Sentence examples for dreary exercise from inspiring English sources

That has made them poorer.The past six months could be seen as a dreary exercise in sharing out the pain.

Looking over the photos from the rain-soaked premiere of The Great Gatsby at Cannes was a pretty dreary exercise.

They are there to teach problem-solving, but so, too, are the dreary exercises of Hanon and Czerny, bogymen of every child at the keyboard.

All of the main actors return for this forced and dreary-looking exercise directed by the animator David Bowers.

Jack Shafer, the editor at large for Slate, spoke for a lot of folks when he let rip recently about the dreary hegemony exercised over the presidential campaign by the same 10 pundits mouthing canned political "insights" as they wagged their big bobbleheads.

He seems to have misplaced it in the intervening five years: "My Soul to Take," his first feature since, is a thoroughly dreary, by-the-numbers exercise.

You go, Max! Would that the rest of your clan shared your experience; before long, readers might be spared lengthy exercises in dreary Kennedy hagiography.

In a disenchanted world of production and consumption, he argues, some of us look to re-enchant our dreary selves through religious observance or spiritual exercises to become more than mere homo economicus.

It was budget day and, in an otherwise dreary address, the chancellor announced that the research assessment exercise (RAE) was finished.

So maybe the question is not, "Why do people stay home in dreary weather?" as much as, "Why do some go out and exercise anyway?" Dr. Buckworth said that, in her experience, it was the people who were new to exercise who gave up in bad weather.

You might hit on a type of exercise that becomes a fun outlet instead of a dreary chore.