单词 | unrewarding |
例句 | Pheasant hunting, which had been good in these areas in former years, was virtually abandoned as unrewarding. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Sadly he lay down by an unrewarding blueberry bush, drew his paws down tightly over his blackened face, then licked the dirt off them. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My attackers pretended to find it funny, but it was heavy, unrewarding work. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The town was dark and unrewarding — just good for a stroll up the main drag. Budget cruise from Bellingham to Alaska: one man’s account of his ferry deck adventure 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Yet what makes Wolff’s account at once undeniably entertaining and lamentably unrewarding is precisely what makes covering this administration so frustrating. From ‘Fire and Fury’ to Political Firestorm 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Office work, in his telling, has become increasingly insecure and unrewarding for the majority. Inside the box 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z But he knows its ending may be unrewarding for readers. For Him, the Delight Is in the Digging 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z It is an unrewarding role for Mr. Fonda, who spends much of his screen time glumly lounging around the apartment in his bathrobe. Movie Review: ?The Trouble With Bliss? Is a Number of Things 2012-03-22T22:46:58Z For a girl like me, performing a tedious, unrewarding office job—as so many women in the I.D.F. do—the Army was a deadening and alienating twenty-two-month experience. Bored to Death in the I.D.F. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z That is an impossible, and unrewarding, question to pursue. The damnable task of being a Man Booker International prize judge 2011-03-30T14:46:06Z But Spencer biffs her one with: "God, this is a long and largely unrewarding slog". What to say about ... Design for Living 2010-09-20T11:47:00Z These feel unrewarding when there is little likelihood of meeting in person, and it’s painful to hear about events my husband and I might once have attended. My Ex and I Are Friends. Why Won’t His Wife Accept That? 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z By the mid-1940s Mr. Carter had won several prizes but had made little headway with the public, and he began to regard his consonant style as an unrewarding compromise. Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z Bill Hader stars in this expertly crafted dramedy about a hitman who finds his work unrewarding — so he decides to become an actor instead. 10 TV shows with big dad energy 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Poor Barry is making a desperate attempt to persuade the Cody family to abandon the pointless, unrewarding world of violent crime and instead try day-trading at the stock exchange. Animal Kingdom ? review 2011-02-24T22:10:02Z In the last few minutes, he appeared to be making small steps in the right direction, but it had been too unrewardingly introspective a time by then to care. Hugh's Big Fish Fight and True Stories: The Kids Grow Up 2011-01-12T08:00:04Z But the satire is obvious, laboured and unrewarding. Antiviral – review 2013-01-24T21:14:01Z But she found the production cycle taxing and, finally, unrewarding. On the Runway Blog: A Russian Artist's Fashionable Flights 2011-11-14T23:27:28Z Rachel, who studied journalism in college and took an unrewarding public relations job, is unemployed. Movie Review: Bored Housewife Searches for a Spark in ‘Afternoon Delight’ 2013-08-29T23:11:04Z Mr. Cage, directed by the brothers Alex and Benjamin Brewer, plays a Las Vegas police lieutenant named Stone who has an unrewarding job in the property division. Review: Cops in ‘The Trust’ Spice Up Deadly Dull Jobs 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z That makes for unrewarding, predictable drama, though the writers occasionally try for better. Review: ‘Ballers,’ on HBO, Follows a Financial Guru to the Sports Stars 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z While it’s fun to watch how the dances keep the performers lively, the choreography is otherwise unrewarding to the eye. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival and Battery Dance Company 2012-08-12T22:01:26Z It is, then, an almost wholly unrewarding hour – thin, repetitious, unperceptive – for viewer and participant alike. Theo's Adventure Capitalists, Luther and The Story of Science 2010-05-12T07:00:00Z The whole production, obviously but unrewardingly, is a complex study of disconnection. Dance Review: Miguel Gutierrez’s ‘And lose the name of action’ at BAM 2012-12-05T23:10:20Z But the movement itself is limited and unrewarding, and it’s not redeemed by any stylistic excellence from its performers. Dance Review: David Wampach’s ‘Sacre,’ at the Invisible Dog Art Center 2013-01-11T23:38:14Z Strategic incompetence is not necessarily a conscious choice so much as a reflexive rejection of activity that feels unrewarding and unimportant. Advice | Work Advice: Strategic incompetence demands a strategic response 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z She has previously talked about growing up in "rural poverty" in Gloucestershire and taking on a "myriad of low-paid, unrewarding jobs". Daisy May Cooper admits she used to shoplift before This Country 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z A lot of time has been spent on digital transformation, but there are signs employees are having an unrewarding experience. Are America’s Banks Safe Yet? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Eventually, luxury projects became unrewarding, and I was compelled to look deeper into nonprofit work. An Architect Applies Her Skills to Giving Back 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z It’s here that the movie, after about an hour of steadily escalating mayhem, goes unrewardingly soft. Review: The enjoyably grisly 'Cocaine Bear' is nothing to sniff at 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Maddie stands at the center of what is essentially a dissolving home, sending money to her mother, tending to her father and working a dull, unrewarding job at a theater company. Review | In ‘Maame,’ a dependable daughter finally gets to live her own life 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z He found all of those experiences boring and unrewarding, so he went to law school, graduating from Marquette University in 1961. James M. Shellow, criminal defense lawyer and masterful cross-examiner, dies at 95 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z You’ve plainly had unrewarding conversations with them about these issues and found that they are firmly in the grip of their delusions. Should I Have Lied to Help My Kid Brother Get Vaccinated? 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z In both the US and Europe, economists are describing a 'Great Resignation', with millions of workers either retiring, quitting or refusing to take jobs they consider pointless, or unrewarding. 'Lying flat': Why some Chinese are putting work second 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z It was completely unrewarding and absent of logic. The NBA has agreed to lessen quarantine period to six days 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z There is some anecdotal evidence that workers are less willing to take on low-paying, unrewarding work — particularly if pandemic complexities like health concerns or child care worries are still an issue. U.S. economy added 194,000 jobs in September, another weak month heading into final stretch of 2021 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Fitzpatrick came to Houston after a particularly unrewarding season in Tennessee, where he started nine games, lost six of them and was cut the following spring. Ryan Fitzpatrick, Washington’s temporary QB fix, has mastered the art of being an NFL nomad 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z After Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson expanded an office that handles Freedom of Information Act requests, viewed by many in government as an unrewarding outpost, Mr. Klein’s superiors transferred him there. Trump Official Arrested in Storming of Capitol Left Little Mark Before Riot 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Fixing such deep bureaucratic problems will require hard and unrewarding work, serving no partisan agenda, since what’s needed is managerial reform, not bigger or smaller government. Opinion | Our nation’s covid-19 failures extend far beyond Donald Trump 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Rarely has decadence looked such hard work or so unrewarding. The fight to clear Johnny Depp’s name exposes an altogether nastier agenda | Catherine Bennett 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z His subsequent move from New York to California was both financially lucrative and artistically unrewarding. A great Hollywood novelist, nearly lost and rediscovered 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Their American tour had been exhausting, sporadically frightening, and unrewarding. Road trips, yoga and LSD with the dentist: what the Beatles did next 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z From a golden sunset to a good meal, I found life unrewarding. I lived with depression for decades – until my Asperger's diagnosis explained it all 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z His own impatience during interviews, he now explains to BBC News, is largely down to the politicians who he says "refuse to engage on any level at all" - exchanges he finds "unrewarding and rather pointless". John Humphrys: 'I'm hugely argumentative by instinct' 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The work is difficult and, in the developing world, nearly always unrewarding. Is fair trade finished? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z It’s likely that from multiple unrewarding social interactions during the course of development, people with ASD learn that social interactions are unrewarding, and retreat even further into themselves. Autism: More Than Meets the Eye 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z Being an artist is at best a chancy, unrewarding business, and one of the few ways I’ve found of coping is to celebrate every little good thing that happens. “Medusa” 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z In 17th-century England, work was lauded as a cure for vice, Mr. Spencer said, but the unrewarding truth just drove workers to drink more. Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Such is the unrewarding nature of accountability journalism. National Enquirer: Trump scandal shows the need for accountability | Emily Bell 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the child who early on finds school difficult, unrewarding, and perhaps even boring, is fed a less enriched curriculum, which exerts downward pressure on both expectations and achievement. IQ and Society 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z But I find the ambling poems published in the New Yorker to be very unrewarding. Tracy K. Smith, America’s Poet Laureate, Is a Woman With a Mission 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The latter are a recycling nightmare: separating bristles from the handle is labour-intensive and unrewarding. A tour of India’s waste mountain 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Jackie's face has become pale and her movement has slowed, but her random rummaging through memories continues to be a frantic — and dramatically unrewarding — pursuit. As Kennedy bios go, 'Jackie Unveiled' is more sketch than portrait 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z When the president is the chief and most unpredictable communicator in the White House, the role of communications director has become the most unrewarding job in the White House. The Trump White House is a place where turmoil never ends 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z My grandmother was given excellent care for very low pay by a Filipino man for years - he was incredibly kind and good to her, despite the backbreaking and often unrewarding work. If Immigrants Are Pushed Out, Who Will Care for the Elderly? 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z But while both outbreaks wrought huge costs on the organisations they infected, they were surprisingly unrewarding for their creators. Stolen nude photos and hacked defibrillators: is this the future of ransomware? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Sometimes it’s easier to simply adjust to an ever-changing official version of reality than to keep up a constant, unrewarding struggle to remember. Down the memory hole: Establishing “1984” for today’s Trump-filled world 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z The paradox of the game making such logic obvious is that its basic story, which I found otherwise unrewarding, works to produce sympathy for one’s antagonists. ‘Resident Evil 7: biohazard’ review: Mediocre, backwoods horror 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The person hunched over her laptop in the coffee shop could be poring over budgets or caught in an unrewarding whorl of YouTube videos: the silhouette is more or less the same. What Ever Happened to the Couch Potato? 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z After years of staying put in jobs that may have been uninspiring, unrewarding or even flat-out soul-crushing, more Americans are choosing to say sayonara to their current place of work. Quitting a job can be an epic step, and some people do it in a powerful way 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Here are three signs that your rewards credit card is unrewarding. 3 Signs Your Rewards Credit Card Is a Waste of Money 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Here they get a glimpse into the unrewarding alternative to achieving their dreams. Review: ‘We Are Your Friends’ an entertaining musical romp 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The candidate himself is an unrewarding source of answers. Donald Trump and the White Nationalists 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z They believe farming is stressful, risky and unrewarding. Delhi farmer death highlights countryside crisis - BBC News 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z A few operate as little more than digital sweatshops, funneling workers into narrow practice areas and subjecting them to repetitive, unrewarding tasks. Vietnam's IT Workers Value Passion Over Pay 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z More well-educated, young people finding themselves in unrewarding employment should return to their villages and live off the land, she believes. The 'new Africa' sweeping away the old 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, congressional Democrats, in the unrewarding position of controlling nothing, can deliver little. Federal employee bills show partisan divide on Capitol Hill 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z My issue with Druids Heath is that you rarely see the landing area from the tee, which I find unrewarding when you hit a good drive. Let's check in with that guy who has played every golf course in Ireland: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z His bowling was much more promising, as he showed the capability and willingness to charge in for long spells, and occasionally to drag some life from unrewarding surfaces. How England’s players rate after Tests against Sri Lanka and India 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z So few bills have been approved this year, and so little else has gotten done, that many senators say they are spending most of their time on insignificant and unrewarding work. Leadership war stymies Senate mission But work to discover how relevant animal models are to human disease — such as Perrin’s studies on TDP43 mice — is expensive and unrewarding for researchers and their teams. Misleading Mouse Studies Waste Medical Resources 2014-03-27T20:20:00Z With his mechanical slaves, he will in turn make the business of spamming into slavery and thus unrewarding. Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet [Excerpt Part One] 2013-06-18T16:45:00.147Z If the stimulus is unrewarding or unwanted, they might be referred to as “aversive.” 3a. What Is Operant Conditioning? (and How Does It Explain Driving Dogs?) 2012-12-13T15:45:00.230Z Those factors along with the waging of economically unrewarding wars are just too much for any civilisation to withstand perhaps. The time Britain slid into chaos 2012-05-25T07:15:56Z Soon enough, one learned that running a restaurant is difficult and often unrewarding work. City Room: After Restaurateurs' Lament, a Hint of Sympathy 2012-03-08T14:44:40Z Some critics and viewers found “The Iron Lady” unrewarding or superficial or disputed its representation of Mrs. Thatcher. The New Old Age Blog: The Lioness in Winter 2012-02-01T11:00:24Z “The European market continues to be incredibly unrewarding,” Fiat Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne said in a conference call on Oct. Italy Crisis Creates Buyers’ Best Opportunity for Discount: Cars 2011-11-11T00:07:12Z Like Biggs' depositors, they are stashing it in a safe but unrewarding place: Federal Reserve banks, which are paying them an interest rate of just 0.25% to tend the funds. Bank deposits soar despite rock-bottom interest rates 2011-09-18T01:08:00Z When dairy farming alone became too expensive and financially unrewarding, many Amish took on sawmill work, home and barn building, and woodcrafts. Among Victims, an Amish Farmer Quick to Adapt 2011-07-22T02:50:03Z The push was a long, successful journalism career that the recession swiftly turned unrewarding and unprofitable. Why I Became an Entrepreneur 2011-05-17T13:00:00Z In fact, I begin to feel that engrafting Continental slang upon home "snobbery" is a very unrewarding process, and I sorely fear that I have done very little more than this. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z Grasshopper Manufacture — the cult game developer behind critically acclaimed, if financially unrewarding, titles like Killer7 and No More Heroes — recently worked with Electronic Arts on a psychological action thriller due in stores next summer. Japanese Playing a New Video Game: Catch-Up 2010-09-20T01:50:00Z He ended up working “a lot of law-enforcement stuff,” including security-guard duties, but he found it unrewarding. Inside the Knockoff-Tennis-Shoe Factory 2010-08-20T20:10:00Z It’s when the boiler goes or you need a new roof that home maintenance feels particularly unrewarding — so much money, so little to show for it. Shortcuts: To Avoid Fly-by-Night Cleaners, Make a Phone Call First 2010-07-16T18:59:00Z It was another unrewarding afternoon for Surrey in front of their own crowd. Fit again Bresnan available for England 2010-06-20T18:42:00Z If you ask me, then, why I devote myself to such unrewarding labor, I answer, "It is true I know it to be so, but my apology is, that I make no progress." The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z The garbage men were fed up -- treated with contempt as they performed a filthy and unrewarding job, paid so badly that 40 percent of them were on welfare, called "boy" by white supervisors. Martin Luther King Jr.'s economic dream still unfulfilled, 42 years later 2010-04-02T19:03:00Z Countless boys have fled from the farm because they found the work monotonous, laborious and uncongenial, the hours long, the work unorganized and apparently unrewarding, the father or employer hard, exacting and unfeeling. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity Such is our doom who stand and serve The unrewarding public, thoughtless they Of slaves whose souls they slay! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 On the whole, he had found life an unrewarding thing; and he passed along, at fifty-five, with no great regrets. On the Stairs The pathetic cliente pining in vain for forbidden fruit—the hopelessly ugly and unrewarding, who alone were permitted to follow their fancies. Balloons It was a much more laborious and unrewarding occupation than he had intended, and he was sometimes weary of his self-imposed task. Authors and Friends "They come, and they go," said these prosperous and comfortable burghers; "and, after all, they're more or less alike, and more or less unrewarding." Bertram Cope's Year But mere abstinence and the doing of barren toilsome unrewarding things for the sake of the toil, is a perversion of one's impulses. First and Last Things |
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