| Craig Storper's adaptation of Lauran Paine's novel is riddled with cornball dialogue that unfolds in grindingly earnest platitudes. |
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| The autonomous region is now in the next stage of a grindingly long battle between tradition and modernity. |
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| If not a grindingly deep scholar, Mr Holland has read widely and absorbed the literature intelligently. |
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| When I have accidentally fallen into work of this sort, I've found it grindingly difficult and often baffling. |
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| But the years have passed and, while the landscape remains harsh, it is not as grindingly poor as it once was. |
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| The reality of the life so glamorised in the Hollywood Western was one of grindingly hard work and constantly struggling against the natural elements. |
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| The grindingly slow asylum process, where cases sometimes take eight years to complete, has cost taxpayers dearly. |
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| It also pokes relentless fun at the grindingly obvious conventions of the cartoons themselves. |
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| It is intolerable that this grindingly slow process should eat into the country finances when a simple resolution is at hand. |
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| The FA Cup Final became a grindingly familiar war of attrition. |
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| But the process by which requests are signed-off by Whitehall departments and scrutinised by the Commons Welsh Affairs Select Committee has been grindingly slow. |
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