| No wonder some departmental meetings seem interminable and cyclic in substance! |
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| Seemingly interminable rallies are marked by players pounding the ball at one another in games that go hours at a time. |
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| It was an interruption of his concentration upon the interminable playing of dominoes, or cards, or throwing dice. |
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| Appraisal is not a load of meaningless jargon sprinkled liberally across a ten page grid full of interminable tick boxes. |
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| All I do is play interminable rounds of golf, quaff the odd tincture or two, fiddle a bit on the heavenly exchange, and so on. |
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| Our tour of the town begins with an interminable drive through recently closed shipyards and abandoned industrial factories lining the harbour. |
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| Every scene made me cringe as he mugged for the camera and offered those interminable witty retorts with that knowing gleam in his eye. |
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| Those gray bushytails would hunker down at the sound of the sonic boom and not be seen for interminable periods of time. |
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| The great majority of councillors' time is devoted to the interminable squabbling amongst Nimby neighbours about development applications. |
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| What noun sums up the inescapable bore who buttonholes you to make a pitch or unload on you an interminable tale of woe? |
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| Ropey dialogue and hammy acting abound, and Zombie seems in no hurry to wind up the proceedings as the film starts to feel interminable. |
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| After the interminable drive in the carriole over the jolting roads they had reached Nevers when the sun was already high in the heavens. |
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| In most cases, we would probably still be there in the theatre on an interminable opening night. |
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| Maybe instead produce an interminable, twanging, overlong, repetitive, inaccessible and frankly irredeemable apology for a solo album. |
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| Moreover, it is a sordid story of printers feuding, interminable law suits, and monopolistic practices. |
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| You might wish to keep this in mind next time you see one of the interminable infomercials pimping the stretchy arts of this dirty old man. |
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| After an interminable stretch of dead air while the cellular connection went through and my bowels tied themselves in knots, the number rang. |
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| He avoided answering every question and produced an interminable drone to kill time and frustrate the interviewer. |
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| Most people are more afraid of being caught in interminable suffering during the dying process than they are of death itself. |
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| After a while these interminable lists acquire a certain ghoulish fascination, prompting a host of other questions. |
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| There was the usual interminable discussion about it at half time and afterwards. |
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| Then we waited for the interminable paperwork that accompanies getting bumped. |
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| It was the interminable non-story about some guy's grad night woes that finally blew my patience out the back door. |
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| I get more intolerant and downright bored with this interminable, stomach-churning rubbish every year. |
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| It bores me to write the words, but that's the nature of this interminable week. |
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| The Josef Stalin Museum itself is enormous, winding through interminable corridors over two floors. |
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| At least this would be less boring than those interminable slide shows he gave us in days gone by. |
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| And so it continues with only the occasional hand clap to lessen the interminable uninspiring drone. |
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| Traffic is horrendous, with streets congested during seemingly interminable rush hours. |
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| The films are slow with no tension or real intrigue to bridge the interminable passages where nothing happens. |
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| Just how many of them have read the addled, interminable book that first described his adventures, however, is debatable. |
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| For those not involved, international weeks can often prove an interminable bore, a week or more of kicking their heels instead of a ball. |
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| Here, I am not interested in the technical issues because they lead to interminable and irresolvable arguments. |
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| I know that the Fon tribe are inclined to construct interminable systems of analogies between events or between people. |
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| Perhaps being war babies had given them interminable patience, fortitude and resilience. |
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| Show up early, because no matter what time you go, there will be an interminable wait. |
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| She meandered through an interminable speech ranging through topics from sick children and warfare to the superficiality of film. |
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| Or is it a triple CD packed full of interminable electronic bleeps and whooshes, both inaccessible and incomprehensible? |
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| I was relieved when the interminable service was over, and the solemn signing the register with witnesses was announced. |
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| Sadie's heavy eyelids and swallow-the-earth yawns were entirely down to yet another interminable boredom barrage from Mr Brown. |
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| The increasingly opaque Williams, dragged into the church's interminable conflicts, needs a right-hand man to keep an eye on the bigger picture. |
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| We rush down the glacier solving its intricacies by interminable weaving, creeping over tenuous bridges, snowplowing desperately below the shrouded rock. |
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| The days pass, interminable and empty, without the slightest occupation, without any other obligation beyond presence at the roll-calls in the morning and at midday. |
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| The day before, generalissimo Francisco Franco, the longtime dictator of Spain, had finally died after an interminable illness. |
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| They feed the mind, to be sure, but also help him get through the interminable hours he spends on planes. |
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| These interminable stretches of consequence-free juvenile mayhem were interspersed with occasional moments of interest, such as the charismatic card sharp. |
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| Under Sepp Blatter, its interminable head, the body has been opaque and corrupt. |
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| Having navigated those hurdles we then have the interminable drive South. |
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| Most people are likely tired of the interminable debate over outsourcing. |
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| While these campy interludes are good for a few laughs, after the first one they quickly become interminable and stop the film dead in its tracks. |
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| Despite a few fiery flashes of hot-bloodedness, Unfaithful has several interminable stretches where you're aware of nothing but the passing of time. |
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| Later his name appears in the papers, he is forced to move house because of death threats and he can't find work due to an interminable police inquiry. |
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| But the country is also an object lesson in the potential global impact of our interminable culture wars. |
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| If she is ever once caught yawning during an interminable tribal dance in Papua New Guinea, the photo will haunt her for decades. |
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| I anticipated interminable delays in taking our orders but I was wrong. |
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| The wait seemed interminable, and slowly she nodded off to sleep. |
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| But there has, in the past, been some niggles, such as the often interminable hassle of getting money for goods and services out of some Arab nations. |
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| With darkness falling in interminable injury time the inevitable happened. |
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| During the interminable reviews, restructures, re-organisations and re-engineering it is invariably the manual workers who pay for the latest management fad. |
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| This is an interminable argument that must be decided situationally. |
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| Appealing the order could have ensnared the company in an interminable appeals process, keeping its buses off the road for years. |
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| The soft-core version included Raj revivalism, the cult of Merchant Ivory and interminable documentaries, coffee-table books, fashion accessories. |
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| At times, the delays for relatives and victims have seemed interminable. |
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| All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings. |
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| Buckingham might have mimicked the pedantry of his manners, and Coventry have complained of his interminable dawdlings and delays. |
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| Then there was that interminable, deadly pause between disengaging the stones and the old clips releasing from the hotguns. |
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| They have gloried to this day, the tedious interminable big-screen replays of that golden summer irritating beyond measure. |
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| It consisted of an arched corridor of apparently interminable length, gloomily lighted with jets of gas at regular intervals. |
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| It is a dilatory akratic distribution that renders time indeterminate and possibly interminable. |
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| Writers are fleer than critics to ignore the strictures of periodisation, the interminable debates about location and positioning. |
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| All good things must come to an end and so, I'm sorry to say, must this interminable load of old hooey. |
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| Crowds want to see off-loads and skilful running rugby, not interminable re-set scrums. |
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| The light was ashen and the street was wide and monotonous, dirty houses of the neighborhood, interminable walls, sharp corrugated uralite roofs, telephone poles and wires. |
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| Interminable arguments raged over the legitimacy of his custom-made body suit, and whether he would wear the full outfit or some cut-down version. |
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| I couldn't bewield this anymore. Interminable sentiments skirmishing inside me shouted for a vent. |
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