Dr. Lynn's answer to his mental wanderlust was not the stage - although he does look back with inordinate fondness on a walk-in part that impressario Sol Hurok, a patient, gave him more than 20 years ago in a ballet version of "Eugene Onegin" at the Metropolitan Opera House.
"In America, health issues easily become moral issues, and once you've decided your opponent is morally bankrupt, and you get a political majority, why should you compromise?" Look at the inordinate resources now devoted to suppressing drugs.
"You can buy market share in any market, but it looks like Microsoft is spending an inordinate amount of money to compete against companies like AOL and Yahoo! who can sustain themselves on their own revenue".
The main outcome of this is that many pack on an amount of muscle that looks neither functional nor symmetrical and requires an inordinate amount of calories to maintain.
It's human nature: If you might get some bad news when you show up ("You owe the IRS $12,000") or physical pain ("It looks like we're going to have to do a root canal") or inordinate delay ("Sorry, we won't have your transmission done for a couple days, but you can wait in our customer lounge"), you're more likely to put the appointment out of your mind.
"If he's really looking like he's spending an inordinate amount of time in Washington or around the country and it looks like he is campaigning for a job, than you can make an argument that constituents are going to be mad," Regalado said.
Perhaps the service staff spent an inordinate amount of time looking for parts, so it took them twice as long as necessary to do a repair.
Longstreet, Ewell and the others spent an inordinate amount of time looking over their shoulders, looking to Lee for specific direction, and allowing one opportunity after another to slip nervelessly through their fingers.
The government has "been spending an inordinate amount of time looking in the rear view mirror," said Senator Bob Graham, a Florida Democrat and member of the Senate intelligence committee who has been pushing for a counterintelligence reorganization.
"They spend an inordinate amount of time looking for things, so much so that they sometimes decide it's easier to just redo experiments rather than waste time trying to track down previous results".
When a prospective client spends an inordinate amount of time looking at termination clauses, clawbacks and exploring ways to cut an engagement short, these relationships always seem to fail for both sides.
