interminable
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Colm Hogan’s cinematography has handsome, rich shadows. but what’s best about it — and the pace of Brian Philip Davis’ editing — is they reward close attention without slumping into those interminable, inevitable jump scares.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
Pinball, for the author, was a way of “killing time,” an antidote to boredom as interminable afterschool afternoons stretched out before him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
An interminable profile in the New Yorker paints Sam Altman, leader of the rival giant OpenAI, as a person colleagues don’t trust.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Some matches drag on in interminable tedium, others are over in the blink of an eye.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025
They discussed the possibility of giving it a proper burial, but it would have required interminable paperwork to have the tomb unsealed in order to include the missing part.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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