Sentence examples for humdrum work from inspiring English sources

To Depression audiences, Grandpa Vanderhof and his eccentric family, which avows hobbies at the expense of humdrum work and has the resources to indulge them, struck a chord.

But clients no longer want to pay fat fees for a bit of strategic advice from a senior partner and a lot of humdrum work from neophytes.

Ántonia is made into an icon of tenacity: she survives her father's suicide, the closure of the family farm, humdrum work as a hired girl, predatory males.

A diplomat who doubles as a spy will typically become agitated when he stops doing humdrum work and switches to the secret stuff, says Joe Navarro, a former FBI man.

Anticipating humdrum work, which was fine with her inasmuch as she and her husband, Terrell, a GTE executive, were rearing one, then two young boys, she found it anything but.

As well as the humdrum work of disarming combatants, repatriating refugees and so on, those that succeed also pursue three more ambitious aims: the commemoration of the victims, economic development and (temporarily) the restraint of social divisions.Commemoration reassures survivors, and all those who doubt the sincerity or durability of peace agreements.

Gervais always believed you should write what you know, so when he sat down to create The Office with Stephen Merchant, he set it in the moribund Home Counties where he grew up, in a humdrum working environment not unlike the one where he'd spent the best part of a decade.

He played it down, Mr. Shays recalled, characterizing it as humdrum desk work.

She describes the former first lady as a "workhorse, not a show horse," with an "instinct for organization" and a talent, like Mr. Rockefeller's, for combining visionary ideas with the humdrum legislative work that makes them happen.

Similar rates of growth are being recorded in the next tier of Indian IT firms with revenues around the $1 billion mark Satyam, HCL Technologies and Cognizant (an American firm, but with 21,000 of its 27,000 staff in India).Indian IT grew fat on the relatively humdrum software work needed to fix the "Y2K" millennium bug at the end of the 20th century.

The insects humdrum existence and work orientated lifestyle however is being aimed at Japan's masses of stressed out salary men, a group whose equally humdrum office existence and company focused life appears to disturbingly mirror those of ants – virtual or real.