Meaning of death by PowerPoint | Babel Free

Definitions

The boredom or disengagement that an audience experiences from poorly designed or overly verbose presentations using any type of presentation software.

idiomatic, informal, uncountable, usually

Examples

“Near-synonym: PowerPointlessness”

“2000, David Greenberg, Avoiding Death by PowerPoint, 45 Proven Strategies to Breathe Life Into Dull Presentations, Goldleaf Publications, →ISBN, illustrated.”

“In corporations, death by overhead has been replaced by death by PowerPoint. Nothing has changed but the technology.”

“We’ve all endured them ... PowerPoint presentations that drone on forever. I call this “Death by PowerPoint.” One of my near-death-by-PowerPoint experiences occurred in Newfoundland, Canada.”

“And, as audience members, we have all experienced death by PowerPoint, the comatose state that results from being subjected to one stultifying slide after another.”

“Where a 10-page presentation with one or two charts would have been acceptable before, now we all suffer from death by PowerPoint.”

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