More insidiously, there is a purpose to keep you watching, which drains efforts from possibly more enjoyable or educational (and thus potentially income-producing) activities.
"This is a very agonizing, emotional, draining effort".
(Strange, just what a draining effort of tact was required to get through the day without bad-mouthing another poet).
Dia has been without a New York City exhibition space since 2004, when it closed its building in Chelsea after the draining effort of creating Dia:Beacon, the vast upstate outpost that it opened in 2003.
Before heading to catch a late-night plane on the way to the Cincinnati Masters, where he is due to play this week before the US Open in a fortnight, he spoke of the draining effort of the match and the pride he took in creating tennis history.
Though they invariably overstate their case, their opposition would make a windfall tax a heavy lift politically, thereby draining effort from other, more direct, solutions, like better mileage standards and ultimately — the hardest sell of all — a bolstered federal gas tax to encourage conservation.
Blixt ballooned his drive into the patrons at this hole, laid up, then chipped to ten feet, before draining the birdie effort.
Drained from his effort, Rocca capitulated in the four-hole play-off and Daly won by four shots - claiming the last of his two major titles.
This pond was recently drained in an effort to control cyanobacteria blooms, and while the Microcystis strains were isolated from the pond before this event (in July 2007 and 2008), the Daphnia clones were collected after pond restoration (in September 2009).
11.21pm BST Mickelson, from the back of the green at 12, nearly drains a spectacular birdie effort.
9.30pm: Here's someone coming up on the rails: Miguel Angel Jimenez, who drains a huge birdie effort on 8 to move to -2.
