| However, in the context of commonplace and mind-numbing attacks on communism, his novel is freshly revisionist. |
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| The thought of being entertained purely by tap for an hour and twenty minutes sounds mind-numbing and mundane. |
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| Surprisingly, I am not suffering from my usual post-alcohol mind-numbing hangovers today. |
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| Go to their concerts today and the sensation is not so much one of shock as mind-numbing tedium. |
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| Well excuse me for interrupting your precious mind-numbing serial with actual news! |
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| Too much routine can be mind-numbing, just as too much spontaneity can be disorientating. |
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| The sheer, mind-numbing, senseless, stupid waste of life leaves the audience shocked by this evocation of life and death in the Great War. |
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| For the entire ride, those same questions whirled through his head with mind-numbing intensity. |
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| Cook's findings are presented in boringly linear sequence, fact following fact with mind-numbing monotony. |
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| I can tell you I've gotten into some real scraps in interstate buses to get them to turn off the mind-numbing all-night videos. |
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| And so the court's costs have continued to add up, day after mind-numbing day. |
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| You see, I wouldn't mind it at all if it wasn't so mind-numbing and soul-destroying. |
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| I'm not sure if the movie meant for this set-up to lead into hilarity or mind-numbing tedium. |
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| Thumbing a button, she raised the disc to her head and began to speak, intoning the routine blither in a stiflingly mind-numbing voice. |
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| Because four years of mind-numbing lectures have dulled my mental reflexes, I momentarily floundered in a sea of possible replies. |
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| It was mind-numbing stuff but it gave us the basic grounding in rugby skills. |
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| To single out Moore in an age of mind-numbing folksiness in politics is disingenuous. |
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| So people eventually came in and the day developed into the same mind-numbing tedium that I've come to expect. |
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| Long periods of winter training can lead to mind-numbing training sessions. |
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| Day in and day out, medical students are bombarded with information on a mind-numbing range of subjects. |
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| We stress the fact that ECs do not want to be limited to the mind-numbing task of managing the translation memory. |
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| The work traditionally assigned to women changed with industrialization, but remains just as mind-numbing and poorly paid. |
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| Data that takes forever to retrieve and use is a mind-numbing exercise in frustration. |
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| What I heard was a seemingly endless string of mind-numbing platitudes. |
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| It's how they deal with the mind-numbing tedium of riding long distances, the games the mind starts to play as your reach the end of your physical and mental tether. |
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| The number of devices, screen sizes, operating platforms, and support levels for small-screen browsing is mind-numbing. |
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| It's the relentless, mind-numbing repeat tasks that drive me up the wall, and sometimes I can't even be bothered to crawl back down again. |
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| This last 9 months in the wilderness of soul-destroying job applications and mind-numbing temp jobs had worn me down. |
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| And given their alfresco setting, they can also combat the mind-numbing monotony and confusion-inducing machinery of indoor strength training. |
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| So, apart from the mind-numbing tedium of it all, what was wrong and what was the solution? |
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| As one of his biographers noted, the statistics of his benefactions alone are mind-numbing. |
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| Despite continuing censorship, Chinese media have come a long way from the days of unrelenting and mind-numbing propaganda. |
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| The chambers were almost deserted, but a few senators were debating a mind-numbing bill about federal library services. |
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| An inexplicable, mind-numbing weariness settled over me, dank and clammy as pond-mist. |
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| Is there a thinking man or woman alive in Europe who is not depressed by the prospect of spending yet more years of bad-tempered debate on such mind-numbing details? |
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| The sums mentioned for NMD by official sources and in the literature are undeniably considerable, but by the mind-numbing standards of contemporary American military outlays, they are nothing extraordinary. |
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| In fact, the ensemble repeats the sequences danced by the soloists with mind-numbing regularity. |
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| We were treated to an immemorial, mind-numbing succession of addresses or statements by representatives of faiths from at least 70 corners of the world. |
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| Millions of children worldwide are trapped in mind-numbing subsistence-level labor of little economic value but which saps the creativity and learning potential of entire communities of future workers. |
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| For a nation that has long been closed off and subject to mind-numbing propaganda, RTS is making great strides towards explaining the traumatic events of the past decade. |
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| On the substantive side, many trial judges complain that the criminal law has taken on complexities and subtleties the likes of which are truly mind-numbing. |
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| There is the mind-numbing spectacle of the maquiladora export processing zone for all the proof you will ever need that free trade dishonours the standards of North America. |
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| They career from human comedy to mind-numbing vulgarity. |
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| Also to blame is a press with a limited appetite for mind-numbing budgets. |
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| After two years of mind-numbing lessons in classical music, he finally realised the degree wasn't for him and decided to set up a recording studio with one of his mates. |
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| The story described the main character's wristwatch in mind-numbing detail. |
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| After hours of mind-numbing work sorting hundreds of nearly identical form, he needed to stop and do something else. |
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| He has no use for the mind-numbing bloat of Ringling Brothers nor does he like the light-show and acrobatics of Cirque du Soleil. |
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| This literal difference in duration does not detract from a work's capacity to induce hypnotic, mind-numbing, humorous or even claustrophobic effects. |
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| The mind-numbing natural disaster which has killed thousands and blighted the lives of millions in South Asia will not fade from our consciousness for some time yet. |
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| Less than a month to the elections, and ahead lies a bombardment of mind-numbing party political messages to rival the deadly effusions of a Death Star. |
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| They are also at risk of exposing themselves to some dangerous mind-numbing filler segments and it's advert-free too. |
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| Proving that everyone has their off days, it's an exercise in mind-numbing pretension, interspersed with grotesque violence. |
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| The good news was that I would be on disability for six weeks, so I wouldn't have to report in my mind-numbing day Job as a secretary. |
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| While Lewis's argument is cogent and comprehensive, it is also mind-numbing in its supporting detail. |
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| The compliannce burden imposed on these companies under Notice 88-89 is mind-numbing. |
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| Our collection of down-insulated, technical and travel inspired outerwear will protect you in conditions that range from the mind-numbing cold of Antarctica to the gale force winds on the North Sea. |
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| Ray wanted to explain that a quick nip after breakfast and before lunch made the mind-numbing labor of sticking letters in their appropriate boxes go by a little smoother. |
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| This environment generated a sometimes mind-numbing dash to management by all prospective corporate ladder climbers. |
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| Childhoods are wasted in mind-numbing subsistence-level labor that produces minimal economic value, while leaching away the creativity and potential of future workers. |
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| Six or seven years later, as a young actor down to his last roll-up, I heard of an agency that offered unskilled, mind-numbing work to unemployed thesps. |
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| Either we are the product of a unique supernatural event in a universe of profligate overprovision, or else an accident of mind-numbing improbability and irrelevance. |
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| In the midst of mind-numbing horror and devastation, he wrote the simple guileless words, which even today inspire images not only of loss and destruction, but also of hope and renewal. |
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| Having reached their 30s or 40s, when they can no longer do mind-numbing, fast-paced and finicky work on production lines, they will often go back to the countryside. |
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| Perhaps it is time to clear out the current leadership and their mind-numbing negativity that stretches back over 400 years of bigotry and hatred. |
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| I go into all this in mind-numbing detail in my opuscule Bye Bye, Miss American Empire. |
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| Mind you, BLUE MURDER was so spectacularly dreadful it needed a star of monumentally mind-numbing dullness, so a touch of rigor mortis was a definite advantage. |
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| The mind-numbing jargon used by hedging practitioners often can stupify the uninitiated. |
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| If Adele wants some famerelieving therapy I recommend she turn up at a factory gate next Monday morning and do an eight-hour mind-numbing shift on a production line. |
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