Last winter, however, the wait was interminable for most jiggermen, myself included.
What they missed most during those seemingly interminable weeks of rain, Mr. SanGiacomo said, were their usual forays "into New York City -- to the zoo, the aquarium or the botanical garden".
Lunch hours and breaks were shorter, the wait at the beginning of the day was less interminable, and, most conspicuously and significantly, the attorneys' requests for sidebar conferences, which had almost invariably been granted in the early days of the trial, were now routinely rebuffed.
For federal and city employees, the 248-day wait to reopen the island and New York Harbor's most famous monument had seemed interminable.
He has also promised a new anti-terror law in place of Egypt's interminable "emergency" laws, which most often have been used to clamp down on Islamists, moderate as well as militant.
The Phillies had been Harper's most ardent public pursuers since his interminable free agency began in November, so Thursday's news of an agreement should scarcely have been jarring.
Most of the screening (and those interminable lines) takes place before passengers and their luggage can get on a plane.
But for most private firms, the delay can be interminable.
The list of Lees-Milne's male lovers, many of them well-known married public figures and most of them aristocratic, sometimes feels tiringly interminable.
