There may be moments of mind-warping genius in films like Orphée and Twin Peaks but these are more than offset by hours of tedium.
Even going to the gym in the evening isn't enough to offset nine hours of sitting still in the office, according to studies.
Deep in the Gallic soul resides the notion that work is exploitation, a ruse concocted by American robber barons, best regulated and minimized and offset by hours of idleness.
PMM1289, PMM0577, and PMM1697, cycle similarly but not identically: PMM1289 begins to accumulate in early morning, peaks at mid-day, and is followed by PMM0577 and PMM1697 with a 2 hour offset (Figure 8B).
The brace he wore for his bad right knee wasn't offsetting 18 hours of standing.
The 90 seconds of absurd, attention-grabbing sex were not enough to offset the two hours of talky tedium in Cormac McCarthy's screenplay.
Opponents of higher minimum wages, however, argue that many workers' wage gains will be offset by lost hours due to increased labor costs.
These observed differences were not clinically significant (the difference in mean offset at 72 hours was only 16.5 min).
For day condition, long-day-grown (16 h light/8 h dark) plants were harvested 1 hour before offset of light and for night condition the plants were harvested 1 hour before onset of light.
Claiming the experiment a success, the city doubled the cordon zone in 2007 and reduced the enforcement period by one hour to offset the change.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec. 9 — Venezuelans turned their clocks back half an hour on Sunday, putting them in the company of people in other nations that offset time in half-hour increments from Greenwich Mean Time, like Afghanistan, India, Iran and Myanmar.
