A lot of what we're hearing today is quite repetitious.
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The pictures — casual, artless and repetitious — are images within images.
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Like many people with mental problems, Mark tended to be repetitious.
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Afghanistan's naming convention, on the other hand, is fluid and repetitious.
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"So far as it strikes me is very repetitious," Republican Sen.
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Its repetitious address chimes with its subject's views on geography and belonging.
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Facebook's response is repetitious in emphasizing that users themselves self-reported the data.
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Fleming succeeds only in making their struggles repetitious and lacking in human warmth.
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This was consonant, repetitious music, major and balladic in tone, but not form.
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Tuning out the repetitious stuff means being better able to process new inputs.
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It's frequently repetitious, with video clips shown multiple times to pad out an episode.
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The music can become repetitious, but with [generative music] you're already breaking that cycle.
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His melodies are direct and often plangent, his harmonies and rhythms sturdy and repetitious.
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We know the man gets apoplectic and repetitious about one thing above all else: disloyalty.
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Something about The Strokes' sparse, repetitious guitar riffs beneath Christina's seductive, syrupy vocals felt serendipitous.
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They are losing their relevance and their resonance, in part from repetitious, almost ritualistic invocation.
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Unfortunately, too much of today's media wallow in the familiar, the repetitious or the simplistic.
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The brawling may be old-school and repetitious, for instance, but it's also deep and addictive.
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An essay, "Novelists' Stock Phrases," deplored the use of repetitious clichés in place of original ideas.
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The notion of devoting your life to it is horrifying, if only because it's so repetitious.
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Mr. Bärtsch, a Swiss pianist, makes repetitious, accrual-based music of clean power and firm insistence.
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Do we really want to read repetitious discussions about his cigarette consumption and poker-playing habits?
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Steadily morphing like the poppies' blooms, these repetitious works displayed nature's steadfast presence — beauty despite surrounding conflict.
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Even at the risk of a certain amount of repetitious boredom, "Reservoir 13" is nothing like this.
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In stop-and-go freeway traffic, the engine will most likely remain running to avoid repetitious, annoying restarts.
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"Well, at the risk of being repetitious, I'm looking for something that President Trump supports," McConnell told reporters.
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The Ballet's choreography, though sometimes repetitious, is up to Wheeldon's usual standard—the ensemble work is especially good.
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In line with a surreal atmosphere of repetitious argument, the protest was not even about Brexit, but climate change.
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The resemblance of each chapter to the next — intense memories, followed by death — should feel repetitious, but it doesn't.
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Well, then it errs just a little too much on the side of cliched teenage poetry and repetitious acoustic riff.
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But it's fast food, where the bulk of the jobs are low-skilled and highly repetitious, that may be most vulnerable.
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Instead, they work with your brain's natural tendency to mostly notice new or variable sounds while tuning out steady, repetitious noise.
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If you're a laborer or a builder, if you've done heavy lifting or repetitious work, you may well want to stop.
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I love repetitious music and I tend to read the same books and watch the same movies over and over again.
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These interviews with teenage girls can be insightful, disturbing and revealing, but they are also repetitious and in dire need of editing.
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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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Yet sex is about as repetitious as it gets, a binary pattern of in-out-in-out, like breathing with your genitals.
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For me, something that is ugly is unrefined, repetitious, squalid, simple, not like a country ballad but an amateur version of noise music.
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In "Islands: Non-Places," artist and animator Carl Burton examines the liminal quality of these repetitious spaces in an interactive series of vignettes.
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The first phase of Foxconn's automation plans involve replacing the work that is either dangerous or involves repetitious labor humans are unwilling to do.
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Or a deeper question: How might they go about taking only the repetitious boring stuff, the seemingly forgettable, and crafting meaningful abstractions from it?
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From personal, clitoral, and g-spot orgasms, to the repetitious fucking of hulking gods, the hidden power of our sex lives is still illuminating.
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Potvin further described that the alchemic interaction between light, LEDs, and lasers is best suited to the repetitious nature of the aforementioned techno institutions.
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A doyen of spiritual jazz, Mr. Sanders is known for his mantralike compositions, often featuring no more than two chords and a repetitious theme.
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"Handel presents directors with a lot of challenges because da capo arias can be seen as repetitious — no plot, all emotion," Mr. Costanzo said.
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What we're witnessing has no recent precedent, and yet the situation is unfolding in such a way as to make most descriptions of it repetitious.
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Audiences thrilled to the way Senna pushed toward the finish line with greater and greater speed; they marveled at the repetitious technical precision of Zidane.
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These passages sometimes devolve into labored imitations of Céline — so willfully perverse and repetitious that they gradually lose their shock value, becoming gratuitously stomach-turning.
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Today's speculative realist critics (at least those with no stake in the art market) may well bash Vautier's repetitious production of recognizable and salable physical artifacts.
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Many videos are just a series of repetitious graphical scenarios designed to combine the culled characters in a mindless set of keyword searchable actions and reactions.
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The internal glow of the piece, heightened by candles, illuminates the room, while soft, repetitious tones play in subtle variations, enhancing the venerated hush of the space.
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This is a game that can take upward of 100 hours to complete, much of which is spent grinding through repetitious battles and fiddling about in menus.
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I decided to not write a note last week because I feared being repetitious when it came to this week's missive in terms of my cautious stance.
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Without exactly being repetitious, he makes this story longer than it has to be; he's terrific with short fiction, as his collection, "Ford County," made so clear.
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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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When another model floated past in an all-silver get-up, Ms. Karen said the outfit represented "repetitious wardrobe complex," the tendency to use clothes for emotional comfort.
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The rejection letters usually include wording like, "We're not sure we're ever going to like this theme...." It's not that the vocabulary isn't clean, it's just so repetitious.
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He cracked forehands from a sturdy crouch, his swing full and flowing, the ball cannoning down the sidewall to expire in the back corner, repetitious as a gif.
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Through the deployment of bounteous ornament and repeating linear motifs, Maghreb jewelry expresses the pulsations and throbs of our human heartbeats and repetitious breaths, of our copulating rhythms.
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Within environmental and sustainability circles — and importantly, these are not the same — there is an uncomfortable realization that sustainability has been trapped in the old box of repetitious voices.
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The program may be inane — repetitious and so on — but there at least she is, one mother about whom my son does not assume 'she spends the day shopping.
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On the one hand, he got me interested in the region, the conflict, and the history—and on the other, he bored me, because the stories were quite repetitious.
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Never seen from the inside out, Lenny remains the sum of his loud and repetitious behaviors, and, as with Hoffman himself, a little of him goes a long way.
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But on Monday, Mr. Rubio, the Florida Republican, who has been under relentless criticism for uttering his talking points over and over in Saturday's presidential debate, had another repetitious lapse.
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The resultant losses in maximum force and power output were offset by gains in endurance and the ability to perform repetitious, low-energy movements (such as fashioning stones into tools).
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If there's truly even a mote of educational value there it must be weighed against the obvious negative of repetitious product placement simultaneously and directly promoting junk food to kids.
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The litany of imbalances sounds repetitious only because gender inequality repeats itself daily, while the latest headline-making abuses are discussed as if fantastic plot twists in an outrageous soap.
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The point that these loves — for a garden, for a devoted pet — represent the sum total of her happiness is swiftly made, so further mentions of them soon feel repetitious.
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With these apps, Cheng's design outfit Pauseable is trying to create the effect of simple meditation without the intense instruction and repetitious practice that makes modern mindfulness apps feel like chores.
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Maybe this is just the beginning of a new era of TV. Reality shows have hit a repetitious rut; what could shock their jaded audience awake faster than actual gladiatorial combat?
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Although it was easy to mock the repetitious and unpolished style of his campaign rhetoric, it gave voters a menu of ideas that very much defined what his movement was about.
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The repetitious faces are a stark contrast to the first room that overwhelmed the space with identity, and the fierce black marks express a kind of rugged anger at the world.
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Millions of people have seen their day-to-day become more about the repetitious rhythms of their employment, rather than the lure of adventure and fulfillment promised to them in their youth.
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Millions of people have seen their day-to-day become more about the repetitious rhythms of their employment, rather than the lure of adventure and fulfillment promised to them in their youth.
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There are many hours of patient habituation and repetitious work with glove and lure that form a bond between bird and human: The bird is training you, master falconers like to say.
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As such, it is at once a weak and a heavy-handed one, alternating between redundant battle scenes and unnecessarily repetitious conversations in which characters grapple with the why of Pits's heroism.
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A real-life literary couple gets a fictional wedding, courtesy of the playwright and director Edward Einhorn, who maps Stein and Toklas's relationship in an approximation of Stein's swirling, repetitious prose style.
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"Just Drift" is the closest thing Sanguine Bond has to a hands-in-the-air anthem, that's still downcast and repetitious, seemingly designed, as its title suggests, for zoning rather than dancefloor abandon.
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It found that corporate reports are, indeed, repetitious, but when the language in the current text varies a great deal from previous versions, it frequently signals trouble that will become evident several months later.
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But as a story, it's hard to get your arms around — sprawling and repetitious, dependent on arcane particulars of physics and engineering, marked by failures to act and by large-scale action that accomplishes nothing.
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Most Maghreb jewelry, by suggestively emulating nature's cycles and rhythmic movements, propounds something of the repetitious cadences observed in our own intertwining movements when we engage in the pleasurable activities of music, dance, and libidinousness.
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But the creative use of new technology sits alongside a genuine desire to return to analogue tools, evident in the delicate watercolors of Pezo von Ellrichshausen's Finite Format 04, an obsessive, repetitious compendium of formal variations.
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" This is pure Southern party rap, a raucous blend of the repetitious magic of New Orleans bounce and Miami bass with the laconic swagger that T.I. was bringing out of Atlanta with songs like "Rubber Band Man.
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"I had this idea of recording meditation tapes for those locked inside but wanted it to make sense and recalled how loops, namely repetitious hip-hop beats, would affect me in a trance-like way," he says.
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I wonder if we think that's a problem with the nominating process or with the movie industry itself, which is now polarized between yuge repetitious blockbusters and small films pitched to niche audiences and the awards circuit.
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You can only wonder how long it will take the boy who began watching porn on his cellphone as a ninth grader to find eventually repetitious sex with the same someone a poor use of his time.
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Each album in the continuing "Coin Coin" suite has a different sonic identity, but they are typically characterized by a mix of spoken word (often from the perspective of Roberts's relatives), free jazz and hauntingly beautiful, repetitious melodies.
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This gives each performance a totally improvisational vibe, shirking any and all convention with respect to melody, harmony, and rhythm, but the end result can sometimes feel overly drawn out, abstract, repetitious, and somehow too experimental for my taste.
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By putting "Vive la liberté I" in a state of suspended collapse, Tinguely seems to reject the idea that repetitious but free life is opposed to a life of slavery, as expressed by joining the loose cog with a lashing whip.
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The long quotes grow rambling and repetitious, and the chapter on what may have been the first dinner where each course was cooked by a different famous American chef proves only that such events were no more interesting then than they are now.
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The idea is that every method of generating composite images emphasizes some feature of the repetitious event being documented (family dinners, in the group's experiments): what changes, what stays the same, what constitute habits, what people are there, what postures and actions are taken.
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Try TV as a teacher Mashable's Brittany Levine Beckman swears by melodramatic telenovelas to learn Spanish, adding that listening rather than reading helps you pick things up quickly, and the pained facial expressions, overt emotions, and repetitious plots all work towards helping you understand.
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Long term, Mr. Siegel would still like to escape samsara, the repetitious entanglement of birth and rebirth in the material world, and live in a state of transcendental bliss with Lord Krishna in a far corner of the universe known as the Vaikuntha planets.
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You may not know exactly what you feel when you reach the end (the repetitious motifs are as hypnotic as the variations in image and expression are disruptive) but you will undoubtedly feel as if you were taken somewhere you didn't expect to go.
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In fact, with continuous improvement in true learning, first-tier support positions and more dangerous jobs (such as truck driving) will be completely taken over by robotics, leading to a new Industrial Revolution where humans will be freed up to solve problems instead of doing repetitious business processes.
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" When the two films were shown together at the New York Film Festival, Vincent Canby of The Times wrote that the evening was "rather more brimful of Mekases than one might ordinarily seek out, yet it's also successively moving, indulgent, beautiful, poetic, banal, repetitious and bravely, heedlessly personal.
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But "Steps in the Street," revised in 1989 and a knockout when I first watched it in 1990, has lost much of its force in revivals this century (the dynamic excitement is diluted); and without that element it dwindles into a collage of repetitious expressionistic effects, alternately posey and pounding.
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The blues style — based on a pentatonic scale with an African-derived blue note, and generally following a loose, repetitious form — was such a natural fit for her that at one point she said she had invented the term "blues," although most historians consider that claim to be an exaggeration.
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The book, written by a gay, nonbelieving French journalist, Frédéric Martel, makes a simple argument in a florid, repetitious style: The prevalence of gay liaisons in the Vatican means that clerical celibacy is a failure and a fraud, as unnatural and damaging as an earlier moral consensus believed homosexuality to be.
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Rejecting the nascent women's-liberation movement, she nevertheless blamed sexism for the G.O.P.'s failure to fully embrace its most strenuous conservatives: The Republican Party is carried on the shoulders of the women who do the work in the precincts, ringing doorbells, distributing literature, and doing all the tiresome, repetitious campaign tasks.
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Its basic structure is rather repetitious — most chapters consist of a passage of historical rumination on the history of Delhi, followed by an account of an interview with one of the protagonists of its recent transformation, a member of the nouveaux riches who've imposed their character on the capital despite their miniscule numbers.
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Creators have noticed an uptick in channels being demonetized for having videos that are considered "repetitious content," which YouTube's monetization team has referred to as "content that appears mass-produced in order to increase views without adding significant educational or other value," according to creators who have posted about the issue on YouTube's product forums.
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Many of the subjects were recruited from refugee camps within Germany, hired by the artist to play out these mundane tasks, which metaphorically indicate the repetitious and precarious nature of their existence — a reality that remains as visceral for the thousands of Syrian refugees in Germany today, as it did over a decade ago when Rosefeldt created the piece.
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Beneath the show's poetic, occasionally repetitious narration (there are only so many times we can hear Addy brood, in voice-over, about the fact that people have shadows and wear masks), there's a clear-eyed examination of a small town full of dangerously bored kids, partying in the woods, soft targets for coaches and military recruiters who offer them a ticket out of the busted local economy.
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With cultural roots in the skinhead movement (though a separate strain than that which is associated with White Power politics), Northern Soul dance parties allowed workers to throw off the shackles of their repetitious work week, as cogs in the industrial machine, with all-night dance parties fueled by amphetamines and a particular type of music that coalesced in the wake of the Motown sound.
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" At the height of his fame in the 1940s and '50s, Algren did not want for admirers — foremost among them Ernest Hemingway, who confided to his editor that Algren's second novel, "Never Come Morning" (which had raised the ire of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America for its "unsavory description" of Polish life in Chicago), was "as fine and good stuff to come out of Chicago" as James T. Farrell "is flat, repetitious and worthless.
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EditorsNote: 3rd graf, take out repetitious 'go-ahead' ... 12th graf, change Malcom to Malcolm; 12th-13th grafs, changes to clock references Stymied for much of the second half after a 35-point first half, Drew Brees connected with Michael Thomas for a 353-yard touchdown with 3:52 left, his fourth touchdown pass of the game, to lift the host New Orleans Saints to a 45-35 victory Sunday over the previously unbeaten Los Angeles Rams.
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Jones, too, expanded the field of vision to include his pioneering mix of athleisure items that were as wearable as they were covetable, an effort that culminated in 2017's Supreme and Louis Vuitton collection — a marriage of French luxury to "the Louis Vuitton of street wear," as the New York skate label is often called — that revealed both the power of a repetitious logo and how the desire for both brands was heightened by well-timed scarcity.
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Under the guidance of the showrunner Bruce Miller, the TV series did a brilliant job in Season 1 of translating the novel to the screen, but in generating new story lines for Seasons 33 and 3, the show's writers have subjected Offred (played by the gifted Elisabeth Moss) to a wearisome "Groundhog Day" loop of tribulations, including several failed escape attempts, repetitious, soap-opera confrontations with Serena and Aunt Lydia and more and more preposterous situations calling for bad-ass heroics.
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