| The whisper of a breeze was not enough to fill the sails and the ship moved excruciatingly slowly. |
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| Flat, pedestrian writing and excruciatingly slow pacing keep the show stuck in first gear. |
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| It is also written in excruciatingly careful prose, belying the pointedness of its conclusions. |
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| Louis was listening to the man's bragging, his manner growing increasingly frosty, and Beth appeared excruciatingly uncomfortable. |
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| Casey ran around the small oval, puffing and panting, limping on her left foot, the blister throbbing excruciatingly. |
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| The alto flute is heavy and tiring to play, and any piece longer than about 10 minutes without breaks is excruciatingly painful to perform! |
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| His hands were bound excruciatingly tightly to the thick steel pole running along the back of his neck. |
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| His jaw had to be chiseled away at, literally gouged out in an excruciatingly painful operation that took almost an hour. |
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| The cuts are treated with tigasso and are excruciatingly painful until they heal, though it is said they rarely become infected. |
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| When the most basic things aren't being done, or done so excruciatingly badly, it just makes me despair. |
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| Peta's meetings with strangers are sometimes funny, occasionally ridiculous or excruciatingly embarrassing. |
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| The drive had been excruciatingly silent in the twenty minutes it had taken them to exit the city and venture along the main highway. |
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| The hours that followed were some of the most excruciatingly frustrating I have ever experienced. |
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| They are a genial, amiable lot, and they come across as personable and excruciatingly ethical in the course of the series. |
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| Each took a cracker and then proceeded to chew loudly, excruciatingly slowly, while the audience laughed somewhat nervously. |
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| Even now in our more mature years, the stance is excruciatingly difficult to maintain when one's bladder is especially full. |
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| Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim has heard the only way to succeed in the NCAA Tournament is to play an excruciatingly difficult non-league schedule. |
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| The honour of being humiliated at an excruciatingly early stage is not yet ours. |
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| After we exchanged pleasantries she asked me about the story I told last week, which detailed my excruciatingly boring job. |
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| His face emanates a still fury, sweat pouring freely from it as the door gently, excruciatingly, closes. |
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| This tour is excruciatingly banal and juvenile, lightened only by the silly antics of his friend Joe. |
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| So you'll know then not to use your own excruciatingly exacting standards as a yardstick for judging others this week, won't you? |
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| It's a good track, well constructed, blazing along with a blast of Blink 182-like zippiness, but the backing vocals are excruciatingly bad. |
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| Neither sounded very pleasant, for he knew both would be excruciatingly long and torturous. |
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| Throughout the 60s and 70s, Jack Lemmon was typecast as a tense, neurotic, excruciatingly insecure pen pusher. |
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| At times it's excruciatingly well-observed and cruel, but without being totally unsympathetic. |
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| The excruciatingly beautiful clockwork ballerina's not by the Tate, which, though tragic, merely leaves me still idling along with no goal. |
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| The best writers I know and read are excruciatingly aware of the perilousness of their situation. |
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| The affected area becomes excruciatingly painful and sensitive to the touch. |
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| For me the superstition that made the country folk of England nail owls to barn doors to repel evil forces is detestable and excruciatingly painful to think of. |
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| Although it can kill if it enters the lungs, blister gas is used mainly to weaken infantry by making the skin break out in excruciatingly painful blisters. |
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| Training an impartial, professional, and trusted Kosovo-based domestic police force also occurred at an excruciatingly slow pace. |
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| I'm short, skinny and have excruciatingly underdeveloped social skills. |
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| The poor actress overacts excruciatingly as the vengefully posh blueblood. |
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| For a tearjerker with modest ambitions, this film is excruciatingly inept. |
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| It's the only point of interest in his excruciatingly drab life, which is rendered more unhappy by his incessant bullying at the hands of seven overbearing sisters. |
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| The journey was excruciatingly long for the establishmentarians and cost them more than they ever anticipated. |
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| In the case of the excruciatingly slow-growing red abalone, this could be ten to twelve years. |
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| In April 1887 Herzogenberg developed an excruciatingly painful condition in the right leg, resulting in his becoming bedridden. |
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| The rapper will.i.am was one such panelist, forced upon Gregory for an excruciatingly awkward roundtable segment. |
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| In an excruciatingly competitive industry like financial services, all of us are stretching and striving for all the edge we can get. |
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| Inner restlessness, which can be excruciatingly distressing and which only sometimes is manifested in outward restless movements. |
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| But insider interests and institutional inertia make reforming an entire country at best excruciatingly slow. |
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| After that excruciatingly torturous dentist appointment, it's back home. |
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| Unfortunately, Canada's progress on meeting its national and international commitments to protecting marine life has been excruciatingly slow. |
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| The forms f the female body are excruciatingly tormenting because of their inscrutable charm. |
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| But when Westboro came to town, they made it excruciatingly clear what hate really looked like. |
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| Other people might know more than the tender about Meyin, and he planned to ask around, but he knew that the next nine and a half hours would drag by excruciatingly slowly. |
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| Early on during the descent, Joe broke his leg, forcing Simon to lower him down by two 150 ft. ropes, in an excruciatingly slow and painful manner for both climbers. |
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| It's cheaply made, shambolically written, diabolically acted, badly directed and excruciatingly awful. |
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| She is not, as they say, a woman's woman, but why wasn't Tre quizzed about his childcare arrangements or accused, by an excruciatingly flirty Nick Warnock, of having lips made for sin? |
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| She underwent an excruciatingly painful labour and her baby died in her womb before being removed by an operation with no anaesthetic by a doctor using a razor blade. |
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| But the tragedies of eroded civil rights are excruciatingly small scale – just one person's liberty at a time … until those rights completely gone, of course. |
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| It's very funny but also excruciatingly exposing. |
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| That must be excruciatingly painful for family life. |
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| In the few excruciatingly long seconds it took for the car to stop to a halt, I distinctly remember the feeling of sheer terror in the pit of my guts. |
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| The butcher sawed excruciatingly slowly through bone and sinew. |
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| The stingrays have got venom on their barb, so I'm sure it was excruciatingly painful. |
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| And beware the gormless-looking stonefish, whose sting is the deadliest and most excruciatingly painful known to man. |
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| Some of it, particularly in the first half, is excruciatingly funny, and all of it has been brought off in a spirit of burlesque merriment — violent absurdity pushed to the level of flagrancy and beyond. |
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| Part of the trouble was that they were irritated by Ebsworth's lifelong habit of coming out with excruciatingly awful puns, which Durham academia thought unbefitting in their vice chancellor. |
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| A 51-year-old man presented with an excruciatingly painful lytic lesion in his first lumbar vertebral body. |
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| But in fact I was diagnosed with something called symphysis pubis dysfunction which was excruciatingly painful whenever I had to walk, and even lying down became painful too. |
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| My hunger was now tormenting me excruciatingly, and gave me no rest. |
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| But Josh Gad, plopped in an armchair next to Crystal and kibitzing with him about the excruciatingly pepper-obsessed restaurant they visited recently, looks very much at ease. |
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