Idiom
death by PowerPoint
Meaning
The boredom or disengagement that an audience experiences from poorly designed or overly verbose presentations using any type of presentation software.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The long meeting was pure death by PowerPoint.”
“I struggled to stay awake during the seminar because it was a classic case of death by PowerPoint.”
“The audience sat in glazed silence, suffering through yet another hour of death by PowerPoint as the speaker read every single word from his cluttered slides.”
Examples
simple
“The long meeting was pure death by PowerPoint.”
contextual
“I struggled to stay awake during the seminar because it was a classic case of death by PowerPoint.”
complex
“The audience sat in glazed silence, suffering through yet another hour of death by PowerPoint as the speaker read every single word from his cluttered slides.”
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