Just because, I've personally been stuck in job ruts or life ruts for years of my life.
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"These fell into depressions and ruts in the road," notes
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It's never run when you're going through ruts like this.
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Rather than themes, these repetitions start to feel like ruts.
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Ruts pocked the permafrost gravel road, scars from dark brutal winters.
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Water lay everywhere, gathering in ruts and turning the forest into swamp.
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As spontaneous as you might be, even you get stuck in ruts sometimes.
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Exciting news arrives and you'll break out of any ruts you've been in.
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"These ruts are tough things you get into," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
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The mosquitoes typically lay their eggs in dirty water, ditches and shallow ruts.
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" He added, "Kim is breaking North Korea out of some of its ruts.
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History, especially the history of controversial conflicts, tends to get stuck in ruts.
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"A [person addicted to cocaine] often falls into severe depressive ruts," confirms Biester.
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We sat between the twin ruts of a Sno-Cat trail and debriefed.
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Now, The Simpsons has always embraced the inherent hilarity of humanity's self-destructive ruts.
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Tanks created ruts in the ground by driving through the wet fields and forest.
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It was steep, wet and cratered with those deep ruts the trucks had made.
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Circling at high speed, they ripped up the now-thin surface, creating deep ruts.
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Where Resolution was more obviously a meta-story about the act of storytelling (especially horror storytelling, and horror-movie storytelling), The Endless instead focuses on repetition, the way people get into ruts, and the stories they tell themselves to justify those ruts.
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Be sure not to get stuck in any ruts and try to be open-minded.
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Plus, the Rodeo comes with longer-travel suspension that's perfect for tackling roots and ruts.
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And, to be sure, there are adolescents (and adults) who get stuck in worrisome ruts.
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Challenge the part of you that gets stuck in ruts—you will be pleasantly surprised.
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I've been in ruts before and you just have to take it for what it's worth.
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I've been running for years, and like anyone else, my progress has confronted ruts and plateaus.
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The great thing about ruts, though, is that you can climb your way out of them.
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You argue that Chinese philosophy views rituals as tools that can liberate us from these ruts.
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Zen is full of stories about ancient masters trying to jolt their apprentices from mental ruts.
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I aimed for puddles, muddy ruts, and small streams with childlike abandon while out on my runs.
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Instead of feeling stuck in familiar ruts, I felt productive, open and willing to try new things.
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Joyce has just had her road repaved, apparently by a historic preservationist, because the ruts remain intact.
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Across the empty prairie, driving carefully in and out of the ruts, it approached with antlike slowness.
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While those two remained in their respective ruts, Tracy made plans to move up in the world.
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The deep ruts and rocky paths at Lake Mburo sent Julia and me into low-speed spills.
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The ruts he continually found himself in were unacceptable for a man in his 50s, Mr. Nin said.
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It's not just a lack of focus; over the course of a season, you're going to have ruts.
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A set of high-performance, long-travel Fox shocks means the Raptor tackles bumps and ruts with ease.
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That gives Mr. Peck room to impose his own structure but not much help in escaping creative ruts.
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Pictures published in Rio newspapers showed seats missing and the turf dry, worn and filled with ruts and holes.
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But what if we're, on the contrary, messy selves that tend to fall into ruts and patterns of behavior?
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But an artist like me, in his second decade of making records, better not get stuck in any ruts.
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One is about trying to keep this long-running but still successful show from falling into familiar, brutal ruts.
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The historic Post Road was now cluttered with "rocks, ruts, and thank-you-marms" (large bumps), wrote one contemporary.
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It is her physical performance that digs the show out of narrative ruts and sells its most unconvincing twists.
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Inches-deep ruts are common, as are potholes and fissures running parallel to faded white lines between the lanes.
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With every risk she takes, she inspires us all to break out of our own ruts and try something new.
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Tallgrass's Pony Express line kicks off in Guernsey, Wyoming, a small town of 1,000 near the historic Oregon Trail Ruts.
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These are challenging to cut precisely if he drives over bumps and ruts in the mower, which disrupt the GPS.
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On public roads, the front tires keep your hands busy as they chase ruts and ridges in the pavement, too.
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Down with dour, plodding stories that get stuck in the same style and tone ruts for seasons at a time.
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Not only do you risk slipping while mowing after a rainstorm, but mowing on a sodden lawn can leave unsightly ruts.
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Today, in a world full of soft wheels and hard roads, only metaphorical ruts remain, a reminder of an earlier time.
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The four protagonists are women in their 70s who are stuck in personal and professional ruts, variously bereaved, lonely or regretful.
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Such ruts are hard to spot in real time, and there may well be net value in a Facebook-like network.
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Finding and preventing ruts like these is important to creating a game-playing agent that can beat resourceful and observant humans.
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They were mostly dated humor that echoed his past jokes, fell into well-worn, familiar ruts, or took on unworthy targets.
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The leaves were blazing and falling as he walked to the house; they'd already filled the ruts his truck had made.
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The goal should rather be to break these patterns and ruts, to train ourselves to interact better with those around us.
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Work ruts are common, and it can help to find a trusted adviser to get some feedback and career growth tips.
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And robots might help couples break out of sex ruts by adding spice to their relationship or maintaining long-distance romances.
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The pickup stepped wheel by wheel through the complicated red-dirt ruts or sped on improved county-road straightaways, tossing up gravel.
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At the time, the town had no central plumbing and only intermittent electricity, and the roads were a patchwork of muddy ruts.
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The 22-year-old trailed after the first run, but powered through a course filled with ruts to quickly make up time.
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Now she's sharing that wisdom with other women to inspire them to get out of their own ruts and embrace who they are.
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They played too slow or too fast, they turned the ball over too often, their defense lagged, and their offense fell into ruts.
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Because you're so "wacky" and "weird" it's not mentioned by astrologers how often you can actually get caught in ruts—but it's true.
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And in a series full of stand-stills and ruts, Emily Gilmore stands out as the only one who truly comes into her own.
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As fun as it is when you're playing like we did last July and August, it's equally painful to go through ruts like this.
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Accepting that an "old" mind goes brittle and slow, develops holes in one's memory, settles into its ruts of ruminative repetition... and so on.
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Along an empty stretch of paved road, I passed wheel ruts leading off to the right, toward a horse-head well in the distance.
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The trucks were too large to maneuver through ruts in the dirt roads and too heavy for the wooden planks that served as bridges.
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The bulldozers have carved up numerous paved mountain roads, their metal tracks leaving ruts that will shake passenger vehicles for some time to come.
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He points to the sloping surface of Zimmerman Street, a block pockmarked by craters and deep ruts that never seem to be fully fixed.
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Many people, it seems, are turning to hypnosis to tackle wellness and beauty issues like weight loss, fitness ruts, smoking addictions, insomnia and more.
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Ahead, we've compiled a list of solutions to common hair ruts — from the same old, same old wash-and-go to the ultimate ponytail fix.
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But boy was that pedal-assist useful as soon as I hit my first steep incline, or when climbing out of deep ruts and ditches.
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But it fell into stagnant neo-Minimalist ruts, at times recalling the "Requiem for a Dream" soundtrack in its moody — not to say overwrought — intensity.
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Colossal doesn't try to make perfect sense, opting instead to be a funny, smart parable about trying to wriggle loose of old relationships and ruts.
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The land had become an unofficial but well-known spot for off-roading and four-wheeling, and trucks had dug deep ruts into the mud.
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If carefully administered, they say, hallucinogens can reorient patients' perceptions of their place in the universe and pull them out of ruts of negative thinking.
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During these so-called ruts, the males are judged by females based on who has the best area of grass and makes the most obnoxious noises.
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I never saw them, only signs that they were there: deep ruts and broken ground on woodland paths and grassy roadsides where they had rooted for food.
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Bay tacxico rigor rubbing outset hapbel queer carun kiakiha cheek vine chain notion, ruts who peyon toxic anger catch Beat tan fon reshuffle rugged helical tone torture ……….
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I stumbled through plow ruts and tried to keep to the very edge of the fields, so as not to disturb seedbeds or crops already heading out.
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Scorpio is a fixed sign, which means you possess stamina and the will to persevere, but there is also potential for getting stuck in deep emotional ruts.
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While we were in Mississippi on Highway 61, I looked down for a second to change my iPod and hit one of the deep ruts on the road.
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When the performers move, they often seem stuck in ruts, teetering or twitching in states of insecurity, locked into tiny zones of space with small spasms and tics.
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Here, perhaps more than elsewhere, we see the elements of Cold War revanchism: the tired tropes on repeat, deepening the mental ruts on both sides of the deepening trenches.
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A pair of teams that have fallen into ruts both offensively and in the win column will square off Thursday night when the Boston Bruins host the Carolina Hurricanes.
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They see it not as a threatening interloper, but as a potential collaborator that can get them out of their usual ruts and spur them to think in new directions.
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Basically, the dumb bot's erratic behavior shook the humans out of their ruts and coaxed them toward more creative solutions, according to the study published today in the journal Nature.
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Several days later, at 7:30 one September morning, he bumped down the road in his decrepit Maruti Gypsy jeep, its suspension squeaking as it hit ruts in the road.
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"Research shows that couples who communicate well with each other are better able to navigate sex ruts so their happiness and satisfaction aren't seriously affected," said sex researcher Kristen Mark.
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Aquarians are never afraid to do their own thing, but as a fixed sign (meaning you were born in the middle of a season), you can get stuck in ruts.
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In two dark bronze reliefs named "Witch" and "Pilates" she drags little stones or clumps of bronze down the surface, creating deep ruts and leaving the forming implements in place.
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They also just don't seem to get caught in ruts the way the Emmys do, and instead have recognized teen dramas, streaming platforms, and supernatural-themed shows over stodgy old favorites.
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Sergeant Anderson barreled down a winding trail, punching the JLTV's bullet-resistant tires through deep, sandy ruts and dancing over rocks at speeds that would have rattled a Humvee to pieces.
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Generations of them have worn ruts in the floor and holes in their souls trudging the low corridors of the Long Island Rail Road concourse, whose ceilings gush when it rains.
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Not only do the hogs pose a danger to humans, Joel Robbins said, but they dig up land looking for food, leaving ruts that can break a cow's or horse's leg.
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And the ground is where we find him, in 1939, hacking out ruts in the stubborn soil with a pickaxe, as he helps to lay pipe for the Bison Oil company.
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Ray argues that rather than sending new films down well-worn lucrative ruts, more data will free up producers to pick up interesting scripts that might not immediately seem commercially promising.
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Both his duets and his larger ensembles become stuck in ruts; Mr. Millepied's idea of a same-sex relationship is a lot less differentiated than Graham's of an opposite-sex one.
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And the meandering flow of the plot feels appropriate for the beginning of the silly season, when thoughts turn to fantasies of flight and contemplation of the ruts we're stuck in.
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Compounds in shrooms, LSD, and ketamine, among other drugs, have been shown to help people to dig themselves out of the habitual ruts that can make some mental illnesses so intractable.
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Just like the hair ruts we all fall into every once in a while, Pine too was experiencing a bit of hair fatigue and made the beauty decision out of pure boredom.
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I mentioned in a recent piece how easily I fall into reading ruts when I feel pressured to read what's trendy, either by friends or some omniscient embodiment of the literary community.
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But nearly all of the competitors, including Kia Sportage, Fiat 500X, Acura RDX and Ford Explorer slogged through the mud, ruts and grades without breaking a sweat (or more important, suspension arms).
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It lets users check on food status or reorder frequent items, like, say, "order my usual pizza," for those of us who are perfectly fine with the food related ruts we've dug ourselves into.
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I looked out over that long hood, The "Spirit of Ecstasy" statuette out at the very end balanced on her tiny silver toes as the big SUV rocked and bobbed over ruts and boulders.
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Mr. Sacheri's first book, "Waiting for Tito," is a collection of stories that tap into how soccer often permeates the ruts and peaks of Argentine life, from boyhood to family traditions, and even death.
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A few clicks on a tablet were all that were needed to orient the robot at the start of the row before it took off, squeaking slightly as it drove over ruts in the field.
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She has precise silver-gray bangs and wears thick rectangular glasses; thin, clear creases ("smile-ruts," she calls them) run from the corners of her nose to the sides of her wide, thin-lipped mouth.
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Programs like that, she said, combined with a low cost of living and investment in community colleges to create qualified workers, can give smaller cities like Dayton the means to break out of demographic ruts.
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They excelled at hybrids and experimenting with materials, exemplified by the performative paintings that Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) made with his feet, usually while suspended from a swing, achieving extravagant ridges and ruts of swirling paint.
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Biologist Richard Estes, the world's foremost expert on wildebeests and author of The Gnu's World, has apparently seen ruts in which bulls get so worked up fighting each other for territory that they forget the females entirely.
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Gray, who has a 5.85 E.R.A. and has failed to last five innings in seven of his 17 starts, said he has worked his way out of ruts in Oakland, where he was traded from last July.
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For by so doing we should merge our identity in yours; follow and repeat and score still deeper the old worn ruts in which society, like a gramophone whose needle has stuck, is grinding out with intolerable unanimity.
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The field must withstand the many walk-throughs and rehearsals for the pregame and halftime shows, which include not only hundreds of performers but also tons of heavy equipment, some of which is on wheels and can create ruts.
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The book's family-get-together plot tosses Arthur Alter and his two adult children a chance — possibly their last — to escape their individual ruts of inherited grief, guilt and misguided attempts at altruism, finally connect with one another and move on.
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In addition to the canvas—to roll out and lay under the wheels to allow the car to traverse the most inhospitable tracts of soft sand—Fetch took along a pick and shovel and log chains to get the car through ruts.
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But officials within the Fish and Wildlife Service, a division of the Interior Department, say there are no roads inside the wilderness section of the refuge, only a few old ruts or paths from World War II where motorized vehicles are not allowed.
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Looking back 20 years to the passage of historic welfare reforms, it's troubling to see how far we've strayed from our original vision, and how often welfare recipients, despite their best efforts, are still stuck in the same ruts of dependency and poverty.
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"We highly suggest you have a high-clearance, four-wheel-drive vehicle, and that's neither," park employee Kristi Haynie told a couple in front of us who wanted to know if they could navigate the rocks and ruts in their station wagon.
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Never having lived more than shouting distance from the East Coast, I had little sense of this history or of the "torrent of humanity," as a National Park Service brochure puts it, that followed trails with wheel ruts still visible across the West.
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The thorny verisimilitude of "Two Black Women and a White Man" is also distinctly American — a brass-tacks description of the human body's swells, ruts, bumps, and hollows that flows from Social Realism, American Regionalism, and the latter-day traditions of funky, Guston-esque caricature.
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Over dinner at 101 Main St., we made small talk with the next table over, where a woman from San Diego who had grown up in the area told us she was revisiting her "ruts," a pronunciation of roots that reminded me of my grandmother.
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A single twist of the Configurable Terrain Response control adjusts functions like ride height, transmission shifts, throttle response and braking to make it easy to adapt to situations where a driver might need to cope with deep ruts, heavy snow, slick rocks – or the highway.
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To reach the bleak steel entry wall — at the southernmost corner of the continental United States — musicians lugged instruments a mile and a half from a parking lot, astride tire ruts of United States Border Patrol vehicles in the sands of Imperial Beach along the Pacific Ocean.
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But still, this is meant to be a bike for racing through the rough stuff, so to put it through its paces, I took it on a tour of east Brooklyn's worst roads, including about 15 miles of riding in high-speed traffic over ruts and cracks and gaps and speedbump-sized bumps.
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The main fault of "Exodus" is that it gets stuck in several ruts, but its exposition of hip-hop style has many stylistic marvels, while Mr. Roberts, in its messianic central role, often creates a visionary drama with his skilled control of slow motion and his gentle-giant interactions with other characters.
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"Motocross is about improvisation — you have to react to unexpected holes and ruts — which most of the guys who've always been riding on a flat surface don't really learn," said Emilio Alzamora, a former Spanish champion who spotted the talents of a 12-year-old Márquez and has been his manager since.
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But 70s punk often linked arms with reggae, with white acts like The Ruts, The Members, and the Clash and gleaning inspiration from the likes of Misty in Roots and Steel Pulse—or, in the case of The Slits, having an entire album produced by a dub soundsystem legend like Dennis Bovell.
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Home cooks can all get stuck in our own ruts of stir-fry, pastas, or taco night, but by providing everything you need for a recipe, these kits can get you to cook something you've never tried before or teach you a new technique in a way that leaves cookbooks or website recipes in the dust.
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To be sure, you could see hints of this peeking through in the sad resignation of Before Midnight (where Jesse and Celine seem to realize that even the best relationships eventually enter ruts), or in the way that Boyhood looks back on both childhood and child rearing (indeed, one of the major characters is played by Linklater's own daughter, who also grew up on camera).
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