(n.) The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
Example Sentences:
(1) He loved the excitement and the glitter of his post, but could never really accept the hours of drudgery and tedium that the job of Liberal leader involved.
(2) The circumstances, a malaise of drudgery and petty distraction in the society around him, are described, and his general wish "to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived".
(3) A data acquisition system that automatically discards corrupted or undesirable signals would save untold hours of drudgery for researchers.
(4) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
(5) It would be unfortunate if urodynamicists were required to learn of the phenomena and their implications by the drudgery of repeated measurements rather than taking guidance from previous work.
(6) But in 1963, when Gloria Steinem went undercover in the New York club for Show magazine, she described a life of swollen feet, drudgery, "demerits" for laddered tights or scruffy tails, and a constant low-level thrum of sexual harassment.
(7) Hundreds of passionate feminists, female and male, are walking to rally against the daily violence, discrimination and drudgery women across the world continue to face.
(8) Instead of dwelling on the drudgery, I concentrated on that day’s assignment.
(9) Fluoxetine is a significant step in that direction, he argued, and we would inevitably possess drugs that "reduce the common experiences of drudgery such as going to work on Monday mornings for those who, at present, are not seen as suffering from a mood disorder, without obvious side effects or 'impairment' in judgment."
(10) At their best, soaps find drama in the everyday and the mark of Wainwright’s work is that, however dramatic, there is a respect for the drudgery and humdrum nature of much of life.
(11) A collision of technologies, indoor plumbing, electricity and the affordable automatic washing machine have all but put paid to large laundries and the drudgery of hand-washing,” says the report.
(12) It is intuitively obvious that the longer you are expected to drudge, the less productive your drudgery is likely to be.
(13) The more hours of drudgery you endure the more of a mother you are and, therefore, the more important your job is.
(14) Leaving for another day the question of admiration, since only a barrister can really know how much pain is incurred when legal drudgery is sacrificed for the cut and thrust of baby pilates, it was Mr Clegg's shared belief, with Laura Perrins, that "choice" is involved in the average working parents' lives that was most unworthy.
(15) If he became an MP and Cameron won a second term, Johnson would have to accept some form of ministerial drudgery which might take the shine of his star quality.
(16) Otherwise it is just thankless drudgery – no less demoralising and demotivating than long-term unemployment.
(17) It is argued that the HGP is a new form of coordinated, interdisciplinary science; that its primary objective must be seen as the creation of a tool for biomedical research--a source book that will be the basis of study of variation and function for a long time; that the impact on scientist training will be salutary by relieving graduate students of useless drudgery and by training scientists competent in both molecular genetics and computational science; and that the funding of the HGP will have an insignificant negative effect on science funding generally, and indeed may have a beneficial effect through economy of scale and a focusing of attention on the excitement of biology and medical science.
(18) They say that the drudgery of life beats the anonymity of death.
(19) SCORE, a program for computer-assisted scoring of Southern blots of clone DNA, retains the use of expert human judgment while taking over much of the drudgery of the scoring task.
(20) I don't seek inspiration, and my work is also not a horrible drudgery.
Razzmatazz
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) For all the media razzmatazz, the big economic decisions and announcements are almost always made elsewhere.
(2) Today saw the largest military parade that North Korea has ever witnessed: a blend of sheer force and razzmatazz.
(3) Reputations riding on the iPhone 6 Amid all the razzmatazz of Apple's latest launch – including a live performance from U2, and iTunes account holders receiving the band's new album whether they wanted it or not – it is easy to forget that the success of the iPhone 6 and Watch is crucial for its chief executive, Tim Cook, and highly paid retail guru, Angela Ahrendts.
(4) Dein was fascinated by the high-rolling razzmatazz of American sport and frustrated by the endless sub-committees of the Football League, the competition to which his club then belonged.
(5) It was difficult to think of another FA Cup final when the winning manager has been condemned so quickly and, if that will be remembered as an embarrassment for United, there was an awkward sub-plot for the Football Association as well, bearing in mind the ridiculous razzmatazz that preceded the game.
(6) "We didn't go pink and we didn't want razzmatazz," said Annette Phillips, superintendent registrar.
(7) Razzmatazz and balloons is not going to be the mood at the next election.
(8) It seems in keeping with his film-making style that there is no razzmatazz about Thin Man Films’s headquarters.
(9) The conference slogan will be “Straight talking, honest politics” – an echo of the Corbyn leadership campaign in which he shunned razzmatazz in favour of hundreds of unrehearsed and often unscripted speeches.
(10) Barron Trump, 10, joined his father, Donald, and mother Melania, at the noisy, razzmatazz climax of the Republican national convention in Cleveland, his parents keeping a protective hand on him as rock music blared and the arena erupted.
(11) Their continuation suggests next year's Oscars will maintain the air of showbiz razzmatazz that saw a number of old-school song and dance numbers, as well as Theron and Channing Tatum's elegant waltz.
(12) Bolland suggests that M&S has avoided these disasters because of the strong sourcing policies of Plan A, which was billed as costing £200m over five years when it launched in January 2007 with typical Rose razzmatazz , but has since saved the company £320m.
(13) Amid the razzmatazz of Geneva, much of the talk on the sidelines among European manufacturers will be how to take capacity out of an industry that is suffering from a severe production glut.
(14) Tony Smythe has no doubt what his father would think of the modern Everest scene, and the fight that took place on the mountain this spring : "He would have been horrified by the whole thing – the razzmatazz and the vast numbers going up there.
(15) What’s the point hanging around for the fight when he can fight [Juan Manuel] Márquez, [Brandon] Rios or [Keith] Thurman.” The rumbling, velvet tones of the MC, Michael Buffer, welcomed the home favourite to the ring with unmistakable razzmatazz and, having taken the measure of his man with the jab in round one, Brook set about unravelling Dan’s evening in the next round.
(16) In contrast to Yes Scotland’s razzmatazz, the Better Together launch at Napier University’s futuristic silver auditorium at Craiglockhart in Edinburgh a month later was a far more sober affair.