We need them to safeguard us against drabness and drudgery, against a mechanistic and wearisome utilitarianism. |
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A great deal of our consumption of entertainment has replaced the mindless drudgery that once occupied many hours of most people's days. |
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Most British workers eagerly look forward to their customary summer holidays to get away from everyday working drudgery. |
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The 6th is concerned with drudgery and labour and holds no promise of advancement. |
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My reason is that the removal of the time-consuming and tiring drudgery has produced a paradox. |
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Is it a result of our liberation from the chains of domestic drudgery that so many women shun skirts these days? |
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As women become liberated from domestic drudgery, are they in danger of losing something fundamental? |
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When a worker is burnt, it's a reminder that the workday drudgery, for Dad, could be fatal. |
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In the end, the trip does not serve its purpose, and most come back haggard, with another week of drudgery awaiting them. |
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The physical drudgery involved in the Tour is the same for any cyclist, but Millar could express it in graphic terms. |
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The introduction of communal laundries and restaurants was part of lifting the daily drudgery for women in the individual home. |
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Money and luxuries were scarce in their early days and drudgery and the hard way of doing all housework, and farmwork were the order of the day. |
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In as far as farm drudgery and prison could offer a good life at all, things weren't bad compared to life in British jails at the time. |
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At the prospect of spending the rest of her life in this cycle of inhuman drudgery, suicide became a genuine consideration. |
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Work is shown as unremitting drudgery, keeping us down and continually reminding us of our essential failure. |
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Exercise can become pure drudgery when it's never accompanied by a playful or recreational aspect. |
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Run as he might, he just can't escape the demons of low-wage kitchen-job drudgery. |
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Ash is a star player, one of the best in her field, escaping from the realities of life's drudgery into the confines of this hi-tech wargame. |
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This would release humankind from the drudgery of wage-slavery and release the latent talents of 3 billion people. |
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Natasha works in retail, and attempts to find meaning and significance in the daily drudgery of life. |
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Mrs. E.'s kindergarten met in various buildings during those halcyon years before the drudgery of first grade claimed me. |
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My long weekend is nearly over and then it is back to the drudgery of the workplace. |
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This can be achieved without drudgery, clock-watching and mindless, boring repetitions. |
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She had been married to him when she was twelve or thereabouts, embarking on a life of poverty, drudgery and lovelessness. |
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An eye catching assistant often relieves the magician from the drudgery of bamboozlement. |
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The last bastion of domestic drudgery is about to fall thanks to the development of the world's first automatic ironing machine. |
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But the factory, and the soul-destroying drudgery of assembly line work, was the fate of most. |
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Life sure is going to change for the stayers when they realise that all the ordinary people in drudgery jobs will have bailed out. |
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All may not be hearts and flowers in her version of domesticity, but neither is she making heavy-handed comments about drudgery. |
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The tale of the Basque hotelkeeper Lyda Esain captures graphically the challenges and drudgery of owning and operating such an enterprise. |
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Indeed, clanging bells offered some exhilaration to counter the drudgery of life spent in the fields. |
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One has to be a certain age to remember the soggy, steamy awfulness that was the drudgery of washdays when it involved galvanised tubs, poss-sticks and mangles. |
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Improving living standards by developing new water infrastructure also implies reducing drudgery and promoting hygiene. |
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Ayan, 14, had to swap her schoolbooks for the daily drudgery of a housemaid. |
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Job began to speak: Is not man's life on earth nothing more than pressed service, his time no better than hired drudgery? |
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But the people must go on, living with the drudgery and shortages that war brings: little water, firewood or food. |
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For a year and a half, you did that dispiriting, desperate drudgery. |
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After 20 years of drudgery to pay off the loan, she bumps into her rich friend and finally confesses the truth, only to be told that the lost necklace was a fake. |
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The accompanying drudgery was worth it and if you have ever tried to lift a set of heavy horse harness you will have some idea of the effort required. |
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All his life Nelson was profoundly aware of the drudgery of toil, whether on the furrow or the lower deck, and humanely responsive to the concerns of the least privileged. |
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She does this first to sexlessly amuse herself out of her relationship drudgery and second because of her theory that women respond to women, not men. |
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Eddie watched the training drudgery from the shelter of the pavilion. |
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We coo over how cute our cat is and minimize the drudgery of cleaning the litter box. |
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There will be no toil, assignments, chores, no drudgery or daily efforts. |
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With the game being a drudgery of spilled balls, abject kicking and woeful execution of the few scoring opportunities that were created the mind wandered. |
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That is said with zero disrespect for the hard work, and often drudgery, that those jobs entail. |
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For many Afghan women, a life of violence, drudgery and ill health is the best they can expect. |
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On Monday she was scheduled for a full day of press to promote the series, drudgery under the best of circumstances. |
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And then there are folks like Wesselman-Pierce who just want a break from the drudgery of real life. |
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Apparently this symbolises jobs done by women, but with its leaden literalism it misses the point of memorials and just reminds you of housework and faceless drudgery. |
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But even then, the chance to observe some uninhibited gay nooky would indeed enliven the drudgery of the weekly shop. |
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Hoping to bring democracy to the workplace, Propst had instead ushered in the cubicle, a billion-dollar industry and a metonym for drudgery. |
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Though his club, as do most, pay petrol expenses, the drudgery of driving along dark glens in the depths of winter is a serious test of his commitment. |
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And when the Tories were wobbling just two months ago, it seemed that Brown's drudgery might just pay off. |
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Our work is not drudgery, but something we are to take pleasure in today. |
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It was literally my one chance to express myself or to resign myself to a life of drudgery in a factory. |
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Only the small matter of prizes sits between us and another 12 months of Cannes-less drudgery. |
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All the pledges and debates and drudgery all over again, but this time underlined by an inescapable sense of resignation. |
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What would be high service for one person might be utter drudgery to another. |
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It is also possible that technological changes will reduce the drudgery of work, thus helping to lengthen the active life of workers. |
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Would the electric motor that Nikola Tesla introduced in 1899 result in less drudgery? |
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Early in the morning before the beginning of the drudgery was a large tank of waste. |
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To contend that the element of drudgery can be wholly eliminated from work would be ridiculous. |
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And the drudgery of carrying water, mainly the task of women and children, should also be eliminated, thus leading to higher school attendance. |
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This farming technique improves soil health, reduces erosion, conserves moisture, saves labor and greatly reduces physical drudgery. |
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Our time is filled with the drudgery of road repair, trench digging, and marching. |
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This quiet parade of endless drudgery and occasional success becomes a small, bashful world theatre ending in impish but nonetheless restrained high spirits. |
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It is only between IRL drudgery and the absurd limitlessness of the Net that Vierkant finds his poetry. |
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More than half the world's population use water piped to their homes, which frees them from the drudgery of water collection and protects their health. |
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This, together with cuts in government services, has resulted in more hardship and drudgery for women and children, particularly in terms of health, education, livelihood and food security. |
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Beyond the recent trend for concerts on cruise ships, musicians have for decades adventured beyond the routine drudgery of more traditional music venues. |
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The respectable country people refused to submit to the long hours and demoralising drudgery of the mills. |
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They were full of drudgery and numbness and – shudder – actual competency. |
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En route, she meets a travelling salesman, Charles Drouet, who soon releases her from the drudgery of machine-work in the heartless city by making her his mistress. |
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I don't seek inspiration, and my work is also not a horrible drudgery. |
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You are now the owner of a new Simplex automated timesaving miracle Fletch-o-mat, designed by space-age scientists specifically to remove the drudgery from tiresome daily fletching. |
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Mechanization of this process removed a substantial amount of drudgery from farm labor. |
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In addition, there is the daily gain in working time and less drudgery. |
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Most manual work is now presented as some form of drudgery. |
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However, for these proposed procedures to successfully free up members from the needless drudgery of having to repeat work done in the last session of Parliament we first need to pass the motion. |
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It was not the days of drudgery in the rice fields but the hours of off time that most shaped the contours of slave culture. |
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Household drudgery, woodcutting, milking, and gardening soon roughen the hands and dim the outside polish. |
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A man chipping rocks may be soaked in pity because of the drudgery, while the man working beside him may be proud that he is helping to build a cathedral. |
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I must say, save the print and spare me the drudgery please. |
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A judge's life, like every other, has in it much of drudgery, senseless bickerings, stupid obstinacies, captious pettyfogging, all disguising and obstructing the only sane purpose which can justify the whole endeavor. |
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Theo is a nine-year-old dreamer and bookworm who reads about magic and families to escape the drudgery of the wretched, impoverished existence she shares with her inattentive and irresponsible mom. |
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The drudgery of this daily toil aside, the water was often polluted, drawn from muddy pools where animals defecated, while the ever-extending search for fuel was causing serious deforestation. |
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