"Interminable construction work, poor quality materials, terrible servicing of buildings and of the local area led to discontent and perturbation of the investors and poor media coverage," Ms. Viter said.
This literary bugatelle could easily have become excruciatingly cute; I feared the worst early on, when Estrin has Musil -- the author of the exquisitely interminable novel "The Man Without Qualities," here amusingly portrayed as a ponderous bore -- refer to Gregor as "Herr Larva".
There is an interminable discussion going on about tone.
The writer wants to stress the coldness of the New England winter, rather than its interminable length, its gloominess, its snowiness and many other qualities that it always possesses.
Even when he was immersed in the interminable arcane economics of Marxism, he managed to maintain a quality of wisdom and modernity: he wisely commented that "children must bring up their parents," and he valued Christianity — that opium of the people — because it taught adults to love children.
In the interminable battle against traffic, a growing number of government and private initiatives offer U.S. drivers high-quality real-time traffic data and even short-term predictions of travel time from, say, one freeway intersection to the next.
There's a quality of the gothic at work: the elements of the novel — sudden violence, black spectres, an interminable past — are reminiscent of Melville's great story "Benito Cereno," in which Catholic mystery and African presence come together uncannily.
" 'Interminable scherzo'?
The frenzied, interminable barking.
