Sentence examples for inordinate energy from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, DuPrau doesn't lavish inordinate energy on imagining details distinctive to the sunless City of Ember.

So does the inordinate energy put into pre-emptive defence against reviewers objecting to the above.

You will also spend inordinate energy trying to make other people break up with you, which will almost always have the exact opposite effect.

Evolutionary biologists argue these conspicuous purchases do the same job as peacock tails — signaling to peahens that they are fit enough to expend an inordinate amount of energy on producing colorful feathers.

I work full-time for Congolese women, and I find myself devoting an inordinate amount of energy to defending Congolese men, whether arguing with a gazillionaire at a backyard barbeque over "Africa's tribal rape rituals" or sitting on a panel with a human rights activist who waxes on about "the cultural roots of the sexual violence in Congo".

It is Mr D'Amato's methods notably the act's mandatory sanctions against any foreign company making significant investments in the Iranian and Libyan petroleum industries that pain America's allies and require the administration to spend an inordinate amount of energy coping with their protests.

The drama, by contrast, is abstract — and it's why critics who are most indifferent or insensitive to the particulars of the cinema assimilate movies to screenplays and spend inordinate space and energy twiddling details of characters' behavior on the ends of their fingers rather than taking the movie experience, the spirit of the movie, whole.

After doing some background reading and concluding, in Gilliam's words, that "Jesus was O.K". (and not all that droll), they decided to write a story about a parallel figure, and they seem to have devoted an inordinate amount of energy to discussing the difference between heresy (good) and blasphemy (bad).

They are able to steal dead prey from the cheetahs, forcing them to spend what seems like an inordinate amount of energy in high-speed chases after more food.

All of that takes an inordinate amount of energy.

Everglades defenders spend an inordinate amount of time, energy and money fighting Big Sugar, hating Big Sugar and figuring out ways to accommodate Big Sugar.