mind-numbing

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mind-numbing

Extremely dull and boring. If we have to sit through another mind-numbing lecture today, I'm going to need another cup of coffee!

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Proving that everyone has their off days, it's an exercise in mind-numbing pretension, interspersed with grotesque violence.

ONLY GOD FORGIVES (18) [...]

What is even worse, is that the sub-contractors, who produce their own trailers, insert subliminal messages (which we were told is illegal) into their quick-fire montage of sound or video clips, far more mind-numbing than flash photography, then dictate where and when they are broadcast.

BBC's mind-numbing disruptive trailers; LETTERS

The table below lists the roads that witnessed over 100 accidents in the past year, with Cairo's 26 of July/ Mohandseen topping the list with a mind-numbing 575 accidents in 2012,accordingto Bey2ollak.com.

A Year in Review: Road accidents in Cairo

Of all involved, the truly smitten person appears to be Sarah Cameron Sunde, translator and helmer of four plays by this Norwegian scribe, who writes in a languid poetic idiom that is mind-numbing. But the love-sickness also got to Allen, taking the role of a woman who keeps re-playing in her mind the long-ago summer day when her husband disappeared at sea.

A Summer Day

Bear in mind that Dubai is the UAE's most populous emirate and the logistics are mind-numbing.

Not getting ID card isn't an option

Coach Steve Brown says Danielle has three winning assets: a high pain threshold, "mind-numbing" consistency, and--most important she hates to lose.

Going the distance

A judge in Washington took pity at his bleak upbringing at the hands of an alcoholic mother and her convict boyfriends - a situation she described as a "mind-numbing absence of hope".

BAREFOOT BANDIT BROUGHT TO HEEL

It was the most mind-numbing experience I've ever had."

Worst jobs in Wales

The sale price of $16 million is a mind-numbing drop of 54 percent from his original list price in 2005 of $35 million.

Shaq's Star Island sale may set price floor

The literature review is mind-numbing and jargon-laden.

Turning Around Failing Schools: Leadership Lessons from the Organizational Sciences

The problems that Coventry council has created with the implementation of bus lanes at this junction are addressed by Mr Richards with the mind-numbing idea of coning off the bus lane until "general motorists have acclimatised themselves to the new arrangements".

Letter: Your Say - Arrogant council rides roughshod over public's wishes once again

Sold, ITV's Hotel Babylon rip-off without the clever script, is more mind-numbing than a date with Holly Willoughby.

I'm not Sold on this one; the wise man of tv

I work full time--ugly, mind-numbing, blue collar, but necessary labor.

Poet Laureate Donald Hall

There were civil rights marches and boycotts, protests against mind-numbing atrocities committed in response to black people seeking the right to vote and a higher education.

Glory days: on the Joffrey's 50th, Christian Holder looks back and ahead

With bone-shattering spills and mind-numbing thrills, It's Time will never get stale and smell of fish.