Sentence examples for how thankless from inspiring English sources

Nor should we imagine that those who opt for the developmental leagues have made it; minor-league baseball and the lower tiers of European soccer remind us how thankless and poorly compensated such a life can be.

If Cleo finds her job dreary – and Roma doesn't skimp on how thankless his blindly privileged family often made it for her – Cuarón's cinematic thank-you letter effectively takes pride in it for her.

A bad Christmas flushes a year's toil down the drain; the growing phenomenon of "pop-up" shops is testament to how thankless the other 11 months of the year are in modern retailing.

Hospital directors were angry at being judged by these nave people who would come and go in a day and not realize how limited the resources are, how little the public cares, how thankless the task.

But another encounter with "Equus" reminded me how thankless long stretches of the role can be, as Dysart makes like a sleuth in an Agatha Christie novel, ferreting out the roots of the horse-blinding mystery in interviews with the disturbed boy, Alan Strang Sam Underwoodd), and his family and friends.

You are clearly a referee and I will avoid any references to Specsavers because having worked alongside some refs in their day jobs I appreciate how thankless a job it can be at times.

Yet inside Northern Ireland the agreement looks like a fine example of another truth: how depressingly thankless politics can be.

He marveled at how grueling and thankless the work is.

AMY BERNSTEIN: Lise is here to talk more about why women volunteer for thankless tasks and how doing that gets in our way.

There has been a lot written about how gamification of mundane or thankless tasks is the next big thing, and I think Man v Fat Football shows that harnessing people's competitive nature can lead to a big step forward in terms of weight loss.

Difficult, messy, risky and often thankless is simply how it feels to lead.