Teachers have stifled creativity in the pursuit of the accumulation of facts, and parents have forced children to spend mind-numbing hours cramming for exams.
He spends mind-numbing weeks becalmed in the horse latitudes (so named, he interestingly reveals, because in the old days when becalmed here, thirsty mariners would pitch the poor things overboard).
In the past, employees sometimes found that it took weeks to get a copy of the pay information they needed to do their tax returns, and the department's staff spent mind-numbing hours answering the same questions from hundreds of different employees.
Prior research has suggested that students repeatedly report that much of the time during lectures or while studying is spent mind-wandering or daydreaming about topics unrelated to the current material (Brown, 1927; Szpunar, Moulton, & Schacter, 2013).
The team of Republican leaders planning to take over the House on Jan . 5is exploring a variety of changes intended to break the committee's spending mind-set, starting with the new majority's promise to slice $100 billion from President Obama's budget request for the current fiscal year.
Lord Ferg wants David Villa and youse are all idiots who say he hasn't got 40p to spend never mind £40m.
I love the clear-headed exhaustion that follows a hard run – body spent but mind miraculously clearer than the foggy-headed state I started in.
I mean, I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me.
I wouldn't half mind spending Christmas in Queenstown.
Actually, I don't mind spending more for L'Oréal.
I don't mind spending a lot of money on it, either.
