Much as weary travelers succumb to eating McDonald's, members nominated bars they already knew they liked.
On a grim and blustery morning in the town some people know as "Skeg", conversations with locals suggest a town much more weary and fatalistic than Great Yarmouth, although people have a similar litany of complaints: awful local roads, shut-down shops, an economy that effectively dies for half the year.
After days of isolation in her apartment, watching the gruesome news on television, unable to sleep or eat much and weary from answering detectives' questions, Ms. Gomez agreed to an interview, even though she said she knew nothing of the crimes or of her sons' whereabouts.
That promise is kept, up to a point, even if the end result is not enlightenment so much as weary, battered resignation.
You're 21, for shag's sake!' But three-quarters of an hour later you're wondering if you'll ever have this much world-weary pathos surrounding your person, even in your dotage.
The Rangers, presumably much the wearier of the two clubs — playing on only two days' rest, while the Devils had been relaxing since May 8 — were so worn out during the second period that a little more than halfway through, Coach John Tortorella, had to call a timeout to give them a breather.
They wired the money home and, when they felt they had made enough -- or missed their families too much, or wearied of living as fugitives -- they returned to the Gaza boundary and handed themselves in to Israeli soldiers, who eventually expelled them back to their homes.
None of this is much comfort for weary Swiss and American taxpayers, of course.
The effort is as much about overcoming weary cynicism as getting paperwork to the governor's office in time.
Recently, though, the question has become: How much does a weary, and slumping, Wright really help the team?
