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).
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).
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.
"The amount of money being spent is mind-boggling".
He spent three mind-numbing months whipping egg whites for the pastry chef to fold, and then was promoted to full time in the cold-starter section.
Only in the UAE could millions be spent on mind-bogglingly ornate hotels, yet tourism be dismissed as "something we're not really interested in".
We spent a mind-bending amount of time just playing; it was like being an incredibly spoilt womanchild with a doll's house.
Incidentally, Mr. Bush, who has already spent a mind-boggling $52 million, will soon have to ask his backers for more money.
Hours are spent on mind-numbing calendar negotiations.
