There are endless town hall gatherings, detailed position papers and new task forces, all devoted to the issue.
There are apartments, parties, social gatherings, endless cats, lives adrift from their moorings but captured on film.
It was a thick and spectacularly complicated operation, as you might expect, packed with uncountable meetings, precarious intelligence gatherings, endless planning and huge sums of invisible money no one really knows how to measure.
But as much as I am a fan of sipping my way through the endless round of family gatherings and parties, I have never quite been satisfied with holiday drinks as I have known them.
From endless parties and family gatherings you feel obligated to attend, to the rich foods you regrettably indulge in, and the expensive presents you feel compelled to purchase but can't afford, it's a time of year engineered for consumption.
All I can see is a series of expensive trips and endless hours spent in gatherings with no outcomes or deliverables.
I think back on my childhood in Croatia and the endless weekends and family gatherings spent dancing, with grown-ups moving across the lawn, patio or even tiny kitchen floors, following the beat and laughing with abandonment.
(This may have been as part of another example of what seems to be endless post-9/11 government list gathering: the State Department's Consular Lookout and Support System, known as "CLASS"). .
I was on the trip as Clinton sat through endless media interviews, town hall gatherings with students and meetings with tribal leaders.
The proceedings have involved a torrent of media miscues, the collision of big personalities — Harvey Weinstein lashed out at Robert A. Iger at the recent Allen & Company gathering in Sun Valley — and endless delays as lawyers for the parties scrutinize every step.
