I want to speak to you not through the wearisome Machine.
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But I didn't want my hobby to turn into a wearisome job.
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Fans don't want to throw money at ageing fighters for wearisome defensive contests.
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That helps bring in foreign buyers who do not fancy the wearisome drive from Lahore.
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But after a long, wearisome year, don't we all deserve the beauty of Zac Efron's abs?
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Photo by William Bond On the other end of the line, I can sense producer AraabMuzik growing wearisome.
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Sending down plodding balls for hours with no lateral movement to beat the bat can be a wearisome task.
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This formulaic repetition of revolutionary rhetoric — a bit wearisome even to this sympathetic reader — has, admittedly, an organic function.
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I recognize and respect your deliberate approach to navigating these fraught times, but this relentless subtlety has become wearisome.
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This bulging, precarious load is part of our collective memory of deprivation, connoting wearisome toil, hasty migration or both.
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When those troubles involve thousands upon thousands of people hurling the proverbial mud, though, it can get a bit wearisome.
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Other than the increasingly wearisome details of the couple's home improvements, the audience learns too little else of their life together.
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The politicking is bad and the campaigning is wearisome, and I'll be so glad when it's all over for the year.
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But it does get wearisome after that 1,000th time at the gas pump when the dude next to you rolls out the interrogation.
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Ms. Delpy's salty riffs on indulgent parenting and midlife insecurities are draped over wearisome farcical situations that fall short of her past work.
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And indeed, over the course of that day, she mentioned him only once, albeit rather affectionately, in a conversation about wearisome questions from journalists.
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The young man not long out of Eton and Oxford found the idea wearisome, but the outbreak of the second world war piqued his interest.
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Spufford makes a sport of withholding the truth about Smith and about the novel's narrator, the sort of gambit that can become wearisome if overdone.
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The world will be a grey and wearisome place until the Premier League is returned to us, a monochrome limbo scorched by a colourless sun.
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Even through the door she could hear the mechanical hum and over it the sound of the program, a man's voice narrating something infinitely wearisome.
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The Trump administration and the White House press corps continue to batter each other in a wearisome slugfest that has most regular Americans rolling their eyes.
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Barred as well from state television, Mr. Navalny has turned to YouTube to communicate with his followers, particularly young people who find state television wearisome at best.
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Even embodied by the resourceful Mr. Greenspan, a miming king is a wearisome thing, especially when he is required to explain the facts of life to his son via charades.
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On Thursday, Twitter was pockmarked with laments from journalists who would no longer have jobs at the punchy five-day-a-week tabloid intended to make city commutes less wearisome.
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These days, even the three-hour commute to New York City, which Ms. Masterson is currently making for a recurring role on the NBC drama "Blindspot," has begun to feel wearisome.
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As such, we're not going to provide you with a wearisome preamble about the arduous monotony of international football, even though we actually have, in a self-referential sort of way.
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Meanwhile, markets were wearisome in the aftermath of the raging fires on Australia's east coast, which has already killed 23 people and scorched more than 22.2 million hectares of land so far.
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Marvel showed another, funnier side with Ant-Man, establishing a new comic-relief character — and probably just in time, as a palate cleanser to the cool but often wearisome Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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But if he fails to see that there is an art of madness like his own arts of the deal, then he will soon become wearisome and Berlusconi-like rather than feared and Reaganesque.
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In the absence of a statute putting the matter to rest, a return to the wearisome "Title II Net Neutrality" debate at the FCC the next time a Democrat is elected president is also likely.
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In one room, a trio of current Blue Men explained why it was not wearisome to continually play a character who is always blue, always silent and always surrounded by two others of his ilk.
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Seeking to relaunch the long-running franchise, this latest sequel crumbles underneath a wearisome mix of gore and broad comedy, yielding a laundry list of shortcomings from which it's possible to run, but not hide.
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For a movie that promises an "epic journey" to explore a family's "long-buried suffering," it's strangely unsatisfying, and eventually wearisome, to find that this clan is deeply troubled perhaps only in the eyes of its filmmaker.
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Consider the poem "I Am Learning to Abandon the World": Although this quiet lyric is elegiac, it doesn't mourn the inevitability of growing old so much as it accepts aging's wearisome gradations as stages of self-reclamation.
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Outcasts such as the late Venezuela strongman Hugo Chávez or current Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte may have enjoyed popular domestic support for their outrageousness, but they soon grew wearisome internationally and earned chuckles rather than frightened respect.
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While Tottenham almost won the league last season playing a bold, attractive brand of football, Klopp has inspired a fresh wave of enthusiasm from an Anfield crowd previously bored to tears by the wearisome, sub-motivational corporate-speak of Brendan Rodgers.
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" Ms. Huerta, identified by the name Elle on Mend, found online sites that offer breakup advice to be disappointing, with generic insights like "It just takes time" or wearisome directives like "Post a photo on social media of yourself with someone new.
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The skits are an R-rated fusillade of blanks: a vapid dance between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump; a biblical spoof ("The Can Commandments"); giggly glancing at male genitalia at urinals; a wearisome ode to décolletage; a trucker who wrestles with gay impulses.
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Unlike other Middle Eastern broadcasters, which in place of news tend to emit a wearisome stream of unexamined government announcements and fawning footage of princes and presidents embracing each other, Al Jazeera, which was set up in 1996, tries to tell viewers what is actually going on.
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That sort of relentlessly smart-alecky tone can become a bit wearisome, and the convoluted plot might have even comic-book nerds scratching their heads, built as it is on the notion of multiple permutations of the signature Marvel hero being sucked into the same universe.
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After a while, though, it becomes wearisome to learn who was standing where when they heard the great news and what was playing in London theatres and cinemas that evening, or to hear how the day was later represented in fiction, film, poetry, paintings—or in accounts that may be suspect.
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James provides a gust of fresh air in part because writer-director Ol Parker seeks to outdo the original (which featured a stronger roster of ABBA songs) both through the addition of new characters (including Cher, as well as Andy Garcia as the hotel's dreamy manager) and by simply throwing dozens of dancers at the musical numbers, which risks becoming wearisome.
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The first one is my own, probably caught from a sick kid, back before the development of the adult booster shot; thanks to an astute colleague, I got the diagnosis, and we began the wearisome task of contacting the families of every child I had seen in the clinic or the newborn nursery during my infectious days to inform them of the possible exposure.
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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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It contains plenty of curious information, but is hardly less wearisome than Francis Meres's Wit's Treasury.
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It took at least five minutes before the wearisome, pedantical fellow had finished his arrangements and preparations.
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It was rather discouraging, wearisome work, and Billy's heart began to misgive him as one after another refused his request.
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In the Tuamotu islands, Alpha Andromedae was called Takurua-e-te-tuki-hanga- ruki, meaning "Star of the wearisome toil", and Beta Andromedae was called Piringa-o-Tautu.
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His fellow late nineteenth century novelist George Gissing for instance found his novel The Raiders "wearisome".Coustillas, Pierre ed. London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: the Diary of George Gissing, Novelist. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1978, p.371.
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The Observers Alice Fisher commended Brown's vocal performance and perceived "glimmers of greatness", but ultimately viewed the album as "a great idea that turns out to be a bit wearisome in practice".Fisher, Alice. Review: Travelling Like the Light. The Observer.
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Almost none of Friedlander's work has been translated into English. In 2014, an English translation of The Creator was published by Wakefield Press alongside a translation of “A Wearisome Wedding Night: A Grotesque.” Friedlaender/ Mynona's individualist anarchist activism is documented here (full book).
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She observes: "With its sickening swirls of video imagery, pointless plot, and protracted, repetitive songs, Love Never Dies ... is punishingly wearisome." Other negative reviews appeared in the Financial Times,Shuttleworth, Ian. Financial Times, 12 March 2010 Entertainment Weekly,Shenton, Mark. "Love Never Dies (2010)".
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The AllMusic reviewer suggested that the performance was lacking in emotion: "after a short while, all of the rippling chromatic scales, arpeggios, impressionistic streaks, and showy technical displays become rather wearisome". The Penguin Guide to Jazz praised the playing, while suggesting that "it's time that Drew had the self- possession to let go a bit".
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According to Baháʼí sources, her mother gladly accepted this request and the two became constant companions. Shortly after the arrival in Constantinople they were exiled to the remote Adrianople. The journey was an exhausting and wearisome one during the bitter winter. The cold winter took its toll of Ásíyih and she fell gravely ill.
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7 and Graham Greene called it "a wearisome exhibition of bad taste".Billington, Michael. "Comedy, not farce", The Times, 24 July 1970, p. 13 When the piece had its first West End revival in 1970 the play was warmly though not rapturously praised by the critics,Dawson, Helen. "Not so blithe", The Observer, 26 July 1970, p.
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By 16 March the whole surviving party had reached the hut. The five survivors slowly recovered their strength with a diet of seal meat. The ice was too thin for them to risk the final trip to Cape Evans but the monotony of their diet and surroundings became wearisome. On 8 May Mackintosh and Hayward risked the ice and walked to Cape Evans.
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Damon Knight noted that "Leinster is ingenious in thinking up zany practical applications of slightly cockeyed principles," but concluded that "watching Gregory pull these things out of his hat one after another is wearisome; unlimited fantasy... is generally boring." Floyd C. Gale called the book "a rampant spoof... staying just this side of slapstick. Nevertheless, it emerges more heavy-handed than most of his lighter works".
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Kimbolton railway station was a railway station in Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire. The station and its line closed in 1959. The journey from London St. Pancras would take approximately three hours and involve changing trains and a wait at Kettering - a journey described by former Kimbolton School headmaster William Ingram as "long and wearisome", especially considering that the station was over two miles away from the village centre.
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Also, not all film-industry publications supported the photoplay. The Moving Picture World labeled it a "poor imitation" of A Fool There Was and hampered by a "wearisome" plot with overly dramatic scenes that at one point "brought a general laugh from the large audience at a private showing" in New York."'The Devil's Daughter'", The Moving Picture World, June 1915, p. 2120. Internet Archive.
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Given John's limited income and the growing family, Nettleship eventually gave up painting to take care of the children and the housework. Although she found this wearisome and considered leaving John, she did not live long enough to do so. She died of puerperal fever in Paris in 1907 after the birth of her fifth son, Henry. She was cremated at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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She had planned to write 22 episodes but was "compelled to desperate compression" to limit the story to 20. North and South was less successful than Hard Times. On 14 October 1854, after six weeks, sales dropped so much that Dickens complained about what he called Gaskell's "intractability" because she resisted his demands for conciseness. He found the story "wearisome to the last degree".
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Gibbons's first postwar novel was Westwood (1946). The book incorporates a comic depiction of the novelist Charles Morgan, whose novel The Fountain Gibbons had reviewed before the war and found "offensive as well as wearisome". In Westwood, Morgan appears in the guise of the playwright "Gerald Challis", a pompous, humourless bore. Oliver considers this characterisation to be one of Gibbons's "most enjoyable and vicious" satirical portraits.
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Joseph Joachim, who in his time in Weimar had found Liszt's workshop rehearsals and the trial-and-error process practiced in them to be wearisome, was dismayed at what he considered their lack of creativity.Walker, Weimar, 346. Vienna music critic Eduard Hanslick found even the term "Sinfonische Dichtung" contradictory and offensive; he wrote against them with vehemence after he had heard only one, Les préludes.Walker, Weimar, 363.
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Bride Wars was almost universally panned by critics. The film received an 11% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 144 collected reviews, along with an average rating of 3.35/10. The site's consensus reads, "Bride Wars takes the already wearisome concept of battling bridezillas, and makes it thoroughly insufferable via a lazy script and wholly detestable characters." Time named it one of the top 10 worst chick flicks.
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His three years' stay in Constantinople was wearisome and otherwise disagreeable; the leisure it forced upon him he devoted in part to literary composition. Aurelianus succeeded in granting him the tax remission for Cyrene and the Pentapolis and the exemption from curial obligations for him,Epistulae, 31, 34, 38. but then he fell in disgrace and Synesius lost everything. Later Aurelian returned in power, restoring his own grants to Synesius.
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Adam Roerts, "Dickens Reputation",Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens, ed. Paul Schlicke, Oxford University Press Print Publication Date: 2000 Print Published online: 2011 (subscription required) e , p. 504. The Spectator called Bleak House "a heavy book to read through at once ... dull and wearisome as a serial"; Richard Simpson, in The Rambler, characterized Hard Times as ‘this dreary framework’; Fraser's Magazine thought Little Dorrit ‘decidedly the worst of his novels’.
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The missing pie residue was recreated carefully with more pies, and shooting resumed. At first, the actors had fun with the pie fight assignment, but eventually the process grew wearisome and dangerous. Wood choked briefly on pie filling which hit her open mouth. Lemmon reported that he got knocked out a few times; he said "a pie hitting you in the face feels like a ton of cement".
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Bryan Wooley of Entertainment Weekly praised the novel, "Carter has done his research. His portrayal of the tedium, filth, and barbarism of the frontier are vivid and realistic. What the tale lacks is dramatic tension, probably because Ben tells his story in a folksy, corn-pone voice that, over 424 pages, becomes wearisome. B-".Entertainment Weekly review The New York Times Children's Bookshelf briefly noted it as "a realistic Western".
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The men plow and the women weave. Their toil is extremely > wearisome, yet what they gain from it is negligible, while manifold interest > returns to these lazy idlers. This sort, in tens and hundreds, come together > to form gangs. When the villagers come to sell things in the market place, > before the goods have even left their hands, this crowd of idlers arrives > and attacks them, assaulting them as a group.
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All in all, a wearisome, confused performance which > could be interesting just for a small group of literary gourmets. Workers > won't take such 'bath' eagerly. "Mayakovsky portrays monstrous bureaucrats without pointing to the ways of dealing with them," Komsomolskaya Pravda complained on 22 March 1930, concluding: "In all honesty, the play turned out bad, Meyerhold had no business staging it." Nasha Gazeta found the author's exposure of bureaucratism not 'serious' enough.
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Connoquenessing is known as the area in which George Washington was famously shot at by his French Indian guide. On 27 December 1753, just past Muthering Town, a Native American allied with the French (French Indian) joined Washington and Gist as a guide. The guide's behavior became wearisome to Washington and Gist. As the party was approaching a clearing the Indian stopped, turned on Washington and Gist and fired his musket.
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Fátimih was brought from Persia to ʻAkká after both Baháʼu'lláh and his wife Navváb expressed an interest in her to marry ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. After a wearisome journey from Isfahán to Akka she finally arrived accompanied by her brother in 1872. The young couple were betrothed for about five months before the marriage itself commenced. In the meantime, Fátimih lived in the home of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's uncle Mírzá Músá.
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With it, she included a sequel to The Tale of Benjamin Bunny starring Benjamin's offspring, The Flopsy Bunnies. Though she had complained at times that the rabbit characters had become "wearisome",MacDonald 1986, p. 42 she had written a young fan, William Warner, that children liked her rabbits best and that she ought to write another rabbit book. The third tale she sent Warne was about the village shop in Sawrey.
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The Hornet captioned its review, "Thespis; or, the Gods Grown Old and WEARISOME!" The Morning Advertiser found it "a dreary, tedious two-act rigmarole of a plot... grotesque without wit, and the music thin without liveliness... however, not entirely devoid of melody.... The curtain falls before a yawning and weary audience."Allen (First Night), p. 5 But others found much to admire in the work, despite the poor opening performance.
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Alexis Petridis of The Guardian pointed out that the songs were "largely about sex", calling it "wearisome". Ian Cohen of Pitchfork Media called the album a "baffling, obnoxious mess". Adrian Ruhi of Okayplayer gave the album a score of 88 out of 100 and called some of the songs "a dynamic mess", but noted it was "a good thing". Some critics argued that the album was their most consistent and strongest album to date.
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He was a governor of Christ's College, and was on the board of Canterbury College (1875–1883). As a resident magistrate, he was widely respected for his fair dealings. His contribution to the provincial government was regarded as valuable, especially his understanding of finances. As a government official, he was perceived by William Ellison Burke, the avid recorder of Canterbury personalities in the 1850s and 1860s, as "crotchety official – a wearisome magistrate".
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The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire. Moreover, Morland engages the young actress Amandine and borrows a child baptised Alberto from his acquaintance Tony. Morland's plan is to exchange the children and then to reveal this in order to retrieve ransom from millionaire Rifai. But to everybody's surprise Rifai prefers Alberto to his moody and wearisome own son.
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James Brown was born in East Fife, Scotland, and in company with his brother, Archibald, left Liverpool on the barque Fairfield on 1 November 1838. After a wearisome voyage of 185 days they arrived in South Australia on 4 May 1839. In 1840 they settled in Allendale in the Hindmarsh River valley, the owners of 640 sheep. By 1844 they owned 1,290 ewes, 14 cattle, 6 pigs and 14 acres of wheat.
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The five survivors slowly recovered their strength with a diet of seal meat. The ice was too thin for them to risk the final trip to Cape Evans, and the monotony of their diet and surroundings became wearisome. On 8 May Mackintosh announced that he and Hayward intended to risk the ice and walk to Cape Evans. Against the strenuous objections of their companions they departed, and within the hour disappeared into a blizzard.
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Don Graham, in Critical Essays on Frank Norris, quotes an unnamed critic, who points out that there is “not a passage in the book that is pleasant to read”.Graham, Don (1980). Critical Essays on Frank Norris. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, p. 21. As well as Bennett’s brutal struggles in the frozen north, and Lloyd’s job as a nurse taking care of dying people, this same critic describes some of the passages in this book as “wearisome” and “rambling”.
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Christian theologians see the Fall of man profoundly affecting human work. In Genesis 3:17, God said to Adam, "cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life" (ESV). Leland Ryken points out that, because of the Fall, "many of the tasks we perform in a fallen world are inherently distasteful and wearisome."Leland Ryken, Work and Leisure in Christian Perspective (Portland: Multnomah, 1987), 120.
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Wearisome days prolonged into years —months when she could not stand alone or walk— and then nursed into convalescence. All one long, dreary winter she was kept in a darkened room with her eyes closely covered, not enduring a ray of light, and suffering most intensely. And with all this pain and suffering and blindness, with it all there came such a longing to write one long poem. In 1863, she removed with her father's family to Hartford, Connecticut.
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The temple of Sri Janardana is situated on the summit of a table-land adjoining the sea. It is located on one of the hill-tops, which is reached by a long and wearisome flight of steps and one feels tired on arriving at the feet of the Lord. At the entrance to the inner shrine are the idols of Hanuman and Garuda on either side and in the main shrine is the idol of Sri.
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The Leeds Mercury particularly praised the characterisation of Holmes, "with all his little foibles", while in contrast the Cheltenham Looker-On described Holmes as "rather a bore sometimes", noting that descriptions of his foibles "grows wearisome". The correspondent for Hampshire Telegraph lamented the fact that Doyle's more thoughtful writing, such as Micah Clarke, was not so popular as the Holmes stories, concluding that an author "who wishes to make literature pay must write what his readers want".
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His wife exclaims that she has to finish "this", but he speaks out against it, managing to make his way over to her as he tells her that the vessel is going down and they have to abandon ship. She simply continues writing and replies, "They have to know." She then finishes her note and rolls it up in her hands, pointing out that, while they might not may it home, this could. The King is wearisome.
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A soldier hides his yawn from his lady companion in this detail from a painting by Oscar Bluhm titled Ermüdende Konversation, or "Wearisome conversation". Some cultures lend yawning moral or spiritual significance. An open mouth has been associated with letting good immaterial things (such as the soul) escape or letting bad ones (evil spirits) enter, and yawning may have been thought to increase these risks. Covering the mouth when yawning may have been a way to prevent such transmission.
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This is only applicable to the modern mode of playing the game, which is extended until all the players are satisfied with their hands. They may keep on trading until they all receive cards good enough to stand upon. The great objection to this variation of the game is that it is wearisome because the players have to wait until all the others are satisfied with their cards. The combinations "pair" and "point" are not recognized.
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Of her performance in the latter piece, The Times wrote that "what would be utterly ineffective and wearisome in the keeping of an ordinary actress, she renders effective and interesting by the natural interpretation of the character."The Times, 5 October 1866 This was soon followed by A Sister's Penance by Tom Taylor and Augustus Dubourg. With J. L. Toole, for the Christmas season of 1866, she appeared in new burlesque, The Mountain Dhu by Andrew Halliday.
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Thomas Carlyle, after reading Sale's translation, called the Quran "toilsome reading and a wearisome confused jumble, crude, incondite" with "endless iterations, long-windedness, entanglement" and "insupportable stupidity." He said it is the work of a "great rude human soul".Thomas Carlyle (1841), On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, p. 64-67 Gerd Rüdiger Puin noted that approximately every fifth sentence of it does not make any sense despite the Quran's own claim of being a clear book.
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His nickname, in contrast to that of his brother (the "Pocket Hercules"), was "Barn Door". A.G. Moyes provides this piece of Bannerman imagery in Australian Batsmen: "At times the crowd found him as wearisome to the flesh as fleas in a warm bed." Wisden Cricketers' Almanack dubbed him "the most famous of all stone-walling batsmen; his patience was inexhaustible." In his first Test, Alick top-scored (as Charles had memorably done on his debut in 1876/77, hitting 165) with 73.
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Jessie Cunneffe of Rolling Stone gave the album 3 out of 4 stars saying; "If you're looking for a pub gig in an album, Jon Stevens has delivered. That said, it's the sort of gig you're likely to talk over some of the time – a solid backdrop of classic soul, blues, country and rock that amps up the atmosphere without monopolising your attentions. The skilfully delivered consistency is oddly wearisome at times though. While Starlight is polished and rocking, it's rather predictable".
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Cuman stone statue The nomadic Cumans controlled the lands north of the Lower Danube and east of the Carpathian Mountains after about 1100. Archaeological research indicates that most settlements in the territory had been abandoned by that time. According to John Kinnamos, a Byzantine army which invaded the Kingdom of Hungary in 1166 "had passed through some wearisome and rugged regions and had gone through a land entirely bereft of men"Deeds of John and Manuel Comnenus by John Kinnamos (6.3.261), p. 196.
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The Billy-Club Puppets (Los títeres de cachiporra) is a play for puppet theatre by the twentieth-century Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca. It was written between 1922 and 1925. It is about a beautiful heroine named Rosita who falls in love with a poor boy named Cocoliche, but has to marry Don Cristóbal, a rich old, lazy lump with a big billy club. Meanwhile, there are bar fights, some mean smugglers, and Fígaro and Wearisome discover a deep, dark secret about Don Cristóbal.
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August 25, 2011 Michel Faber of The Guardian praised Habibi as "an orgy of art for its own sake", and calling Thompson an "obsessive sketcher" whose artwork he categorized with that of Joe Sacco and Will Eisner. Although Faber lauded the book's visuals and its message, he found both its length wearisome and its treatment of sex to be problematic, in particular the repeatedly sexual cruelty visited upon Dodola, which Faber felt caused the story to fold in on itself.Faber, Michel. "Habibi by Craig Thompson – review".
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In 1820 Felix Walker, who represented Buncombe County, North Carolina, in the U.S. House of Representatives, rose to address the question of admitting Missouri as a free or slave state. This was his first attempt to speak on this subject after nearly a month of solid debate and right before the vote was to be called. Allegedly, to the exasperation of his colleagues, Walker insisted on delivering a long and wearisome "speech for Buncombe."debunk – The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.
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New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, while writing that the production team "managed a craftsmanlike job", nonetheless said that viewers will find the film's "repetition just a bit wearisome and even dull. They are likely to find the dialogue — although flavored with such racy words as 'pitch' and 'plant' and 'sucker' — rather heavily loaded with cliches. And they will certainly find nothing original in the easy solution of the plot."Crowther, Bosley (November 2, 1946) "The Screen: Confidence Racket" The New York Times.
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Kepler here introduces his famous diagram of the movement of Mars in relation to Earth if Earth remained unmoving at the center of its orbit. The diagram shows that Mars's orbit would be completely imperfect and never follow along the same path. Kepler discusses all his work at great length throughout the book. He addresses this length in the sixteenth chapter: > If thou art bored with this wearisome method of calculation, take pity on > me, who had to go through with at least seventy repetitions of it, at a very > great loss of time.
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Associated with her are her companions Kitty (Duray) and Speed (Craig), and Hester has changed considerably from her small town roots. Her life with Charles and his companions grows wearisome and she longs to see her home town once again, and she accomplishes this while on an automobile trip with Charles, Kitty, and Speed. She discovers that many of the townspeople have forgotten her, and Jerry is the only one she is anxious to see. She finds that he is still devoted to her and is now the manager of the store.
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All the same, when Sam wore the ring on the edge of Mordor, "he did not feel invisible at all, but horribly and uniquely visible; and he knew that somewhere an Eye was searching for him". The Ring extended the life of a mortal possessor indefinitely, preventing natural aging. Gandalf explained that it did not grant new life, but that the possessor merely continued until life became unbearably wearisome. The Ring did not protect its bearer from destruction; Gollum perished in the Crack of Doom, and Sauron's body was destroyed in the downfall of Númenor.
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Writing of the Robin Hood ballads after A Gest of Robyn Hode, their Victorian collector Francis Child claimed that variations on the "'Robin met with his match'" theme, such as this ballad, are "sometimes wearisome, sometimes sickening", and that "a considerable part of the Robin Hood poetry looks like char-work done for the petty press, and should be judged as such."The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Vol. 3. Ed. Francis James Child. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1888 and 1889. Republished 1965 and 2003. p. 42.
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The book was described by Publishers Weekly as a "sparklingly mischievous debut".The Astor Orphan: A Memoir , Publishers Weekly, 12/24/2012 In the Chicago Tribune, Kevin Nance compared it to Grey Gardens, adding that, "Aldrich delivers buckets of eccentricity."Kevin Nance, Review: 'The Astor Orphan' by Alexandra Aldrich, The Chicago Tribune, May 03, 2013 However, he argued that her "petulant grievance and thwarted entitlement" made the book "wearisome fast". He added that the dialogues lacked credibility, and that there is a "lack of an adult, emotionally mature perspective".
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Over the next fifteen years, Crisp directed some 70 films in all, most notably The Navigator (1924) with Buster Keaton and Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925) with Douglas Fairbanks.Employment contract with the Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation , animationguild.org; accessed 9 July 2014. When asked later by an interviewer why he eventually gave up directing and returned full-time to acting, Crisp commented that directing had become extremely wearisome because he was so often called upon, if not forced, to do favours for studio chiefs by agreeing to employ their relatives in his films.
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"King 249-250. Dora's characterization, behavior, and wisdom complement a brief earlier description of a party scene, in Part II, wherein a "witty Northern belle, of course, attracted the most attention."King 229. King herself took several extended trips North (including her education in Philadelphia as a young girl), and expressed her dislike for the South and its "stupid, self-sufficient, wearisome styles of [its] young ladies ... who have not three ideas, who spoil a little French, who play a little music, and have not a grain of agreeability.
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She concluded that "Champions of Krynn is a pretty good game overall, but you do have to be aware of its failings". In 1993 she called the game "standard fare for the most part", approving of cameo appearances of characters from the books but criticizing the final battle as "wearisome rather than exciting". According to GameSpy, while "there's little to find fault with in Champions of Krynn [...] the major criticism was that the game's graphics were becoming hopelessly dated". IGN ranked Champions of Krynn No. 10 on their list of "The Top 11 Dungeons & Dragons Games of All Time" in 2014.
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Conditions were hard and a typical launderer worked for ten to sixteen hours a day.This topic is also treated at length in Ban Seng Hoe, Enduring Hardship: The Chinese Laundry in Canada, Canadian Museum of Civilization (2004). . According to one description: > Laundry work was especially wearisome, because it meant the soaking, > scrubbing, and ironing of clothing solely by hand; moreover, prompt and high > quality service was necessary to keep customers satisfied. Workers in > laundries and groceries received the going wage of twenty-five dollars per > month, and despite long hours the work-week was seven days.
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Variety called it "incredulous and wearisome tale" and wondered how it had gotten approval from Universal. The New York Times review said the film was a "collection of babble clues, butlers at windows and gloomy manses, mysterious messages, stupid policemen, leers by Lionel Atwill and matrimonial badinage ... most of which is beside the point." The Leonard Maltin Classic Movie Guide calls the film a "fast-paced whodunit" but "not particularly puzzling." Tom Weaver, Micheal and John Brunas appreciated the on-screen chemistry between Gwynne and Knowles, but thought that Atwill, "in the reddest of red herring roles", was wasted.
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This form may in part have derived from the practical inventiveness of musicians; "Court dances were long; the tunes which accompanied them were short. Their repetition became intolerably wearisome, and inevitably led the player to indulge in extempore variation and ornament"; however, the format of the dance required these variations to maintain the same duration and shape of the tune. Variation forms can be written as free-standing pieces for solo instruments or ensembles, or can constitute a movement of a larger piece. Most jazz music is structured on a basic pattern of theme and variations.
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He also studied law in Bologna. When Charles of Bourbon died, he went to Rome in the suite of Charles V. For some time he held a position in the papal court at Rome, but about 1534 he returned to France, and became an advocate. His marriage, in 1537, procured for him the post of counsellor to the parlement of Paris. He held this office until 1547, when he was sent by Henry II on a mission to Bologna, where the Council of Trent was sitting; after sixteen months of wearisome inactivity there, he chose to be recalled at the end of 1548.
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Pontefract Castle in 1648, with civil war fortifications surrounding the old medieval ones. In the north, Pontefract Castle was surprised by the Royalists, and shortly afterwards Scarborough Castle declared for the King as well. Fairfax, after his success at Maidstone and the pacification of Kent, turned northward to reduce Essex, where, under their ardent, experienced, and popular leader Sir Charles Lucas, the Royalists were in arms in great numbers. Fairfax soon drove Lucas into Colchester, but the first attack on the town was repulsed and he had to settle down to a long and wearisome siege.
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" Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote that the film "has been very well worked out on all levels, and manages the difficult feat of being an intimate, even delicate tale played with an appealingly light touch against an epic backdrop." The film did receive notable pans from several major reviewers. Anthony Lane of The New Yorker called the film "Warm, wise, and wearisome as hell." Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly said that the film was "glib, shallow, and monotonous" and "reduces the tumult of the last few decades to a virtual-reality theme park: a baby-boomer version of Disney's America.
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Bangkok Post film critic Kong Rithdee called the film "wearisome", and said that though the film has "nice moments ... the script is too shipshape, maybe too busy with its thematic messages, and it's not easy to sympathise with Kwan, who obviously has never heard of worse handicaps. Writer-director Kongdej Jaturanrasamee is a better director when he allows his films to be wackier.". ThaiCinema.org's reviewers praised the performance by actress Supaksorn Chaimongkol, as well as the intricate "hand talent" effects – Kwan's third hand was played by an actual actor, rather than special effects. But the reviewers said the film contained too many elements and tended to be draggy in places.
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Mongan and Naef, xxi Louise de Broglie (1818–1882) was 27 at the time of the portrait. Ingres had two to three years earlier sketched her with black chalk as a preparatory drawing, and begun an oil-on-canvas painting, which excludes the mirror and reflected images, and reverses the pose, but that was abandoned. The sessions were long and slow, and de Broglie found them wearisome, at one stage complaining "for the last nine days Ingres has been painting on one of the hands".Tinterow et al, 406 She fell pregnant with her third child, was thus unable to pose further, and the 1842 painting remains unfinished.
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However, Christie said in his unpublished autobiography that he had tried at Oxford to steer clear of topics involving "the to me wearisome wranglings of past generations over religious issues". In his second work, Wilkes, Wyvill and Reform: The Parliamentary Reform Movement in British Politics, 1760–1785 (1962), Christie explored the movement for parliamentary reform that was led by John Wilkes and Christopher Wyvill. Christie said of the Unreformed House of Commons: "[B]y and large this extraordinary system worked not unsuccessfully" and was "appropriate to the Britain of its day".John Cannon, 'Review: Wilkes, Wyvil and Reform by Ian Christie', History, Vol. 49, No. 165 (1964), p. 83.
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Accordingly, in September, 1847, two young men, Br. Francis Fitzpatrick and his cousin, Br. Alphonsus Tolan, having completed their short spell of training in Ireland, began their long and wearisome voyage around the Cape of Good Hope to Calcutta, arriving on 15 February 1848. They immediately set up the new community of the Calcutta Brothers in the Cathedral compound, Moorghihatta. Br. Francis took charge of the orphanage at Moorghihatta while Br. Alphonsus travelled each day to look after the boys Free School in Bow Bazar. The little Congregation grew slowly but received a setback when both, Vicar Apostolic Carew and Br. Francis died in 1855.
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Between 1880 and 1891 the hulk was used to house boys convicted of crimes or determined to be "uncontrollable". Pumps were operated by the boys for up to three hours a day to expel water that was leaking into the hulk and keep it from sinking. Because of its poor conditions, the hulk became known as "Hell afloat". A Royal Commission was ordered into the Destitute Board in 1883 which found the boys at Fitzjames in "pallid and dull appearance" and conditions described as "depressing" with "wearisome monotony of life", "gross improprieties" between younger children and older youths and officers, "deplorable" education standards and "defects in the dietary and want of open-air exercise".
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The Lyceum production received mixed reviews, complimenting Mansfield's performance but criticizing the play as a whole. A Sunday Times reviewer appreciated Mansfield's performance as Hyde and in the transformation scenes, but not as Jekyll, and called the overall play "dismal and wearisome in the extreme".Review in The Sunday Times, August 5, 1888, reprinted in According to a Daily Telegraph review, Stevenson's story was unsuitable for drama and Sullivan had not adapted it well, but the performances of Mansfield and his company were praiseworthy.Review in The Daily Telegraph, August 6, 1888, reprinted in A review in The Saturday Review criticized Sullivan's adaptation, saying that it presented only one aspect of the Jekyll character from Stevenson's story.
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Billboard complimented the album's production, writing the more experimental songs like "Only Time" and "Lazy Days" "not only freshen a musical formula that still works extremely well but also leave the listener happily curious about Enya's next move". Rolling Stone remarked that the album sounded too similar to her previous releases and thought a change in musical direction after Paint the Sky with Stars would have been better. Her "skill at ephemeral sonic watercolors has grown wearisome, like a relative who tells the same stories every holiday." In The Baltimore Sun, J. D. Considine thought the album belonged in "the same lush, contemplative vein" as Enya's previous albums, which he thought were formed of "pretty but unconnected" tracks.
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" Alicia Potter of The Phoenix bashed Furry Vengeance as "violent, coarse, and mirthless." Among criticisms the "wincing" performances, such as Jeong's "racist role of Asian corporate baddie," she also wrote, "The casting of live animals that communicate via thought balloons and CGI-enhanced facial expressions charms at first, but since there’s no imagination behind the boulder rolling and the poop bombs, the critters grow wearisome." In the opinion of Kurt Loder of MTV News, "Brendan Fraser runs through an alarmingly extensive repertoire of low-comic muggery — face-scrunches, eye-rolls and general dingbat gibbering." He also wrote, "In the end, of course, Dan finally gets it — the righteousness of the animals' cause and the error of his ways.
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She returned on her liberation to the service of the duchess, who showed no gratitude for the devotion, approaching the heroic, that Mlle Delaunay had shown in her cause. She received no promotion and still had to fulfill the wearisome duties of a waiting-maid. She refused, it is said, André Dacier, the widower of a wife more famous than himself, and, in 1735, being then more than fifty, married the Baron de Staal. Her dissatisfaction with her position had become so evident that the duchess, afraid of losing her services, arranged the marriage to give Mlle Delaunay rank sufficient to allow of her promotion to be on an equality with the ladies of the court.
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In an in-depth review of the album's lyrics Ken Capobianco of The Boston Globe wrote; Brad Wete of Billboard called the album's lyrical style sharp and noted its wordplay; Wete also described the album as "insular" with lyrics containing "cuts" that "run deep, searing with spite and indifference", continuing to note the album's themes as revolving around love interests, inward thinking and "chronicling her wearisome romantic history". Erin Lowers from XXL noted relationships, dreams, and aspirations as the three main concepts layered throughout the album. Bradley Stern from Time, called the album's lyrical content "occasionally snappy", which he described as keeping the otherwise "gentle pulsations" of the album feeling "fresh" and "employing expressions".
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Jordan Mintzer from Variety called Stewart "the heart and soul of the film" and praised her for giving "both weight and depth to dialogue...she makes Bella's psychological wounds seem like the real deal." On the other hand, Manohla Dargis from The New York Times said Stewart's "lonely-girl blues soon grow wearisome," and Bill Goodykoontz from The Arizona Republic stated "Stewart is a huge disappointment... She sucks the energy right out of the film". She reprised this role in the third Twilight film, Eclipse. Stewart at the Australian premiere of Snow White and the Huntsman in June 2012 At the 82nd Academy Awards, Stewart and Twilight co-star Taylor Lautner presented a tribute in honor of the horror film genre.
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However, he was less convinced by Webster's attempt to minimize Freud's originality, finding it "wearisome". He argued that Webster lacked familiarity with the history of ideas in 19th-century Germany and Austria and was too "Anglo-centric" in his approach, and criticized him for devoting only half a page to Freud's most intellectually formative years, and ignoring published letters by Freud written during that period. He considered Webster, following Frank Sulloway, correct to emphasize that the development of Freud's theories after 1896 was mainly inspired by assumptions drawn from contemporary biology. However, he maintained that Webster was "oblivious to Freud's background in biology" and wrongly concluded that it was Fliess, rather than Haeckel, who led Freud to accept the view that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
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The dynamic between Mulan and Merida was solid though, and they pushed each other to be better. Merida's had nothing but trouble with her kingdom in all the encounters we've had with her so another quest so soon was wearisome, and it didn't have the emotional pull it could have possessed." Ratcliffe gave the episode a 6.1 rating out of 10. Gwen Ihnat of The A.V. Club gave the episode a mixed review, giving it a C+. In her recap, she cited that the episode was weak in the delivery, saying " I’ve already complained about how the Merida storylines aren’t doing it for me, through no fault of the actress playing her, I just don’t think the Brave canon has much to offer as Merlin’s, say.
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Jekyll wrote about Robinson that: > ...when English gardening was mostly represented by the innate futilities of > the "bedding" system, with its wearisome repetitions and garish colouring, > Mr William Robinson chose as his work in live to make better known the > treasures that were lying neglected, and at the same time to overthrow the > feeble follies of the "bedding" system. It is mainly owing to his > unremitting labours that a clear knowledge of the world of hardy-plant > beauty is now placed within easy reach of all who care to acquire it, and > that the "bedding mania" is virtually dead.Massingham, p. 85. Robinson also published God's Acre Beautiful or The Cemeteries of The Future, in which he applied his gardening aesthetic to urban churchyards and cemeteries.
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The architects were Ernest George and Harold Peto. The latter was not at all impressed with Steinkopff and his wealth: returning from Cairo after his retirement in December 1892, Peto reflected in his travel diary: :"There is no fear of a wearisome amount of ease and delights, palling and cloying one's life; there are always sufficient setbacks and vexations one cannot escape to give piquancy (if it were lacking), without adding the drawbacks of living at the bottom of a horse pond and vainly trying to please vulgar, exacting, nouveau riches Steinkopffs & Co." After his daughter Margaret's death, the art treasures in the house were sold at auction by Christie's, 22-24 May 1935; these included paintings, furniture, glass, porcelain, bronze sculptures, and silver.
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He loves intensely, he adopts > children, he is fiery in his friendships and hates alike, and his > experiences in getting Americanized furnish a far greater fund of comedy > than the wearisome peanut-stand mirth to which the 'scene-in-one' artists > have accustomed us." Owing to the success of "The Sign of the Rose," Beban was cast for most of the next decade in Italian character roles. In 1917, Beban revealed to a reporter the irony that he could not speak a word of Italian. Beban explained: > "I understand the tongue when it is spoken – I couldn't be associated with > it for so many years and not recognize and translate it – but I have never > attempted to talk it myself.
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Barber found Departures to be "heartfelt, unpretentious, [and] slyly funny", worth watching (though ultimately predictable). Mike Scott gave the film three and a half stars out of four, finding that it was "a surprisingly uplifting examination of life and loss", with humour which perfectly complemented the "moving and meaningful story", but lent itself to characters "mug[ging] for the camera". Meanwhile, Kevin Maher of The Times described Departures as a "verklempt comedy" with wearisome "push-button crying", though he considered it saved by the quality of the acting, "stately" directing, and "dreamy" soundtrack. Another mixed review was published in The Daily Telegraph, which described the film as a "safe and emotionally generous crowd-pleaser" that was not worthy of its Academy Award.
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The campaign pointed out the large rise in receipts to the National Health Insurance Fund from the corresponding rise in unmarried women who were obliged to work. This was one of many actuarial injustices suffered by spinsters who contributed to the Fund, yet drew little from it in return. In fact a definite formula for calculating the ratio of contributions to benefits was difficult to arrive at. There had been a shift to contributory funding in 1925 which "threw a veil of mystification over the pension scheme, consolidating the political power of the actuaries within Whitehall and providing scope for endless, wearisome arguments over the technical relationship between contributions and benefits" Little daunted by this, Florence and the campaigners continued to mount reasoned financial arguments for their cause.
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George T. Pardy wrote in the Exhibitor's Trade Review that Brown had "utilized the flashback with excellent effect in developing the evidence in the case, and right here it should be stated that the courtroom stuff, so frequently overdone and burdened with unnecessary wearisome detail where the average film is concerned, is handled with such dexterity and colorful appeal that the trial scene rivets the spectator's attention from the beginning to end". Mary Mac said of the film in the Universal Weekly, that "there's a real mystery for you to set your teeth into. You may figure yourself into delirium and you'll probably figure wrong. The picture has been excellently directed, well knit, shorn of irrelevant details, full of suspense, and building steadily and forcefully up to its climaxes".
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Then, returning to their families at Milwaukee and > Racine, they immediately prepared to move onto their farms, coming over in > covered emigrant wagons — "prairie schooners" — and by the middle of October > they were all on their places, housed in what people nowadays would call > "miserable shanties," but to them, after their wearisome journey, they were > "comfortable homes." Facing the winter of 1845–46, the settlement contained > in round numbers, including children, fifty-three persons, composed of nine > families and seven single men. Friesland School The Dolwyddelan connection is recorded in an articleCambria, Wisconsin in 1898 J. Glyn Davies, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1957, pp. 128-159 published posthumously by J. Glyn Davies, a descendant of John Jones, Talysarn, whose brothers and sisters had emigrated to Cambria.
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However, he goes on to write that 'Dombey and Son is a novel which in its beginning promises more than its progress fulfils' and gives the following reasons why: > Impossible to avoid the reflection that the death of Dombey's son and heir > marks the end of a complete story, that we feel a gap between Chapter XVI > and what comes after (the author speaks of feeling it himself, of his > striving to "transfer the interest to Florence") and that the narrative of > the later part is ill-constructed, often wearisome, sometimes incredible. We > miss Paul, we miss Walter Gay (shadowy young hero though he be); Florence is > too colourless for deep interest, and the second Mrs. Dombey is rather > forced upon us than accepted as a natural figure in the drama. Dickens's > familiar shortcomings are abundantly exemplified.
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Scholars and critics detect in the narrative voice a certain lack of interest and lack of emotional involvement in The Flopsy Bunnies that they ascribe to various factors. MacDonald points out that the plot is simple and designed to capture the attention of young children, but suspects that Potter was more involved in the locale rather than the characters. Potter had at one time declared the rabbit characters "wearisome", and the brevity with which she treats them in The Flopsy Bunnies suggests that this was her attitude to the book as a whole. Potter biographer Linda Lear, author of Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature observes that Potter had great affection for Peter Rabbit, but the sequels never held quite the same appeal for her because neither sprang to life from story and picture letters to children in the manner of Peter Rabbit.
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The play’s original reception was mostly critical. Reviewing the first production, the New York Mirror described it as "among the highest order of plays," "masterly," and "the noblest contribution to its literature the stage has received in many years".The New York Mirror, 25, 1883; quoted in Mason, Stuart. "Bibliography of Oscar Wilde" T. Werner Laurie Lt (1914), p273. Accessed online at Oscar Wilde in America at 1/04/2014 12:39 Other newspapers reviews were very critical: "Long-drawn dramatic rot" (New York Herald), "wearisome" (New York Times), and "little better than fizzle" (New York Tribune).The New York Mirror, 25, 1883; quoted in Mason, Stuart. "Bibliography of Oscar Wilde" T. Werner Laurie Lt (1914), p273. Accessed online at Oscar Wilde in America at 1/04/2014 12:39 Punch printed that it was "from all accounts, except the Poet's own, Vera Bad".Punch, 1 September 1883, p.
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The speech is a central exemplar of a general theme or pattern in Hamlet: ironic reversal. Throughout the play the pattern unfolds repeatedly: his enemies employ a stratagem against Hamlet, but fail, and he then turns the stratagem back on them. For instance, when verbally sparring with Claudius in Act 1, Scene 2, Hamlet turns his own words back against him: When Claudius invokes their kinship, Hamlet puns on kin—kind; and when Claudius invokes a weather metaphor for a gloomy disposition, Hamlet's counter has three distinct meanings: literally that he is not under a cloud but actually too much in the sun; that Claudius' constant invocation of "son" (which Hamlet puns as "sun") is getting wearisome; and that he feels he spends too much time in the presence of the king ("the sun"). Similarly in the Closet Scene: For each verbal attack by Gertrude, Hamlet counters by turning her own words back at her.
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A certain extravagance in particular scenes and persons—a tendency to caricature and grotesqueness—and a something here and there which savours of the melodramatic, as if the author had been considering how the thing would 'tell' on the stage—are to be found in Our Mutual Friend, as in all this great novelist's productions." Edwin Whipple in 1867 also commented on the sentiment and pathos of Dickens's characters, stating, "But the poetical, the humorous, the tragic, or the pathetic element is never absent in Dickens's characterization, to make his delineations captivating to the heart and imagination, and give the reader a sense of having escaped from whatever in the actual world is dull and wearisome."Whipple, Edwin P, "The Genius of Dickens", Atlantic Monthly May 1867 pp 546–54 quoted in However, in 1869 George Stott condemned Dickens for being overly sentimental: "Mr Dickens's pathos we can only regard as a complete and absolute failure. It is unnatural and unlovely.
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Quoted in Pease 57. Six years into their marriage, what little warmth existed between Henry and Sue had declined precipitously, and she began a series of long, extended visits to the North with her sister Caroline. These trips were done under the auspices of Caroline’s ailing health, but for both women the more pressing reason was an escape from their troubled marriages. Caroline’s husband William had become an abusive alcoholic, and Sue tired of her husband’s malaise at home, as well as his drinking and gambling while away. Sue had also become cynical of “the stupid, self-sufficient, wearisome styles of young ladies” in Charleston. She criticized Southern women “who have not three ideas, who spoil a little French, who play a little music, and have not a grain of agreeability,” and proclaimed that “it was a wise dispensation of Providence which places no loftier aspirations within them.”King, Susan Petigru. Letter to Adèle Theresa Allston.
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With the Neolithic agricultural revolution new needs were also met by increasing knowledge of constellations, whose appearances in the night-time sky change with the seasons, allowing the rising of particular star-groups to herald annual floods or seasonal activities.Hesiod ( 8th century BC). Hesiod’s poem Works and Days demonstrates how the heliacal rising and setting of constellations were used as a calendrical guide to agricultural events, from which were drawn mundane astrological predictions, e.g.: “Fifty days after the solstice, when the season of wearisome heat is come to an end, is the right time to go sailing. Then you will not wreck your ship, nor will the sea destroy the sailors, unless Poseidon the Earth-Shaker be set upon it, or Zeus, the king of the deathless gods” (II. 663-677). By the 3rd millennium BC, widespread civilisations had developed sophisticated awareness of celestial cycles, and are believed to have consciously oriented their temples to create alignment with the heliacal risings of the stars.Kelley and Milone (2005) p.268.
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