If you're convinced cooking is drudgery, you're never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen. From LearnThat.org. [James Beard (1903-1985), U.S. cooking teacher and writer, ran influential cooking school, 24 cookbooks.]
How much drudgery is involved in putting a centerpiece on the dining table?. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Part] Reference
Therefore, I maintain that capacity for work, and even drudgery, is among the essentials of story-telling. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Story-Teller] Reference
The “AI” approach is so positive it makes the other methods seem to wallow in drudgery of the problems. From Wordnik.com. [Walking with the Poor: a review] Reference
I am ready to run mad over the mathematics! which I have just begun & wish I had just concluded — all your drudgery is over. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 20] Reference
The extreme form of this subordination, namely drudgery, offers a clew. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
They should involve effort and self-sacrifice; and also some drudgery, which is worse. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day] Reference
There were only a few girls there, if any, who were doing work which might be called drudgery except myself. From Wordnik.com. ["In Christ's Stead": Autobiographical Sketches] Reference
When domesticity, for instance, is called drudgery, all the difficulty arises from a double meaning in the word. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum. From Wordnik.com. [Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources] Reference
Must we continually theorize motherhood as some kind of drudgery that women need to escape from, or that binds us to our biology?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
But now that she is away for a moment or two, and in that moment or two prior to the upcoming work time 'drudgery' this you need to know. From Wordnik.com. [rainandfire Diary Entry] Reference
I think drudgery is an understatement. From Wordnik.com. [What Is Your Favorite Mexican Kitchen Gadget?] Reference
I am tempted to say that 'drudgery' is another name. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship Village] Reference
I don't think that kind of drudgery would ever suit you. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of Prey] Reference
The word "drudgery" has no meaning for the Utopian child. From Wordnik.com. [What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular] Reference
But about "drudgery"; the use of that word is all too common. From Wordnik.com. [Max Heindel's Letters to Students by The Rosicrucian Fellowship] Reference
But what many really mean when they say "drudgery" is monotony. From Wordnik.com. [Max Heindel's Letters to Students by The Rosicrucian Fellowship] Reference
And they have more than succeeded in proving the "drudgery" plea unfounded. From Wordnik.com. [American Cookery November, 1921] Reference
If you're dreading returning to "drudgery" when you return, you should consider a different career. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Dollar] Reference
"At long intervals in what most would call our drudgery," she says, "there came a day devoted to amusement. From Wordnik.com. [Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis] Reference
Some not ungenerous but perhaps rather unnecessary indignation has been spent upon his "drudgery" and its scanty rewards. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Arnold] Reference
Mr Bell never spoke to me in the day-time; for if the captain saw him, he was certain to send me to perform some kind of drudgery or other. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Whaler] Reference
They are no longer alone in drudgery. From Wordnik.com. [Mob Rule « Unknowing] Reference
A frolic, exactly on a par with her self-imposed "drudgery" at. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
It promises to be both high drama and soporific drudgery. From Wordnik.com. [Case No. 91-5482 Comes To Trial] Reference
Says Mr. Weitzman: "If you can make it fun, fund-raising isn't drudgery.". From Wordnik.com. [Fashion for a Cause] Reference
Best of all, Corzine was rich -- freeing him from the drudgery of the money chase. From Wordnik.com. [The New Jersey Purchase] Reference
I'm guessing this is because they associate all homework with drudgery and misery. From Wordnik.com. [Monica Edinger: School's Back; So's Homework] Reference
Some viewed their work as drudgery, but others had found ways to make it meaningful. From Wordnik.com. [How To See The Glass Half Full] Reference
Too many kids involves a life of drudgery and expense that extinguishes parental joy. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Time Magazine's Bizarre Assault on Large Families] Reference
For a second, I imagined that the artist was expressing the drudgery of our daily existence. From Wordnik.com. [American Beat: Art Worship] Reference
Iacobucci's real inspiration was the drudgery of business travel in his days as an IBM engineer. From Wordnik.com. [10 Big Thinkers for Big Business] Reference
In more than a year of campaigning, Edwards followed a trajectory marked as much by drudgery as drama. From Wordnik.com. [Out of Steam] Reference
By the 1950s, domestic drudgery seemed on the brink of disappearing altogether, at least according to the ads in women's magazines. From Wordnik.com. [Household Appliances] Reference
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