Some analysts attributed Mr. Tauzin's zeal to election-year politics; polls show Americans are outraged over the tire affair.
Connolly, I gather, had tired of the affair, but his withdrawal only spurred Sheba to greater follies.
In her 1993 book, A Marriage Made in Heaven or Too Tired For an Affair, Bombeck speaks about having attended a talk by Betty Friedan many decades earlier, hoping to break up the tedium of her week, and hearing Friedan detail the dull, dreary chaos of the life she and her friends were leading.
Sometimes, though, Combs tires of the whole affair — the neighborhood complaints and nagging county officials.
Over time Wanli grew tired of court affairs and frequent political quarreling amongst his ministers, preferring to stay behind the walls of the Forbidden City and out of his officials' sight.
If we take as the baseline the situation before the tires were slashed, the entire affair left the car owners worse off.
Mr. Dupieux's "Rubber," a similarly take-it-or-leave-it affair about a killer tire, featured self-reflexive antics that offset its repetitive violence (and brought out the playfully theorizing Frenchman within its director).
Though the Glaswegian otherwise kept out of the pre-match jousting which has become a well-established Mourinho ritual, it is hard to imagine that he is not tiring of the Portuguese's politicking about affairs of his own club.
A New Direction Ms. Giffords threw herself into the tire business and civic affairs.
Artists never tired of recounting his amorous pursuits, particularly his affair with a young village matron, Radha, whom he adored.
