When the subject of having to send his captain home in 2002 is broached at our pre-World Cup meeting in London, it appears, for one interminable pause that this could be a short-lived association.
The longer expository scenes seem interminable.
One of the coldest springs on record has made this winter appear to be interminable; we are finally enjoying the heat and sunshine of a summer that seemed to be destined to fizzle out like so many before it.
Even Sudan, a country that has been reduced to near-pariah status by a heavy-handed Islamist government and an interminable civil war, appears to be mellowing.
The natural loquaciousness of elected officials, which has led here to interminable City Council meetings in which little appears to be accomplished, is prompting increasing cries for brevity, some of them from Council members themselves.
Yet how can Betty know what others expect of each other, as they reflect on each other's expectations "at higher orders?" Such concordant expectations would appear to invite an interminable regress of second-guessing among anonymous partners who inhabit large and anonymous groups.
More significantly, development of IFQ programs appears to be increasingly overwhelmed by the proliferation of both equity concerns and seemingly interminable rent-seeking behavior — both issues that can effectively block adoption of IFQs.
It may appear like a chaos of interminable soundchecks, but when eventually the music starts, the crowd, standing or sitting around the performers, falls silent.
Loading times feel interminable and when they appear after a dramatic cutscene, they manage to break the atmospheric spell the rest of the game is so successful at weaving.
Ricky Gervais has somehow managed the transatlantic leap, though The Invention of Lying, which he co-wrote and directed with Matthew Robinson, labours under the influence of a TV mentality, appearing as an undernourished sketch padded out to (interminable) feature length.
That these lives appear awfully grim surely owes something to the rigors of interminable posing, which would put anyone except a congenital exhibitionist in a foul temper.
