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interminability
noun
Endlessness
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And here we had been thinking it was the lame speeches, the lack of suspense and the general interminability of the Oscars that had ruined everything.
The graphic novels on which the show is based are still being written, and I wonder if this is The Walking Dead's problem – the interminability of it.
That punishing length can be a drag on narrative velocity: all conversations - German, Polish, Yiddish - are passed through translators onscreen, and subtitled in the French that Lanzmann finally hears, but even the issue of interminability seems of a piece with the inexorable horrors being recollected.
The film's title evokes the apparent interminability of this war more than four years after President Bush declared that "major combat operations" were over, and it twice shows Mr. Rumsfeld telling journalists, "I don't do quagmires".
Gadamer speaks of the "interminability" of such experience (die Unabschliessbarkeit aller Erfahrung, Palmer 2001, 66).
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