Synonymer & Information om | Engelska ordet DRUDGERY

Exempel på hur man kan använda DRUDGERY i en mening

• Peter Bichsel gave up being a professional teacher early in his lifetime, yet he has continued to teach his readers that the drudgery and banality of life are of our own making.
• At 17, he was sent to London to learn more about the glove-making business in the extensive dry goods establishment of his uncle, but every moment that could be snatched from the "dreary drudgery of the desk's dead wood" was surreptitiously devoted to sketching, drawing or engraving.
• Simon, a fourteen-year-old kitchen boy and servant in the great castle Hayholt, muddles his way through the daily routines of castle drudgery in the last days of the long reign of King John Presbyter.
• In this endeavour she provoked about a quarter of a million housewives to take part in the labour movement and helped popularise issues such as equality for women in the workplace, school meals, clinics and playspaces for children, the fundamental value of mothering, a more humanitarian, safety-conscious, approach to the design of homes for ordinary families, and an eradication of needless drudgery and squalour from home life.
• undesirable, unprofitable work - "let's hone in on the lion's share and outsource the dross"; synonyms: corvée and drudgery which are growing archaisms in business (noun); as strong a term as dogsbody work.
• The response of the Borstal authorities to Smith's action is heavy-handed, and Smith resigns himself to the drudgery of manual labour he is returned to.
• Lodger's lyrics are often cynical and nihilistic; their discography includes such titles as "I Love Death" which details the drudgery in life of the average person and "God Has Rejected the Western World", an anthem decrying the superficiality of western society.
• Rémy described the French Michelin inspector's life as lonely, underpaid drudgery, driving around France for weeks on end, dining alone, under intense pressure to file detailed reports to strict deadlines.
• After earning enough money as a welder to purchase and modify a second-hand aircraft, Doug goes into business with Henry as a barn-stormer to finance a transatlantic attempt, but Henry eventually tires of the drudgery of eking out a living day to day.
• In stark contrast to the housewife persona and her life of domestic drudgery, Lennox's vamp character is featured in a variety of "luxury" situations including eating sushi and drinking cocktails as she lounges in a hotel room, and being driven through the palm-tree lined streets of Los Angeles in a convertible (by Dave Stewart, partially visible in the rear-view mirror).
• Here, in the seaside town that they forgot to bomb, there’s no acrimony or draining divorce – just drudgery in the world's snooziest holiday destination.
• Advertisements from the 1920s onward depicted a housewife in an apron using the product to disinfect the bowl and remove odours; it "cleans closet bowls without scouring" with "no drudgery whatsovever".
• Tangye was reluctant to describe himself as a writer, but his simple literary style had appeal for a wide range of people who yearned to escape urban and suburban drudgery.
• After two years of drudgery and ill-treatment, she runs away to the city along with her faithful dog Zippy.
• The Crooked Eye follows a quiet woman through her daily drudgery while persistent memories of a recently unraveled marriage dreamily connect the guilty moments that made her world so unreal and unreliable.
• Dissatisfied with the drudgery of homesteading and growing increasingly disconnected from his family, Gabriel forsakes the farm for a life of higher adventure.
• Set in the fictional Toronto law firm of Fagen & Harrison, the series focuses on three young lawyers struggling to balance their expectations of life with the difficult realities of building a career in the driven Bay Street corporate environment, and engaging in immature and unprofessional behaviour to cope with the soul-crushing drudgery of working life.
• Easily the most colourful personage in the place was Porterfield Rynd, one of the ablest members of the Dublin bar—a man who, if he had been half as devoted to the drudgery of work as he was to the allurement of play, could easily have attained the highest honours in the judiciary.
• College reunions in the 1950s, which inspired Betty Friedan's landmark "The Feminine Mystique" were hotbeds for middle-class women to vent about their boredom working at home and by doing so discover shared irritations at the "drudgery" of being a housewife.
• After 20 years of "the usual forensic drudgery", Probyn secured appointment as a justice of the Brecon, Glamorgan, and Radnor circuit court in 1721, and became a Serjeant-at-Law on 27 January 1724, defending Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield at his trial for embezzlement.

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