Thus the Prince's protracted night-time goodbye at the end is newly touching, and harrowing, in Sfar's book in a way it's never felt in the original.
Now, back to that protracted County Commission meeting the other night, where 8 of the 19 chairs around the horseshoe-shaped table were unoccupied.
Taylor-Wood interestingly begins her film with the opening, jangling chord from A Hard Day's Night, left hanging in a protracted silence until its potential for implied menace and even tragedy has been allowed to float free.
If you're less interested in a single quick jump scare and more interested in the sort of creeping, protracted scare that keeps you up all night, you'll want to start by setting the scene.
On Page 471 of a 510-page narrative, when the denouement ought to be coming into view, Mr. Carter is writing "and still the endless night stretched before him" about Eddie's protracted sleuthing efforts.
Perhaps bored by winning all of the Emmys yet again, an exuberant, moustachioed Bryan Cranston decided to spice up the ceremony last night by attacking Veep's Julia Louis-Dreyfus with a protracted kiss.
Where the period of dying was protracted, clinicians and care home staff needed to be confident that staff (day and night) had sufficient skills and knowledge to manage symptoms, and that they would be able to access external support as and when needed (see Table 3).
During the heyday of her husband's protracted rule, from 1965 to 1986, she was also a disco queen, hitting the floors at gilded international night spots, which, thanks to her, included the roof of the palace she occupied in Manila.
Throughout the protracted Democratic-primary season, after the twenty-two-minute "Nightly News" broadcast went off the air on a big night, NBC's coverage — and its news stars — moved across the studio to MSNBC, where coverage was co-anchored by a broadcaster who makes his personal perspective plainly known.
Some critics said Caress of Steel was unfocused and an audacious move for the band because of the placement of two back-to-back protracted songs, as well as a heavier reliance on atmospherics and story-telling, a large deviation from Fly by Night.
