Only the elderly — but not all of the elderly — facing exhausting projects have taken that step, Marty Ingram, the chief of the volunteer fire department and a kind of mayor and Iron Man around town, told me.
He also stunned many observers during a homily at Old St. Patrick's Church in January 1998 when he pronounced liberal Catholicism "an exhausted project".
A holiday in Jamaica – at a place called Treasure Beach, where Aitkenhead had been many times – was to have provided respite from their exhausting renovation project, full-time jobs, small-kid stress and the hard winter.
No matter how big and how exhausting the project is, once it's finished and I'm ready to go on to the next, I'm excited for the next project, and that is a very good sign.
In 2007, with her legal avenues exhausted, the project went ahead on Cherry's stretch of the beach.
"The danger with capital projects is that the creation of the capital project exhausts the resources of the organization, and then it doesn't have the operating budget to run it," said Adrian Ellis, chief executive of AEA Consulting in New York and London, whose clients include City Opera, El Museo del Barrio and the Museum of the City of New York.
I'm not sure that the lengthier episodes quite make up for the fact that their seasons are only three or four episodes long and often take a year-long break in between, but it must be a liberating experience for the actors and writers, allowing them to tackle other projects without exhausting themselves creatively.
His efforts to secure, direct, and coordinate contributors for the project exhausted him, and he died from the effects of a paralytic stroke that he had suffered in 1901.
The project took an exhausting – and sometimes exhilarating – four years.
