sit through

A worthy successor to 1964’s “Fail Safe,” Ms. Bigelow’s documentary-tinged feature is almost too chilling to sit through.

They’d sit through endless dinners, laugh at Stalin’s stupid jokes, listen to his drunken rants until five in the morning.

And if he has to sit through commercials to watch “Survivor” on cable, he’ll move on.

We are trying to imagine what it was like to be a general or admiral in that room and to have to sit through this.

"If meeting the deadline is looking possible, people are prepared to sit through long hours - the longest I did was 24 hours," he recalls.