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Recent Examples of pleasureless
Kobayashi basically rewrote the book on how to turn pleasureless gluttony into a profession.
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Washington Post, 1 July 2019
But the issue of female pleasure becomes the novel’s central, surprisingly pleasureless theme.
—Ron Charles | The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
Washington Post, 1 July 2019
But the issue of female pleasure becomes the novel’s central, surprisingly pleasureless theme.
—Ron Charles | The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, 7 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleasureless
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Not only does the more-open nature of the PC lend itself better to powerful creation software, but typing thousands of lines of code instantly becomes exponentially less tedious with a keyboard than on a touch screen or using controllers.PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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For millennial and Gen Z workers aged 18 to 43, the process is so tedious that 32% would rather apply to a new job than select health insurance, according to a Justworks and Harris Poll survey.Maria Gracia Santillana Linares, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Most of this long flashback segment is pretty boring, though.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
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Toyota and Honda have at times been called boring: Honda by its own engineers, Toyota more famously by a chairman descended from the company’s founder.Robert Ferris, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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Roasted cauliflower can quickly become soggy and mushy if the pan is overcrowded.Amanda Stanfield, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2024
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Don’t use too much broth or the slices may get soggy.Annie Krumhardt Peterson, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2024
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Having different roles and environments keeps work fresh and engaging, helping reduce the risk of job burnout from monotonous routines.William Arruda, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Really, how has this once monotonous job-working elections become dangerous in recent months?Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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Instead, the book is full of the prosaic events for which its author is known.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Here, water transport assumes a form that is grandly ritualistic if decidedly prosaic.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
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None of them are written with any specificity, though the actors manage to land the lines and elicit a few chuckles here and there — except for a tiresome twosome who try to speak with a Brooklyn accent for the entirety of the movie.Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
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And then, after a while, that narrative started to feel tiresome.Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2024
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Black men younger than 30 and older than 65 were the most likely to support Harris at 78% and 87%, respectively.Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Our observations suggest older bucks deposit pheromones on these rubs, and that plays an important role in the dominance ladder of a herd.Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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Even a feature-length version of this plot would likely struggle with its lack of ideas, but 10 half-hour episodes feel punishing, well before a finale that offers an uninteresting explanation of the main mystery, and can’t even be bothered to resolve several other running plot threads.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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But the color work on the series isn’t just about pulling off the tricks that every DP would like to make a TV show look a little more appealing — darkening uninteresting blank spaces within a frame, making the color consistent between shots, and smoothing out any variables in the lighting.Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Pleasureless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleasureless. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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