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But the film is gruelingly self-referential, substituting sarcasm for irony.

It wasn't fast, but it was gruelingly steady.

As gruelingly swift as the pace had been before, it was now just as agonizingly slow.

There's a great sequence in Oldboy where our protagonist fights his way, rather gruelingly, past a few dozen thugs.

Our trip began gruelingly, over steep, sliding stones for what seemed like hours, but was probably minutes, before we arrived at a dirt path through thick woods.

R.'s father, a successful corporate lawyer who traveled a great deal, and her mother, a fashion retailer, were gruelingly busy; still, they always managed to attend her competitions.

While the military Warrior is harder than the consumer version, those seeking a gruelingly difficult strategy game will prefer Soldiers: Heroes of World War II.

But Mr. Austin's bell rings every eight seconds, Mr. Reinhard's every 16; the latter pace is gruelingly slow.

He had two gruelingly long sessions in the innings and overcame each so well that he set the seal on his well-earned reputation as one of the best bowlers ever."

An antidote to Bruce Nauman's gruelingly uneventful five-hour video installation at Dia, "The Wake," by two Danish artists, is a four-hour exercise in cinematic maximalism.

Fangoria also panned the film, stating "PSYCHOSIS is a terribly boring film with an ending that doesn't reward viewers for undertaking it's gruelingly sluggish pace."

The National Transportation Safety Board conducted a gruelingly detailed study of the Universe Explorer's failure to meet 30 of the Method I criteria under which it was claiming an exemption.

Yu Suzuki has stated how gruelingly difficult it was to get the most from the Saturn, but that he is very proud of the visual quality he was able to achieve on the 32-bit system.

While the Amistad saga gruelingly recalls the horrors of slavery, it also leaves the audience with an "up" ending: Here is an instance, some 20 years before the Civil War, when the system worked, vanquishing injustice.

But it's also a time of gruelingly hard work, of seven dance numbers and six costume changes per show, as many as five shows in a 13-hour day, and as many as six days of work a week.

Trag released her at the end of the gruelingly precise session, his impassive face giving her no indication that she had learned to cut cones properly, though she felt in every muscle of her aching hands that she had achieved some proficiency.

The demonstrators were escorted by hundreds of city and state police officers, preceded by policemen on bicycles pedaling at a gruelingly slow pace, and trailed by police S.U.V.'s, correction department detention wagons and even school buses, to be used in case of large-scale arrests.

An omniscient spellbinder who was also cynical and limited--that's not the worst legacy a filmmaker can have, especially one who gave us some of our culture's most enduring visions of the absurdity of war, both satirical ( Dr. Strangelove ) and gruelingly earnest ( Paths of Glory ).