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mind-numbing

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mind-numbing

(idiomatic) Excessively boring, tedious, or dull; repetitive; of an activity, etc., lacking any interest or variety that might serve as intellectual stimulation.
After hours of mind-numbing work sorting hundreds of nearly identical form, he needed to stop and do something else.
The story described the main character's wristwatch in mind-numbing detail.

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Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. Mark Boal

I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's great. I'm not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don't get it. It seems mind-numbing to me. Robert Sean Leonard

The job was interesting for a week, while he was learning it, mind-numbing after that. Lois McMaster Bujold

It’s going to be a physical challenge but I’ve been trying to prepare my mind by visualising being on a treadmill that long, and how mind-numbing it might be.” Source: Internet

If that power is taken away, what will he and Acton have to talk about at their incessant, mind-numbing “Wine with DeWine” daily press briefings? Source: Internet

But the most significant takeaway has been the mind-numbing complexity of trying to navigate our health care system - a hurdle faced by anyone with a serious illness. Source: Internet

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