How To Use Drudgery In A Sentence
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Our work is not drudgery, but something we are to take pleasure in today.
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Isolation, loneliness, and the sheer drudgery of running a pioneer household - from sunup to sundown, without a single day's rest - has worn away at their resolve.
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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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The labouring poor of Shakespeare's London, deformed by drudgery, illness, and accident, tormented by vermin, illiterate and unregenerate, must have presented a certain Calibanesque aspect.
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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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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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This may be anathema to top-flight diplomats disdainful of consular drudgery and commercialism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Drudgery, monotony, fatigue, mental frustration, physical discomfort - all are the same in either case.
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Had he planned to rescue Alex from the life of drudgery that was all he could look forward to?
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It gives a real insight into the sheer drudgery and misery behind pop success.
The Sun
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If we will arise and shine, drudgery becomes divinely transfigured.
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he spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery
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Here in the Eastern Conference final, where half-court drudgery is dictated by a Detroit Pistons outfit that wants no part of sleek showmanship, NBA basketball becomes less an art than a painstaking process both to play and watch.
USATODAY.com - Nets sweep road set from Pistons
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We need them to safeguard us against drabness and drudgery, against a mechanistic and wearisome utilitarianism.
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All of this was blissful time out from the routine drudgery.
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But the elimination of drudgery does not end there for people dubbed ‘service junkies’.
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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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The Traveller, 'walking up hill bridle in hand,' overtakes 'a poor woman; 'the image, as such commonly are, of drudgery and scarcity;
The French Revolution
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One of the strangest effects of the introduction of machinery into industry is that instead of liberating the human powers and initiative of workers from mechanical drudgery, it has often tended to devitalize and warp these forces to the functions of machines. [
Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls
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Or it may simply be that dads would rather stay at the office, where everybody behaves like a grown up, than go home to the squirminess and bodily fluid-filled drudgery of family life.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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What about a gap year between the drudgery of work and the mind-numbing tedium of retirement?
Times, Sunday Times
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For a year and a half, you did that dispiriting, desperate drudgery.
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An eye catching assistant often relieves the magician from the drudgery of bamboozlement.
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Yet fleeing domestic drudgery doesn't always provide solace.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Our weekends were jewels, sparkling brilliantly amidst the lonely drudgery of the rest of my week.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny. Gordon B. Hinckley
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Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny. Gordon B. Hinckley
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The stereotypical gobbler of romantic novels was the suburban housewife, who used fables on passionate love as an escape from the bored drudgery and emotional pragmatism of real life.
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If woman be the weaker creature, why is she employed in laborious avocations? why compelled to endure the fatigue of household drudgery; to scrub, to scower, to labour, both late and early, while the powdered lacquey only waits at the chair, or behind the carriage of his employer?
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
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The 6th is concerned with drudgery and labour and holds no promise of advancement.
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Their primary option for escape from drudgery at home is to take a job - where they do more work.
Divergent Realities: the Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents
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The drama, bravery and human endeavour involved in the prize ring seems to inspire authors beyond the common drudgery of your average sports biography and this is no exception.
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Rain can transform the most pleasant task into drudgery.
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Music offers an escape from the drudgery of camp life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course this whole business would always rob what should've been a dramatic meteorological occasion of all excitement, replacing it with drudgery and a feeling of having our enjoyment of the thunder and lightning compromised by archetypal fussy mumsiness.
Siren sounds
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I was brought up to believe in the modern myth that housekeeping is only drudgery, and the housewife is a downtrodden martyr.
The Symphony of Supper-Time
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What seemed a promising job turned into months of boredom and 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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Run as he might, he just can't escape the demons of low-wage kitchen-job drudgery.
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This flexibility has the added benefit of breaking up any sense of endless routine or day in day out drudgery .
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Labor - saving devices have emancipated women from kitchen drudgery.
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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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When a worker is burnt, it's a reminder that the workday drudgery, for Dad, could be fatal.
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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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I don’t understand why anyone expects us to love the drudgery of parenting and treat it like a sacred rite, as if admitting we’re sick to death of playing a game with our kids or doing laundry or sitting through a painful playdate is somehow a moral failure on our part.
Mom At Work | Her Bad Mother
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He had, when young for English public life, attained to high office; but -- partly from a great distaste to the drudgery of administration; partly from a pride of temperament, which unfitted him for the subordination that a Cabinet owes to its chief; partly, also, from a not uncommon kind of epicurean philosophy, at once joyous and cynical, which sought the pleasures of life and held very cheap its honours -- he had obstinately declined to re-enter office, and only spoke on rare occasions.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 04
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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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Most British workers eagerly look forward to their customary summer holidays to get away from everyday working drudgery.
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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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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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Travel can be an escape from the routine drudgery of life.
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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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The introduction of communal laundries and restaurants was part of lifting the daily drudgery for women in the individual home.
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People marvel that anyone could ever have done it at all, and describe the work as "drudgery" and "backbreaking" - which may be true - the guys digging the outhouses may well have hated it, and may well have preferred their new jobs, unloading pallets at Walmart to digging outhouses.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Their endless domestic drudgery made a sham of the notion that women had the time and energy for the "higher things of life.
America Past and Present
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Yet fleeing domestic drudgery doesn't always provide solace.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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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Derived from robota, the Czech noun for “drudgery” or “toil,” the word came with its own special resonances from Old Church Slavonic, the oldest written Slavic language, and a venerable relative of Czech, Polish, and Russian.
The English Is Coming!
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At last, when a thousand feet have trodden upon a thing of inestimable price, there comes along a newspaper man, doing the driest kind of hackwork, bound to a drudgery as stale and dreary as any in life, and he sees what no man has ever seen before him, though it has been plain in view for years and years.
My Contemporaries In Fiction
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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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In so doing, it distracts its members from the drudgery and privation of daily organizational life.
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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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How much drudgery is involved in putting a centerpiece on the dining table?
Archive 2008-05-01
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I was brought up to believe in the modern myth that housekeeping is only drudgery, and the housewife is a downtrodden martyr.
Archive 2008-10-01
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As women become liberated from domestic drudgery, are they in danger of losing something fundamental?
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People want to get away from the drudgery of their everyday lives.
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Being closeted within the four walls of the kitchen amid pots, pans and ladles, dishing out culinary delicacies for family, friends and relatives need not always be drudgery.
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She was living a hole - and - corner existence of daily drudgery.
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There will be no toil, assignments, chores, no drudgery or daily efforts.
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For almost a century scientists have used puzzles to study what they call insight thinking, the leaps of understanding that seem to come out of the blue, without the incremental drudgery of analysis.
NYT > Home Page
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A powerful enough vision can transform what would otherwise be loss and drudgery into sacrifice.
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To a man of true genius drudgerya school a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Drudgery, monotony, fatigue, mental frustration, physical discomfort - all are the same in either case.
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Indeed, clanging bells offered some exhilaration to counter the drudgery of life spent in the fields.
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She looks appalled when I suggest that there is an element of drudgery to the work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Only in an art gallery could anyone get away with such drudgery.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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There's also the drudgery of pushing her pram around and standing in the cold by rickety old swings.
The Sun
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Is your house riven by arguments over the domestic drudgery?
Times, Sunday Times
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They are filled with horror and compassion at the sight of poor men spending their blood in the quarrels of princes, and brutifying their sublime capabilities in the drudgery of unremitting labour.
Famous Reviews
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All of us need something to poetize and idealise our life a little - something which we value for more than its use and which is a symbol of our emancipation from the mere materialism and deathly drudgery of daily life.
Great Regulars: All of us in India seem to be passing through
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Schieffer concluded by wondering if, like Thomas Jefferson, Obama is finding the presidency to be a "splendid misery" and quoting Jefferson, who once said "the presidency had brought him nothing but increasing drudgery and a daily loss of friends," commiserated: "Have you lost any friends yet?
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For mums it was the era of the cheap washing machine that would free them from 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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Women's domestic lives were sheer drudgery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Travel can be an escape from the routine drudgery of life.
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Therefore, I maintain that capacity for work, and even drudgery, is among the essentials of story-telling.
The Art of the Story-Teller
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For these people, a management role which involves administrative drudgery is both a refuge, and a means for advancing one's career to a higher salary scale.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Having enough to live on, he has not been forced to work for bread; he has declined to subject himself to what he calls the drudgery of the profession, by which, I believe, he means the general work of a practising surgeon; and has found other employment.
The Warden
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The invention of the vacuum cleaner and the washing machine transformed not just daily domestic drudgery, but the layout of our homes as well.
Times, Sunday Times
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In more modern times, thanks to Betty Friedan and her followers, housecleaning is deemed total drudgery and demeaning work -- something that evidently should be relegated to the untouchable class of India.
January Organizing and Housecleaning
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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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The “AI” approach is so positive it makes the other methods seem to wallow in drudgery of the problems.
Walking with the Poor: a review
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By chance an opportunity had presented itself to escape from the drudgery he dreaded.
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
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What about a gap year between the drudgery of work and the mind-numbing tedium of retirement?
Times, Sunday Times
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There are many farmers, crofters etc, who would be only too willing to sell their land at £6,000 an acre to rid themselves of the unrewarding drudgery of much current farming in Scotland.
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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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Mrs. E.'s kindergarten met in various buildings during those halcyon years before the drudgery of first grade claimed me.
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Many women continued to work long, exhausting hours as wage labourers for miserly rates of pay, while as housewives their constant companions were poverty and back-breaking drudgery.
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The drama, bravery and human endeavour involved in the prize ring seems to inspire authors beyond the common drudgery of your average sports biography and this is no exception.
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Party management between elections is regarded as sheer drudgery without reward.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet fleeing domestic drudgery doesn't always provide solace.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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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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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But the factory, and the soul-destroying drudgery of assembly line work, was the fate of most.
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Yet fleeing domestic drudgery doesn't always provide solace.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Eddie watched the training drudgery from the shelter of the pavilion.
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In the early days, many had adopted this special ajiva vocation chiefly to escape from the drudgery of domesticity and a regular job.
Buddha
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In general, codeless Ajax promises to free developers from the complexity, drudgery and time constraints associated with Ajax programming.
Ajax sans code: bonheur des marketeurs et maintenant des développeurs
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Paul's major concern must be the consequence of being delivered from drudgery.
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Mac built castles, and made calculations, Tam put his shoulder to the drudgery, and before Mac quite knew what had happened, he was hauling logs and laying foundations for a brumby trap in the south-east country, while Bertie's Nellie found herself obliged to divide her attention between the homestead and the brumby camp.
We of the Never-Never
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There are many farmers, crofters etc, who would be only to willing to sell their land at £6,000 an acre to rid themselves of the unrewarding drudgery of much current farming in Scotland.
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Exercise can become pure drudgery when it's never accompanied by a playful or recreational aspect.
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How much drudgery is involved in making a sandwich and a pot of tea?
The Better Part
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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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What about a gap year between the drudgery of work and the mind-numbing tedium of retirement?
Times, Sunday Times
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They both point to the physical drudgery of housework - the relentless nappy-changing, cooking and cleaning.
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If we will arise and shine, drudgery becomes divinely transfigured.
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Calculators were introduced to relieve students of the drudgery of pencil-and-paper number-crunching.
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“Rather,” thought I to myself on hearing this, but I continued, in the dogmatical tone I had adopted: — “It is sad, however, that you should be brought up in ignorance of the most ordinary branches of education; had you known something of history and grammar you might, by degrees, have relinquished your lace-mending drudgery, and risen in the world.”
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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His day entailed drudgery at his writing desk in the countinghouse, attending arrivals and supervising the lading of outgoing vessels, and meeting with vendors and other merchants at the City Tavern, at the India Queen, or at any of a dozen other dens where merchants did their business.
Robert Morris
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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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EVERY time I wash up a batch of crockery I marvel at the unimaginativeness of human beings who can travel under the sea and fly through the clouds, and yet have not known how to eliminate this sordid time-wasting drudgery from their daily lives.
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