"He might have been a character in a Knipl strip, this utopian Socialist landlord," Mr. Katchor says, languorously, which, with his long pauses, gives you the not unpleasant feeling of sitting in a pigeon-grubby park on a hot and enervating day in some bygone New York neighborhood, perhaps in one of Mr. Katchor's strips.
It was, instead, a relatively clearheaded acknowledgment that, looking ahead, his relationship with leading media institutions will matter, and that being pounded in the Times day after day can have an enervating effect on a Presidency.
They are not starving but are condemned to an enervating whittling away of their physical resources.
That becomes an enervating experience, and people give up because you're not taking a viewpoint or perspective.
GROUP B Croatia Finished atop its qualifying group, wrapping up play last year with an enervating victory over England at Wembley.
These findings would seem to suggest that most of us are doomed to be tubby, an enervating idea -- and one that may even be self-fulfilling.
Messy and scattershot, these works hit all kinds of social and aesthetic issues and evoke an enervating laundry list of other artists' work.
There aren't enough singers left in heaven". "The enforced absence from the ring had had an enervating effect on Ali's movement and speed.
Martin's average has been under.200 since June 22 — an embarrassing, enervating span of 64 days.
Brownsville is a neighborhood so distinguished by negatives that even on a cloudless day, a dismal, enervating tension can take hold.
After a day of enervating meetings, he wanted to retreat with a touch of home — in this case, listening to the Japanese broadcaster NHK on his own shortwave radio.
