Sentence examples for tedious exercises from inspiring English sources

While hapless actors grope their way through these tedious exercises, the audience blindly searches for anything recognizable from the originals.

Amateur musicians, for example, tend to spend their practice time playing music, whereas pros tend to work through tedious exercises or focus on difficult parts of pieces.

Although there is an emphasis on more rather than fewer hours of practice (Bhogal et al., 2003), compliance with prolonged (and often tedious) exercises outside an intensive research setting may be difficult to achieve.

Unlike Botox, SMR needs months of tedious exercising, during which musicians cannot work.

He's a tedious exercise in relentless product placement transparently modelled on Jason Bourne.

He thinks of it as a largely tedious exercise of checking traps.

But ultimately "In the Shadow of the Maggot" is a somewhat tedious exercise in nostalgia and revved-up mimicry.

He enjoyed the companionship during this rather tedious exercise in ground-truthing and thinks the cow did, too.

Subjects were willing to help out — moving a couch, performing a tedious exercise on a computer — when they were offered a reasonable wage.

His first American studio effort, "Wanted" (2008), is a modestly diverting if finally tedious exercise in which the stylized violence almost upstages its star, Angelina Jolie.

Even Dr Alexander's (Emilia Fox) professional crisis, prompted by performing the autopsy on the murdered girl, came across as a tedious exercise in self-obsession.