How anything could be more grindingly depressing than that I don't know.

More than half the people are illiterate and grindingly poor.

Grindingly backward, it's hardly moved out of the 19th century.

At the same time the Barrio has stayed grindingly poor.

It is deeply disappointing that these have been grindingly slow.

Justice, though, can be grindingly slow, and some critics say the process is needlessly complex.

It was grindingly hard, and tough on the nerves.

I turned my head on a grindingly paralyzed neck, and there, in the doorway, stood Anna.

But by now it was grindingly hard going.

It's all grindingly familiar and has been done by others with far more style and credibility.

The unavailability of normal communications technology was making this investigation grindingly slow.

At least it wasn't as grindingly cheerful as the things his mother tried to make him wear.

If I had wanted something grindingly difficult, I wouldn't have played the game on easy.

Their only hope was to be grindingly, interminably thorough.

Nevertheless, she leaned on Martie all the way, and the journey was grindingly difficult.

But the machines eventually reached the satellites, and began the same grindingly slow process of stellar consumption.

In its immense bulk, the maneuver was grindingly slow.

I love this, but those who prefer their games to be grindingly difficult will be displeased.

Then slowly, grindingly, he lifted himself once more, by main force, to an unsteady erectness.

Sadly, as Alexander is put through his paces one more time, the jokes turn grindingly repetitive.

The elevator halts grindingly at the 7th floor.

This it proceeded to do - grindingly.

Rather, they facilitate a pinched, unromantic, grindingly efficient form of productivity.

Well, the mafia may be rich and everyone else grindingly poor, but Georgia seems bursting with hope and health.

It also questioned "the grindingly bleak New York settings in which so much of the film is set."