Yet, either way, lengthy negotiations will have probably turned the pair into the equivalent of that bickering couple.
The same way lengthy to-do lists are a form of procrastination, New Year's resolutions are ironically a way to ensure that you won't actually make sustainable changes in your life.
For example, the significance of prolonged hospital stay in relation to delirium may be explained in a number of ways: lengthy hospitalisation itself may increase the time at risk to develop delirium, or length of stay may be associated with comorbidities such as dementia, which in themselves predispose to delirium.
This way a lengthier or even a complex message can be easily communicated to a target audience.
The ice-cream swap helped to pave the way for lengthy phone calls, the sharing of family pictures and other personal gestures.
There were four ovations from the audience, which I think we can safely wager is the first time for a while that London audience has felt that way about lengthy German surrealist drama.
"I look back on the eight trips to Europe the magazine underwrote (by way of lengthy vacations in the summers, two of which stretched to eight weeks away or more, four of them with pay)." The New Yorker also footed the bill for "12 years of graduate school" and "10 years of expensive psychoanalysis".
I poured all my passion and idealism in to this way-too-lengthy soliloquy, and when I finally ran out of breath, there was five seconds of silence.
The duelling court decisions have opened the way for a lengthy legal battle that could conceivably go all the way to the Supreme Court.
And then, at a climax, the lights go out, giving way to a lengthy series of sensationalistic, often disorienting images (Is that a shot from "Twin Peaks"? Alejandro Jodorowsky's "Santa Sangre"?).
