, frequent, and almost numbingly ordinary.
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Not gourmet or mind-numbingly wild, but so much higher than the expectation that it can sweep you away.
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In an industry that tries to thrill audiences, the identities of the studio chairmen are almost mind-numbingly predictable.
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This one is so tragically, numbingly and predictably the same as we have so sadly witnessed so many times.
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Seriously, all these little floofs do is munch on wildflowers and grass—the images of which are mind-numbingly cute.
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Here, though, his excesses are most apparent in the emphasis on the numbingly endless fighting than on the image plane.
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As a rule, we rarely post news about printers here on Gizmodo because, as a rule, they're mind-numbingly boring.
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Despite this inherent flexibility, however, modern managers have settled into a mind-numbingly rigid pattern when it comes to reliever usage.
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Anything that offers a reprieve from mind-numbingly boring workouts in dank basements is tempting, especially in the new year. Me?
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Workers on Ford's assembly lines spent entire shifts doing mind-numbingly repetitive work, and many could not stick it for long.
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While that may be such a numbingly simple concept that it's irritating just to read, Democrats somehow forget this basic truth.
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They sound damn impressive, but they're mind-numbingly easy, with a handful of ingredients that you might even have on hand.
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It could have been mind-numbingly repetitive but actually proved charmingly inventive, as they wove, ruffled, striped and flower-encrusted it.
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"If Our Bodies Could Talk" is a numbingly upbeat grab bag of anecdotes and factoids and curiosities with no through-narrative.
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The games on classic Tamagotchis are so mind numbingly simple that they cannot have been designed with the owner's amusement in mind.
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It is so deeply, mind-numbingly tedious, in fact, that you owe it to yourself to see exactly how one is made.
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This tax proposal not only takes away those incentives, it adds enormous complexity to a code that is already mind-numbingly incomprehensible.
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"Risk" may be the watchword of its protagonist, the monomaniacal Robert Merkin (a miscast Steven Pasquale), yet "Junk" feels almost numbingly safe.
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Iowa's caucuses are mind-numbingly convoluted and anti-democratic, favoring the most motivated, well-organized few over the less-obsessive majority of Iowans.
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The cycle can feel numbingly familiar: mass shooting, followed by politicians offering their thoughts and prayers, followed by others demanding stricter gun laws.
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Contemporary antitrust regulation, the commissioner wrote, is conducted in the courts, which makes it numbingly slow and dependent on high-paid expert witnesses.
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Physicist Dominic Walliman writes children&aposs books and creates YouTube videos that teach children mild-numbingly complex topics like quantum physics and nanotechnology.
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Bubbles is a mind-numbingly dumb and addictive app that lets you blow virtual bubbles into the universe and pop them with your finger.
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There is no "one-size-fits-all" security platform — it's a mind-numbingly fragmented market, which irritates the heck out of investors and customers.
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It was clear that he prefers application to theory, and exchanges that struck me as numbingly detailed often seemed to excite him the most.
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It was such a happy time, but as any one self-employed knows, it can also be a mind-numbingly terrifying rollercoaster of emotions.
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In today's mind-numbingly polarized climate, which in many ways was engineered by Stone himself, Jackson's appeals to America's most basic virtues fell flat.
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I felt mind-numbingly proud of watching him achieve his career goals, but the internal dissonance gutted me in a way I couldn't have anticipated.
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THE details around network neutrality, the principle that internet-service providers (ISPs) must treat all sorts of web traffic equally, can be mind-numbingly abstruse.
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The latest: Rudy Giuliani's declaration Sunday that "truth isn't truth," which is mind-numbingly WTF and yet somehow perfect for our post-"fake news" era.
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And with that, Jayden was off into the sky, ready to yawn his way through two hours and fourteen minutes of mind-numbingly routine travel.
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Unlike college basketball's annual "March Madness" tournament, whose guaranteed diet of upsets makes it must-see TV, the NBA can be almost mind-numbingly predictable.
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If that sounds mind numbingly horrific, remember: You can always sneak off and smoke a cigarette behind the canteen or hook up by the lake.
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In the meantime, the Empire State remains plagued by crumbling roads and bridges, numbingly long commutes, water utilities in crisis and, yes, third-world airports.
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It is not, however, fashionable to love acknowledgments, and for good reason: Most of them are numbingly predictable in their architecture, little Levittowns of gratitude.
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Switzerland has developed a habit of qualifying for major tournaments, emerging from the group stage, and then being knocked out in a mind-numbingly dull game.
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In the past, regulators and staff would have "mind numbingly long conversations" about a single paragraph to arrive at a unanimous decision, said one senior staffer.
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Can it break its habit of qualifying for major tournaments, emerging from the group stage, and then being knocked out in a mind-numbingly dull game?
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Yet there is no evidence of this, and putting such a request in such a way as to leave a paper trail would be mind-numbingly stupid.
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Sure, we all know about Thomas Keller's involvement in Ratatouille and your Japanophile buddy has probably shown you a mind-numbingly surreal anime like Shokugeki no Soma.
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But where Mr. Jarmusch is a connoisseur of bleakness, Ms. Reichardt makes her artfully banal terrain of laundromats, convenience stores and cloverleaf highways seem brain-numbingly oppressive.
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Mind-numbingly long lines at airports, soul-crushing commutes, broken buses and subway cars, and paralyzing congestion at our nation's seaports are all symptoms of gross underinvestment.
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Bob-Waksberg and Hanawalt's molotov cocktail of numbingly depraved personalities and fiery meta humor consumes the audience with nervous joy, sad anger, reluctant disgust, and ambivalent empathy.
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Filled with legal language aimed at satisfying securities regulators without alarming investors and driving down share prices, many earnings reports seem designed to be mind-numbingly boring.
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A circular firing-squad of full-on crazy, Chris Morris's "The Day Shall Come" barges into American counterterrorism tactics with sledgehammer satire and a numbingly repetitive plot.
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But even devotees of the downbeat may be tripped up by the author's penchant for numbingly repetitive clauses that seem like syntactic declarations of war on readers.
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I like some of the box office behemoths — mostly, I like "Black Panther" — but too many of them were numbingly familiar in every way, narratively, tonally, whatever.
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These are the questions the film seems to be trying to answer — but instead of making a meaningful point, it takes a mind-numbingly easy way out.
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Though Cruz is an infrequent and numbingly scripted interviewee, he is as polite to reporters one on one as he is contemptuous of them in his stump speech.
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Murmurs of a sequel to the mind-numbingly boring game Desert Bus have been circulating since last year and now, it's finally here, as reported by Ars Technica.
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Did TM actually work better for the brain than regular old paying attention to your breath (which always struck me as the most mind-numbingly boring thing possible)?
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That's when he took his first trip to the Arctic: a family vacation in the Finnish Lapland, which is numbingly cold and snowy but doesn't have polar bears.
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On Thursday, Scott Pruitt, the mind-numbingly corrupt and thoroughly medieval global warming skeptic Donald Trump saw fit to place in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency, resigned.
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His speaking voice also has a numbingly consistent and contrived cadence that makes one suspect that he has studied, in vain, one too many tapes of JFK's delivery.
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It's possible — albeit unlikely — that "Paramour" would be more engaging as a traditional musical if the songs, the story and the characters didn't feel quite so numbingly generic.
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Below, we made you a handy reference guide for the many types of mind-numbingly annoying people you will come across during your stay in Black Rock City.
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And the Fafsa can be numbingly complex for families without a high level of financial literacy — which was also the case for nearly everyone in my high school.
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Rather than rigorous journalism on the "mind-numbingly complex" consequences of the vote, Rusbridger saw much of the British press advance an agenda, the "viewspaper" in full flower.
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But how long will it take the market react to the secrets likely buried in the "dreary and repetitious" prose that makes earning reports so "mind-numbingly boring"?
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To get to "Shadows" one first needs to plow through the iconic (read: numbingly boring) "Self-Portraits" (21960–113, 211) and the too-familiar Screen Tests (216–27).
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Today, however, a numbingly vast amount of video documenting police violence is circulated online with seemingly little ability to enact justice or testify in the face of power.
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Wall Street has been selling what one lawyer calls a "mind-numbingly complex" deal to retail investors for years, but now, it may come back to bite big banks.
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One of the quietly brilliant things about the Assassin's Creed series is that the picture its lore paints of its arch-villains is almost mind-numbingly detailed and boring.
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It was mind-numbingly bland, and I realize how many of those shows I've been to over the years—the same tired bands playing tired music for tired people.
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This one has two accomplished stars, Rosario Dawson and Katherine Heigl, and Ms. Dawson, especially, does creditable work, but it doesn't matter because the format is so numbingly familiar.
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Studying was grueling, repetitive and at times mind-numbingly boring, adjectives that happen to have quite a bit of overlap with the way some lawyers would describe their jobs.
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As reported by Kotaku, this incredible, mind-numbingly boring feat was carried out in order to spite a single individual: an unknown user on a private forum named Dick Tree.
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It is mind-numbingly naive to believe that an algorithm can smooth over that racial bias baked into reality, especially when algorithms of every type are rife with racial bias.
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They bored you because they were not good, angered you because they were mind-numbingly mismanaged, and then somehow still broke your heart with crushing upset losses in the playoffs.
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There is no doubt that our business tax system can be improved: it is inefficient, it raises less revenue than that of peer countries, and it is mind-numbingly complex.
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Judge Gorsuch is clearly qualified for the court, and for the most part he handled himself smoothly over 20 hours of mind-numbingly predictable hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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But we'll forget all about this raking nonsense by tomorrow because there will almost certainly be some new, mind-numbingly idiotic comment that shows just how dumb our president can be.
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There are some games out that are so mind-numbingly rage-inducing that just the simple act of watching another human playing them is enough to bring on a cold sweat.
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Now, unlike some of the other mind-numbingly complex playoff scenarios, the task for the Eagles is relatively simple on Sunday as they battle the Minnesota Vikings for a playoff spot.
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After a year of waiting to find out if Jon Snow was really dead ("He is super dead," says Taran Killam's character) the reveal of his fate is mind-numbingly slow.
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No, not the one you're probably thinking of—unless, of course, you're thinking of sludgy noise-rock-meets-doom-pop instead of mind-numbingly expensive scraps of fabric and sky-high stilettos.
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Taken together, they painted a picture of hours of mind-numbingly detailed questions about meetings and memos, punctuated by occasional moments of emotion and bursts of legal sparring between Republicans and Democrats.
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Visit the website of any top-25 accounting firm and you'll find digital acres of white papers, articles, newsletters, blogs, infographics, videos, and podcasts, each targeted at a mind-numbingly specific subindustry.
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"In countries like Ethiopia (prevalence) is mind-numbingly, shockingly high – in some communities over 50 percent of the population have trachoma," said Millar, who is neglected tropical diseases operations director at Sightsavers.
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At this point, I've eaten at more than a few mind-numbingly fancy restaurants: places with Michelin-starred chefs, tasting menus longer than an essay, and tabs that could pay most people's rent.
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At a time when senseless shootings have become almost numbingly commonplace, and nationalism is dividing a nation, Mr. McDonagh's Inishmore is looking a lot more like the United States than it ever has before.
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Still, many scholars and legal experts argue that American copyright law, which is mind-numbingly complex, has skewed toward enriching companies and the heirs of writers and artists at the expense of the public.
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Ubiquitous and almost infinitely flexible, it's the perfect scapegoat, yet betrays not only a mind numbingly ill-informed reading of the Frankfurt School's output, but also a staggeringly stupid grasp of the historical process.
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Though this new regulatory architecture is eye-numbingly complex, its builders contend that it has made the financial system much safer without having to resort to measures like forcing a breakup of the largest banks.
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City council meetings are pretty mind-numbingly mundane events, but every once in a while, tempers flare, passions run hot, and a concerned citizen launches into a fervent speech about legalizing happy endings or whatever.
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Both the United States and Brazil – which together export 82 percent of the world's soybeans – produced mind-numbingly large crops in 2016/47.53, and soybean futures and market enthusiasm toward the oilseed have struggled ever since.
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Their work was often mind-numbingly tedious and frustrating as the women spent 12-hour days and seven-day weeks in steamy offices staring at incomprehensible columns of numbers and letters and trying to decipher patterns.
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We watch the plot unfold in a lulling series of domestic and small-town settings: The sisters fall in love, grieve loves lost, and commit a few murders and resurrections -- all with numbingly little self-reflection.
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George K. Yin Professor of Law and Taxation University of Virginia School of Law Charlottesville, Va. Even to news junkies with graduate degrees (like myself), the world of international finance is mind-numbingly complex and opaque.
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The imperative for the future leadership of the NDP and Conservative Party will be to look at those problems and figure out the most ambitious, broad, and mind-numbingly obvious solution, and then sell it to Canadians.
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Click here to view original GIFBaby sea turtles don't really need our help being adorable, but remarkably, scientists have figured out a way to make the tiny shelled reptiles even more mind-numbingly cute: by hypnotizing them.
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As the casualty count steadily climbed with updated news dispatches, I couldn't help but be mentally and emotionally transported back those thirty-five days to Las Vegas, Nevada, and that other mind-numbingly horrific slaughter of innocents.
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How glorious and fascinating it was: There was sweat, heavy breathing and hunched-over focus as he reckoned with two and a half hours of numbingly difficult music from throughout the 20th century, pausing only for intermission.
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LONDON — On a finger numbingly cold morning, Lara Maiklem swung open a metal gate tucked behind a pub in southeast London and scrambled down a set of slick stone steps onto the banks of the River Thames.
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Trump's victory held only a fraction of the lessons that it was said to, but it did reveal a hunger among many Americans for a kind of political discourse that wasn't so tightly circumscribed and numbingly polite.
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That's how many written questions the Texas senator submitted to the company following CEO Mark Zuckerberg's hours of Congressional testimony, and good lord were some of them were mind-numbingly stupid — including one abut a Taylor Swift song.
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It's that it's so mind-numbingly hard to imagine how to actually loosen the company's grip on our discourse, ad ecosystem, and our personal information that we often focus only on superficial or temporary ways to relieve it.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 34%What critics said: "There's howlingly awful and then there's 'The Assignment,' a thoroughly ridiculous, numbingly slow neo-noir thriller about a low-life hit man forcibly given gender reassignment surgery by a vengeful doctor.
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The case is also numbingly complex, involving competing claims about arcane "proxy costs" — theoretical calculations of the expenses the company would be likely to incur when stringent government regulations kick in to limit the emissions of climate-altering compounds.
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The sequel to the favorably reviewed 2014 Godzilla (and the latest entry in a long and storied litany of films about the kind of lizard-like monster) lurches back and forth from kaiju-battle spectacle to brain-numbingly dull human drama.
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Its director was frequently absent from the set, its script is mind-numbingly blasé, its characters outside Mercury and his common-law wife are barely sketched-in, and the music itself is often used in the film to the music's detriment.
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Home to 14.5 million people, Chengdu is famous for its giant panda reserve, its mouth-numbingly spicy cuisine, and, increasingly, its underground hip-hop scene, which revolves around a collective called the Chengdu Shuochang Huiguan, or CDC, founded in 2008.
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It does prepare them for challenges they may face as professionals, from pointless nudity to mind-numbingly affected monologues; if there is a life lesson to be gained from watching a steady stream of audience members walk out, they've learned it now.
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President Trump's outrages, absurdities and indelicacies arrive with such frequency that they numbingly blur together, and to focus and comment on each is to give him too much of what he thrives on — attention — and be debilitated by his dominance of your thoughts and passions.
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Trump's dismissal of Carroll's allegation is numbingly rote by now: "it never happened;" he never met her (a lie, given a published photograph which he appears with her and his ex-wife, Ivana Trump, who similarly described his violently coercing her into having sex while they were married).
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But whatever the reason — naiveté, excessive focus on near-term profits or simply a lack of proper attention on mind-numbingly complex problems — it's clear they have to do a better job of making sure technology makes our world safer, freer and more stable rather than the opposite.
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While much of the Islamist terrorist activity online has migrated to alternative, end-to-end encryption platforms such as Telegram, the ability to still find treasure troves of terrorist content on the largest platforms in the world, in Arabic, the fastest growing language of social media, is mind-numbingly confounding.
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Thankfully, one bar located in the British city of St Albans has taken it upon itself to ensure that your mind-numbingly horrific date ends with you safely arriving home, upon which you can happily spend the rest of the night swimming in an industrial vat of ice cream, Scrooge McDuck-style.
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Chan is perfectly fine as a man who feels he has nothing to lose ("I have no more family," he laments early on), but his hollowed-out gaze and "Death Wish"-style crusade can't compensate for how numbingly thin this all is, stringing together just enough plot to justify the eruptions of violence.
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Allegations of the Silicon Valley elite creating untenable environments for—or outright harassing—their workforces have become numbingly commonplace: Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, Thinx CEO Miki Agrawl, investors Chris Sacca and Dave McClure, and Binary Capital co-founder Justin Caldbeck are just a fraction of those in the broader tech industry alleged to have acted inappropriately in recent memory.
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Aside from one of the most contentious and mind-numbingly baffling election cycles in recent memory, 2016 could very well go down in the annals of history as the year in which the scourge of malevolence that are creepy clowns finally went one step too far and a coalition of good was formed to halt their reign of skulduggery.
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With mind-numbingly repetitive regularity, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's critics can be counted on to denounce his every move.
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I had already prepared myself to hate a chunk where Carlin talks about fictional restaurant and bar names, a mind-numbingly common premise now (an open mic game: drink every time you hear a "Pho" pun), but his suggestion that TGI Fridays could sell more drinks if they changed their name to "Holy Shit It's Only Wednesday" made me laugh out loud.
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While another secretary of state overseeing his own election for governor, Kobach's Georgia ally Brian Kemp, had been garnering scrutiny for months with his massive "purges" of registered black voters, and while reports on the perils of voter ID laws have become numbingly familiar, the Dodge City tale offered a colorful twist on the theme of race-based voter suppression.
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Just as any given match in men's sport can be mind-numbingly boring, women's sport can be just as heart-stopping as the very best men can offer: This year the National Football League's Super Bowl finished 13-3 — an absolute snoozer (with only one underwhelming touchdown), widely panned, despite its designation as the manliest of manly sports in the United States.
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This is such a mind-numbingly simple concept, and yet it is only in the past year -- with the dismissals of Patrick Witty and Bill Frakes, and now the allegations against photographers Antonin Kratochvil and Christian Rodriguez (which both deny) in the CJR piece, alongside allusions to half a dozen other unnamed men -- that we have begun to truly see these behaviors recognized as toxic.
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Devising new ways of killing people is now so familiar it's taken for granted: the practice is common in popular procedural television shows like CSI or Criminal Minds, which sustain viewer interest through their outlandish murders; the seemingly endless Saw franchise featured an escalation of violent mutilation until it became mind-numbingly boring; the torture-porn genre continues the grindhouse legacy of offending viewers and challenging what you can show on screen.
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