The record is wearying, as so many guitar-drum duo bands are wearying.
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Writing incessantly about sexual violence is wearying on multiple levels.
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Helping patients with so many complex needs can be wearying.
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Lee's virtuosity never flags, and it also never gets wearying.
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My dad began making the wearying rounds of city agencies.
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She isn't wrong, but the nonstop vaudeville can get wearying.
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It makes lives simpler to delegate complex, wearying tasks to robots.
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The trauma of hearing these testimonies day after day is wearying.
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Indeed, farce as a genre depends upon handle-rattling, hinge-wearying antics.
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For all its atmosphere and style, Phantom Doctrine becomes a wearying grind.
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He came to rely on their restorative qualities after wearying stints back East.
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So many films about recovery follow a familiar, wearying pattern of struggle and collapse.
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But the effect ultimately proves wearying: Even deliberate bad taste can start to bore.
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Those wearying of the wait might want to consider a slight shift in palate.
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Divide up the tangle of wearying tasks among family members to make them doable.
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Pointing this out is wearying and repetitive, but still it must be pointed out.
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It didn't take long for the Jacksonville mass shooting to yield to wearying, familiar discourses.
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A feeling of déjà vu hangs over the episode, at first wearying and later ingenious.
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After 15-plus years of war-on-terror stories, it's just one more wearying engagement.
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The Pablo-Leanna connection never feels convincing and Pablo's self-sabotage and misery become wearying.
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At some level, this is just everyone doing their wearying, stressful, and repetitive jobs, fairly poorly.
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It's a deadly combination, but also a wearying one as it plays out over and over.
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This makes for some page-turners, but it also imposes a wearying sameness on the book.
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Are there moments when "What Happened" is wearying, canned and disingenuous, spinning events like a top?
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The sheer volume of aggrieved people with whom I was in contact was, at times, wearying.
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But it's also a drab backdrop for countless soul-wearying commutes and thousands of traffic deaths.
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There's pleasure in watching Foer wrestle with those questions in rich, sprawling sentences, but it's also wearying.
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But the last quarter of 22017 has been a long, wearying slog through other people's sweaty pants.
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"The constant barrage of hate mail from the internet, all the time, gets very wearying," Riveria says.
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Jules's self-absorption leads to occasional passages of wearying profundity, when the golden sentences begin to fray.
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" And it's a fantasy of a wearying sort, because Turtle has clearly been designed to be "empowering.
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There is no known cure for black lung, a wearying disease responsible for 78,000 deaths since 1968.
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Like Ellroy's earlier books, "This Storm" has short paragraphs, single-clause sentences and heightened, at times wearying repetition.
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The sequence feels like a mission statement for Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's plangent, encyclopedic, sometimes wearying documentary.
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It's a wearying and dehumanizing cycle of performance, and one this group of comics is determined to end.
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Our journey toward consequential communication and companionship seems as convoluted and wearying as it is in his fictions.
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This long and wearying decade is coming to a close, though, even if there's no sense of an ending.
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They may be wearying of housekeeping and home maintenance just at the point when their parents need more help.
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Just when her self-indulgence becomes wearying, she cuts through it with a critique of her own self-absorption.
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Shannara doesn't have Game Of Thrones' wearying brutality, but it also lacks characters with complicated morality and conflicting agendas.
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"'Married by Elvis' is like the ending to a long wearying night," Rockne wrote in an email to Noisey.
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The lack of expectations was wearying, but it was a freedom that's afforded to people without disabilities — a right.
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Wearying though the site can be, I can't imagine trying to make my way through the crisis without it.
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Wearying though the site can be, I can't imagine trying to make my way through the crisis without it.
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All that emphasis grew wearying, even deadening, and the climactic judgment scene was slowed to the point of trudging.
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They fret, sometimes at wearying length, about the "tension between document and fabrication" in various types of archive and narrative.
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For them, the extra cost is just another frustration; another burden to be carried by Egypt's increasingly wearying middle class.
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Sure, Mr. Morgan was mostly a delight, but elsewhere "The Walking Dead" indulged in some of its most wearying tendencies.
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"For example, it seems to be wearying for white people to hear about the racism in America," she said dryly.
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The only thing that makes our task less wearying and more worthwhile is living in the presence of true beauty and joy.
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The somewhat wearying effect is a forced sunniness, as against the emotional currents in the paintings of Hartley and, certainly, of Hopper.
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That wearying American political ritual repeated itself once again during a circuslike week in Virginia that was thick with accusations and apologies.
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But while Twin Peaks' arc was compelling to many of the fans who stuck with it, it was wearying and demoralizing as well.
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But sentimentality, preachiness, and a wearying obviousness get in the way of what should just be a close emotional portrait of his experience.
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There's a potentially toxic smugness to the entire film, as Deadpool smirks and swaggers through a long, eventually wearying series of creative executions.
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Even Mr. Trump had begun wearying of Ms. Manigault Newman's omnipresence in meetings by the middle of his first year, those people said.
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But she found the arrangement wearying, and she didn't like paying an accountant to handle the tax complications presented by her Airbnb income.
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If many of the aesthetic choices are weary or wearying, Bock's exhaustion is understandable: The effort to write this book must have been overwhelming.
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When she gives a reading or a talk, she is animated and quick to laugh, but fielding questions afterward can be a wearying effort.
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"From my desk I can watch her spend a good hour or more in wearying pursuit of game in an open rectangle of boxwoods."
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"From my desk I can watch her spend a good hour or more in wearying pursuit of game in an open rectangle of boxwoods."
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What's remarkable is that Flanagan, thanks largely to stellar performances from the ensemble, manages to make all this sibling drama feel suspenseful rather than wearying.
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It points to a new kind of middle-class dream, one free from wearying manual labor or the white-collar drudgery of cubicles and spreadsheets.
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The water in the pit, on the other hand, rarely freezes, and the birds saw it as a place to rest on their wearying journey.
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Finally, in a three-ring world of frenzied popular culture, the three-ring circus has become simply too wearying for a society perpetually bombarded by media.
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True to his form, Bowie worked within his own constraints—mainly, his wearying voice—to provide a lovely piece of art that serves his legacy right.
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Survivors have slowly returned to the Kilinochchi area, after months or even years in government rehabilitation camps, to undertake the wearying task of rebuilding their lives.
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His ancestors and kin were sharecroppers, coal miners, machinists, millworkers — all low-paying, body-wearying occupations that over the years have vanished or offered diminished security.
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"The more general oohing and ahhing over romantic couples that happens around Valentine's Day can also feel oppressive or just wearying to single people," says DePaulo.
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But "Macbeth Muet," which I saw at the end of a wearying day, sent me back onto the street refreshed, energized and pretty charmed as well.
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Despite its wearying preoccupation with Bureau mischief and Solomon's softening toward his target, "Seberg" has an old-fashioned glamour that can on occasion take your breath away.
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After the relief subsided (they're a wearying team to watch), the despair set in: This season will be over soon, and then what am I supposed to do?
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It's become a wearying, ugly observation, a media truism at once superficial and deep: if "The Apprentice" didn't get Trump elected, it is surely what made him electable.
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That said, the many representations of Trump that appear on your covers—most recently, Barry Blitt's impossible-to-unsee riff on a very naked President—have become wearying.
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But when you watch every movie already knowing exactly what people will write about the film, and then what the backlash will be, it gets a little wearying.
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The results can be thrilling or wearying, and sometimes both, as is the case with his latest, "Isle of Dogs," an animated movie set in a fantasy Japan.
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The Safdies, two of the more playfully inventive filmmakers working in American cinema, won't stop, either, which makes "Uncut Gems" fun if also wearying and at times annoying.
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It's become a kind of wearying ritual: The Academy leadership does something ill-advised, people take to Twitter in protest of that thing, and then the Academy reverses it.
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But as necessary as abuse survivors coming forward has been, when you're seeing your worst moments reflected back at you every time you refresh the page, it gets wearying.
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"The Commuter" reportedly cost $30 million to make, and its ticket sales are a sign that audiences might be wearying of Mr. Neeson's action movies (as our critic was).
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More broadly, the public was wearying of hyped-up controversies that, it was becoming clear, had little or no relevance to how a politician performed his or her job.
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But its imagining of Morrissey as a self-pitying narcissist, a curiously passive intellectual who can't get out of his own way, soaks the movie in a wearying inertia.
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Facing impeachment and a tough re-election campaign, the president may be wearying of the lawsuits and steady stream of criticism he has faced over the 263-room hotel.
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The science makes no sense, and the whole/hole wordplay and often too-fancy writing ("the trees sheltering the spaces, still in autumn splendor, drop heavily") can be wearying.
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But this particular iteration drives home that point in a manner that feels, on the tail end of a wearying year, like a deep point of relief, and even joy.
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The return of the Hound, revealed in a rare cold open, provided the spine of an episode that was largely about alliances productive and wearying, newly forged and torn asunder.
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Mr. Walker, who is from Colorado but now works in Brooklyn, said that the giant version of himself within it is a reaction to the wearying repetitive patterns of racism.
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He is more of an absence than a presence, and I think there is a strong possibility that he will soon resign — the purposelessness of his escapade makes it increasingly wearying.
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Then the inevitable letdown comes, everyone starts discovering the faults and pain points, and what was once a super exciting category of sci-fi tech becomes a wearying parade of inadequacy.
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It was confusing and wearying for Martin, trying to untangle these complicated and contradictory feelings while also putting together a massive theatrical production in the summer heat on a shoestring budget.
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When he met viewers in real life, whether children or adults, they were already welcome (even when the time he spent talking to visitors might have grown wearying for his crew).
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The Broncos lost Derek Wolfe to injury during the game, and the fact that Denver can't cobble together much of an offense surely has a wearying effect on its vaunted defense.
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She has not, as Trump noted, given up, but the fight has been a wearying spectacle, and one that may explain, at least in part, why people complain of Hillary Clinton fatigue.
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True, the burden of proof is on him to make a case for this "exciting" scientific revolution (whose discoveries just happen to regurgitate some of humanity's most pernicious, wearying and stubborn stereotypes).
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Eating sumptuous meals without apparent relish, jogging separately through impossibly gorgeous towns, and firing off celebrity impersonations with wearying one-upmanship, they perform with the competitive reflexivity of the longtime double act.
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Taking a small faction from a backwater power to a region-spanning empire often descended into long, wearying grinds against swarms of AI opponents who weren't so much adversaries as militant speedbumps.
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The Columbine High School massacre, as it has come to be known, has sparked a wearying number of copycat mass shootings, as well as music, books, movies, TV shows, and endless tortured reflection.
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Trying to evoke nonbinary experience for binary people, in a world where nearly everyone is raised with an either-or concept of gender, can feel liberating, but also futile: wearying, dispiriting, sometimes devastating.
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That kind of lightning in a bottle can't be recreated, a point ABC takes a wearying three hours to make on Wednesday night with its new, chemistry-free version of that beloved film.
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But it's all a bit wearying, and it's not lost on her that the human resources staff at many corporations serve up cheap Fidelity and Vanguard mutual funds to colleagues on a silver platter.
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Fantastic Beasts is a cluttered film, for various reasons — one is the wearying effort, so common to current franchise films, to set up a huge ongoing narrative at the expense of the current one.
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Still, I couldn't escape a feeling of wearying sameness — a sense of how Picasso, who abused his lovers, made them into formal experiments by using their bodies, but rarely captured what made them unique.
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Now, as we lunge toward our third decade of engagement in Afghanistan, we're learning again how insurgents, unlike wearying Western countries, are patient at playing the long game to advantage, showing resilience and craftiness.
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But it's all a bit wearying, and it's not lost on her that the human resources employees at many corporations serve up cheap Fidelity and Vanguard mutual funds to colleagues on a silver platter.
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It can be wearying to have notification behaviors shift every year, but the way they work in Android 10 is so convenient, simple, and intuitive that it makes all that experimentation feel worth it.
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The welcome exception to the wearying rule is Diana Hardcastle, playing the newly 18-year-old Jess, sister to the antic Mike (Michael Feast) and a possible amour of the smitten Tom (Roger Sloman).
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Although there are no anachronisms in the book, there are also no long, wearying pages describing the clothing of the period, or the system of belief, or set pieces about the political or social background.
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And that dignity is important in a series that can feel like it's endlessly, despairingly spinning its wheels, forcing its characters to fight the same wearying battle a thousand times over without making any progress.
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The notion of a younger generation calling out hypocrisy by actually taking the actions an older generation only bloviated about holds some appeal, but the play is more interested in validating several wearying middle-age fantasies.
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Yellow-vested protesters have become synonymous with anti-establishment feeling in France but the public shows signs of wearying of weekly protests, disorder and violence and a counter-protest movement has sprung up in recent weeks.
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She seemed to be wearying of the bleak task of exposing Herbalife's lures; occasionally, she worried about what she would be qualified to do after researching one company for one hedge fund for so many years.
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Reading about writers writing about writing can be a wearying proposition, but in Unferth's hands this endeavor feels expansive rather than myopic, thanks to her perceptive humor and her fierce way of tussling with her thoughts.
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"There are some players not as fit as me inside the top 10, 15 in the world," the 24-year-old told reporters at Melbourne Park on Saturday, quickly wearying of the continued attention over his weight.
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There was a wearying repetition to the vocabulary, which included an assortment of actions that never quite added up: a handstand with a bent knee, a limping walk and — moderately exciting — a hop with a twisting torso.
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The back half of Season 6 was overshadowed by his looming appearance, his arrival brought the misguided finale cliffhanger, and the gory Season 7 premiere kicked off a string of wearying episodes mired in setup and grief.
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Straight off a bone-wearying 24-hour journey, the Pakistani national baseball team went about its inaugural workout in the United States on Tuesday before the Coney Island backdrop of Nathan's Famous restaurant and the Cyclone roller coaster.
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He wrote about hydrangeas—though he was wearying of hydrangeas—and twice a year he was depended upon to write about the equinox (the moment when a precise division between day and night occurs should not pass unnoticed).
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It's a good thing that Mr. Antoncic and Ms. Loemij are beautiful movers with the subtlety of veteran dancers (she's been with Rosas since 1991), because the relentlessness of the choreography, running and rolling in circles, is wearying.
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While the Democratic primary race has at times seemed endless, with the same pair of candidates facing off in debates and speaking in town halls week after week, this wearying process is itself part of the payoff for Clinton.
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She and Sam made their first appearances of the season and education has made her effusive, which was less wearying to me — I find them both very charming — than it perhaps was to her green-at-the-gills companion.
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These early poems fail because they are staged as overwrought dramas between a "nature" too stably situated outdoors and Ammons, whose humility before creation is performed through a series of wearying guises, from pilgrim to hobo to minor prophet.
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I did briefly consider it after being there only for a week, then thought about missing the generative friction of New York, the force and fervor of New York life (that is often also wearying and at times repulsive).
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Although the event description speaks of the "the purported relaxing effects of a tea gathering" (emphasis mine), taking time out to drink freshly brewed tea and gaze at a Chinese bamboo garden sounds like a welcome respite from the wearying world.
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The wearying grind of the tour clashes with the effervescence of the band's lyrical preoccupations, which have shifted from youthful social commentary about topics such as bullying and the academic pressures of South Korean education toward uplifting messages of personal empowerment.
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Duppy Mary's Kingston hotel, Mary tells us, "offered care and comfort to those English people who found their constitutions ill-suited to the atmosphere of our island"—including a hysterical young white woman (Mendes, at a wearying fever pitch), who enters screaming.
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Ask him about the uselessness of carving the world up into tiers and binaries, about the fatuity of all these false choices, about how corrosive all this phony outrage is for all involved, how weary it is and how wearying it is.
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With a long day behind me and a wearying commute ahead of me, I don't want to settle for distraction; I want to look forward to reading my book with the palpitating excitement of a second date with someone I've already fallen for.
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Negan was intended to oppress the story and dispirit viewers, but the writers and Jeffrey Dean Morgan made it more wearying than it needed to be, the flashes of real charm and menace dulled by repetitive action and all those exclamations and backbends.
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Inevitably, the child becomes a bone of contention, and the attention to logistics—how the "youth fares" of the era will take Harriet, a sort of human parcel, back and forth across the Atlantic—consume the most wearying stretches of the letters.
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It is wearying to see yet another film like this in which women mostly exist either to say clueless and ineffectual things (in this one, that character is played by Catherine Keener) or to be collateral damage in the machinations of violent men.
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"The more general oohing and ahhing over romantic couples that happens around Valentine's Day can also feel oppressive or just wearying to single people," Bella DePaulo, author of Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After, told Refinery29.
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As Zeisler puts it, "The central pubic-hair argument that's raged in mainstream feminism for more than a decade" is commodity feminism at its most ridiculous, fragmenting a broad, potentially transformative political movement into a set of individual grooming choices — a sort of wearying reductio ad pudendum.
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But when this one started, I had a hard time fitting it in among all the other series and films I was trying to evaluate for work, and the more I heard about it (or edited other people's pieces about it), the more wearying it sounded.
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But that is the challenge facing the Carolinas after Hurricane Florence and a wearying week of heroic rescues, hard choices, potential environmental crises — including a dam breach on Friday that allowed coal ash to seep into a river — and a vast response that is still unfolding.
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Parikh says many of his friends on H-1B visas are considering moving back to India or another country, rather than go through the time-consuming, wearying process of staying in the U.S. As Parikh and his wife wait for his outcome, he says the uncertainty is stressful.
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This is also a problem in a number of other contemporary plays that deal with slavery or dominance and submission: there are no flesh-and-blood characters to enact the ideas, so the works remain just that—ideas, which grow increasingly wearying and outmoded even as they unfold onstage.
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It's bracing, like seeing an alien exhibition of our species, though one could do without the related posters and paratexts: Mr. Leckey has a wearying penchant for buttressing his projects with promotional materials for from his earlier shows, and should be confident enough now to let that go.
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Photo: John Raoux (AP)Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk added yet another wearying episode to our multi-month-long Musk news cycle this week by smoking weed on camera with podcast host Joe Rogan, sending Tesla's stock tumbling and triggering yet more speculation about his capacity to serve as CEO.
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In a move that seems at once tactful and tactical, she sidesteps the wearying debate among progressives over the competing priorities of class and identity politics, preferring to highlight the danger posed by a force that erupts at moments of progress to thwart the advance of democracy and racial equality.
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He can boast of a wearying fight over whether to let civilians direct traffic at construction sites, a public pension overhaul that will save the state billions and quicken the pulse of exactly zero activists in New Hampshire, an ambitious education reform drive that strengthened an already strong school system, and what else?
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Mr. Sahota gives us an intimate sense of the sheer grind of their daily existence: the trudging from one business to another in search of employment; the rejection and contempt they are subjected to by neighbors and employers; and the bone-wearying, sick-making labor they do on construction sites and in the sewers.
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But despite McKay's suspicion of "old forms" — despite his conviction that, circa 2018, the best use for a big megaphone is to deliver urgent and edifying messages as loudly as possible — spending all your time exploring the dark side can be wearying, especially if you spent much of your career chasing sillier and sillier ways to make strangers laugh.
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A lot of folks may want to explain away her appearance with the whole, "She's a royal, anything she could ever want is provided to her" thing, but let's be real: Unless a royal guard escorted Kate's newborn child out of her womb on a cloud of unicorn tears, there's not much that being rich and famous is gonna do to help the messy, wearying process that is childbirth.
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In a catalog wearying to relate, in just 72 hours last month we learned that Cesar Sayoc was radicalized on Facebook and threatened others on Twitter, before he sent pipe bombs to more than a dozen of President Trump's critics; that Robert Bowers shared conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic messages on Gab, before he allegedly killed 11 people and injured six others; and that Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing Brazilian politician best known for his pullulating hatreds (for homosexuals, Afro-Brazilians, women—pluralism itself), waged a campaign of disinformation on WhatsApp, before he won election as president.
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