Sentence examples for waiting itself from inspiring English sources

You know it will happen eventually and you start to understand the waiting itself might be part of it.

But magical as a successful spotting can be, in many ways it is the waiting itself, the time taken that goes to the heart of the matter.

One is more aware than ever of Vladimir doing his bit to kid the two of them along, and yet it is Didi who asks "Will night never come?", the mere fact of waiting itself turned lethal.

Above all, Beckett discovered drama could be fashioned not out of external events but out of the process of waiting itself: an idea capitalised on by a host of later writers including Stoppard, in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and Mamet in American Buffalo.

Despair becomes repartee in Samuel Beckett's great play in which the act of waiting itself is caught like a buzzing bluebottle in a glass jar and dissected: the uncertainty, the boredom, the dawdling, the attempts to fill up the time that weighs so heavily and passes so slowly and yet reduces 50 years to a blink.

In other words, the waiting itself is not what it's all about.

It was not possible to distinguish between the effect of waiting time itself and uncertainty about its length.

"Often the psychology of queuing is more important than the statistics of the wait itself," notes the M.I.T. operations researcher Richard Larson, widely considered to be the world's foremost expert on lines.

Gilliland et al. (1946) explain that customers fill their wait times with mental and physical activities that divert attention from the wait itself.

Meanwhile, the significant difference between a no-wait situation and waiting with no filler demonstrated that the wait itself excited customers even though there were no fillers, confirming the positive effect of waiting.

Some participants reported that older patients could wait over a month for a care package to be organised, and that this wait itself could threaten patients' health.