Sentence examples for interminable night from inspiring English sources

Eliot, an air-raid warden and fire-watcher in the Blitz, had his vision of purgatorial fire "Near the ending of interminable night… After the dark dove with the flickering tongue/ Had passed below the horizon of his homing".

Long after the Luftwaffe's dark doves flew home for the last time, the Atkinsons uncover traces of that "interminable night": as hollow monuments, as sites of memory, and, in Benjamin's premonitory words, as scenes of a crime.

Each chapter opens with a time stamp, and over the course of the interminable night, Franz recalls his travels through the Middle East, with frequent, relentlessly erudite digressions about music, literature, and the history of Oriental scholarship.

Referring to slashing the budget deficit, he said: "Irish people don't like to think there is an interminable night in front of them in terms of this economic burden".

At some indefinable hour during an interminable night, the fires that had raged for nearly two days in the skyscraper at 90 West Street still puffed and flared when Derek Trelstad, a structural engineer, walked into the building and cautiously began climbing the stairs, the double snout of his respirator wheezing in the haze.

But these young people have all said they lived through an interminable dark night.

In "The Voyage Out," Virginia Woolf writes of "those interminable nights which do not end at 12, but go on into the double figures -- 13, 14, and so on until they reach the 20's, and then the 30's, and then the 40's".

In what felt like the most interminable election night ever, both campaigns endured perhaps as many highs and lows after the polls closed on Tuesday as they had over months of stumping around the country.

The whole vast saga is a mind-numbing forced march through a swamp of comic book profundity, an interminable one-night three-way between Friedrich Nietzsche, L. Ron Hubbard, and Judith Kranz.

His warmup sessions, already extended earlier this season because of chronic first-inning struggles, seemed interminable on this night when further lengthened because of his team's hourlong pregame ceremony honoring Vin Scully. .

Amid a friend's concern that she has stopped taking her Zoloft, she buys a parrot whose interminable beak grinding at night leads to a grisly act of birdocide.