Sentence examples for boring planning from inspiring English sources
Once, in my possibly rose-tinted memory, phone numbers had to be prised out of assiduously cultivated contacts, the cultivating probably done over a pint or two or in a dusty council chamber at the end of an epically boring planning meeting.
But there's a wider context, involving a long and frankly quite boring planning saga.
For those of you who (like me) haven't gone to West Point or Annapolis, let me be clear: tactics are small-bore battlefield plans and actions; while strategy is the "big picture" campaign for winning.
If it looked like Romney could cruise to victory based on his charm and the moribund economy, then the smart move for him would have been to play it safe and stick with the "incredibly boring white guy" plan on which he had reportedly settled.
62nd over: England 217-4 (Thorpe 31, Flintoff 5) Bravo persists with his line well outside off stump; he's planning on boring Flintoff into submission.
Forbes.com: Or maybe it's just because talking about estate planning is boring for a lot of people?
Set in the kind of crumbling mansion that invariably comes with a loon-haunted lake and a gruff handyman who knows more than he's letting on, this handsome throwback follows a lonely child, Sally (Bailee Madison), whose distracted father (Guy Pearce, bored to tears) plans to renovate the home under the direction of his considerably younger girlfriend (Katie Holmes).
Most recently, the campaign has come out with a series of small-bore, populist energy plans — a windfall-profits tax on oil companies, a crackdown on speculators, a partial opening of the strategic oil reserve — that seem more political than economic.
(Lydia, aged 14) I jot down just a few sentences when I get an idea, but then – and I know this possibly irritates some teachers who like people to make plans beforehand – I find planning a bit boring.
Why are the shows it's planning so allegedly boring?
