Sentence examples for interminable history from inspiring English sources

"I read Lives as an exploration of the boundaries between fiction and reality," says Atwood, "because in each of the stories the young girl takes up a certain kind of fiction or a story - sometimes it's a novel she gets from the library, sometimes it's the lurid National Enquirer type of newspapers, in one instance it's a relative who's writing an interminable history of the region.

A once-interminable history of the gorge from Ice Age to Space Age has shrunk to a charming few minutes of vignettes, followed by riveting lights and fireworks set to song, from the Beach Boys to James Brown.

Now what we're left with is an inquiry falling unhappily between two stools; reporting neither early enough to be useful (unlike, say, the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal inquiry) nor late enough to take the long view of history, as the equally interminable Bloody Sunday report did.

Instead, we are given interminable, albeit impeccably researched, details of the choral history of Brentwood School, the politics of Cambridge Footlights and the changing Hitchhiker's cast-lists.

I've eight books in German, and this year I will be the best-published personal-success author in German history.' The self-aggrandisement is interminable, unprompted and without apology.

However, being multi-vocular is not the same as being an archipelago of hermetically sealed cries; history provides the difference between Babel (the interminable inability to communicate one's suffering and one's love, faith, and hopes) and a possible common future.

Others came intending to stay for a spell but, despite astronomical housing prices and interminable commutes, fell in love with the city's history, its culture, its unique professional opportunities.

The new rule limiting time between first-round picks to 10 minutes produced a three-and-a-half-hour first round — nearly three hours shorter than last year's first round, which lasted an interminable 6 hours 8 minutes, the longest first round in history.

But their families back home – assuming they have any left at all – would be trapped in the interminable cycle of violence that has pervaded Afghanistan's recent history.

Both during and after the war, the job required a combination of soldiering, art history and gumshoe detective work involving interrogations, dangerous travel and interminable paper trails.

Labor's interminable 1983 election manifesto was famously described at the time as "the longest suicide note in history".