The lessons of this protracted debacle will not all be immediately learned.
This protracted case created many casualties, even if some participants could sustain a state of denial.
But when this protracted state of narrative lassitude suddenly shifts, "Pirates" brings in enough story line for several movies.
I'm trying to say that I just don't think I can do this — this being a weekend guest, this protracted socializing.
What this protracted legal battle brings into clear focus, once again, is the price we all pay for New Jersey's overreliance on property taxes to finance local government.
As I watched this protracted scene of captivity, terror, torture, and murder in the Algiers Motel, I wondered: How could they film this?
This protracted meditation on the blessing of self-transformation — "You've struggled," the rabbi says, "and now you can change" — is profound.
If they had listened and responded better to the initial consultation and to the multiple criticisms in the passage of the bill, this protracted listening exercise would not have been necessary.
Dr. Feldman asked how a state and its financial institutions could "effectively defraud" citizens through this protracted inflation, then bring about their acceptance of a new currency based on paper notes rather than gold.
(Although various Democrats across the country — including those raising funds for the convention in Denver — have worried that this protracted primary race is siphoning off dollars from other needy pockets.
This protracted last sequence is conducted with a ferocity and kinetic energy that was not to be challenged until the opening, 15 years later, of The Wild Bunch by Kurosawa's great admirer, Sam Peckinpah.
