The thought process rarely seems to run that way but Burke, who will be 20 in April, stresses the extra "love and care" expended in persuading him to join a club whose name elicited blank responses from friends when he broke the news.
But his greatest love was not expended on the Commander, but on his mother, Yvonne, who would have wished to have been a bon viveur in metropolitan society, but was stuck instead in small-town gentility with her peevish husband.
She had expended so much love and energy into making me more connected with others, that I felt I owed it to her to go out there and be more connected than ever.
"The amount of energy expended trying to track and clarify Love's personal quirks is bizarre," Mr. Cooper wrote.
He hasn't done any serious work in two decades, having instead expended his energies on his hectic love life: dozens of affairs and five marriages, none of which, to his relief, have resulted in a child.
Barrels of ink have been expended in debating the playwright's love life, his sexuality and the emotional arc his plays suggest he traveled -- from youthful exuberance into darkening melancholy and existential doubt, toward something approaching acceptance and reconciliation.
Martha expended her whole life's affection on her father, who loved her as her mother never did and died too soon.
People take up a lot of energy, which is what I loved; the more I spent on the phone, the more energy I expended.
One thing I love about "Mad Men is that it not only resists description (despite the billions of words expended on it) -- it also skirts past absolute pessimism.
More recently, some evolutionary thinkers, chaffed by the dissonance of some of the more uncomfortable Darwinian conclusions, have expended considerable energy contorting the theory to explain that those good and fuzzy values that we all know and love were part of the evolutionary plan all along.
