Sentence examples for pushing paper from inspiring English sources

"That's not pushing paper".

At least, pushing paper, I can remember Dad as he was.

Less time would be wasted on ministerial meetings and cabinet committees, pushing paper around Whitehall.

"I was working endless hours, pushing paper, not feeling fulfilled in any way," she told me.

I just think this is a great experience — you're hands on, you're doing more things, you're not just pushing paper.

Instead of pushing paper, she hoists 20-pound bags of flour, gets burned and occasionally slices open a finger.

"You got guys out there making more than that pushing papers around a desk.

In Soviet times, he was pushing papers around in KGB offices and conducting surveillance of dissidents.

AFTER seven years as a secretary in the psychiatry department at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, India Rouault said, she was "tired of pushing papers".

The students said they were not learning to communicate effectively, even as the essential job skills evolve from pushing papers to answering phones to making presentations.

This leisurely paced film, threaded with exquisitely sad chamber music (by Jocelyn Pook), is really an extended metaphysical meditation on the abstractions of the modern corporate workplace and the anomie of pushing papers and crunching numbers.