"You're already exhausted," someone says to Catherine Deane Jennifer Lopezz), a child psychologist, early in the new suspense thriller "The Cell".
Healy told me that McLaughlin wanted her to say that she was exhausted; as someone who prides herself on her stamina, she bristled at the very notion.
Michael McIntyre used to joke that there are only two acceptable reasons for waking your sleeping, exhausted spouse: someone famous has died, or it's snowing.
All I need is a roaring fire and a large sturdy dog to go on a walk with and come back from, ruddy-cheeked and exhausted, to someone making me a hot toddy in a farmhouse kitchen, and that's me: maximum cosy, the cosiest man alive.
It was inspired, Hayden explains, by an exhausting relationship with "someone who only wanted to stay up and talk about their problems all the time".
Each person is an end in himself or herself; the significance of a person is not exhausted by what someone else wants from him or her.
In other words, just the sort of place where someone exhausted from days of straining toward affluence can let loose — although preferably not to the point of horse dancing.
The book proceeds from terrifying grimness, through lonely mournfulness, until, midway, a morbid silliness begins sporadically to assert itself, like someone, exhausted by bad news, hysterically succumbing to giggles at a funeral.
Picture Me shows Ziff turn from a breezy, confident 18-year-old intoxicated by the amount of money she is making into someone exhausted, emotionally and physically, before she hits her mid-20s.
"She was not at home except late at night when she would return from work every day, exhausted from cooking someone else's meals and washing clothes," Bradley told his biographers, J. Gregory Payne and Scott C. Ratzan, authors of "Tom Bradley: The Impossible Dream".
