interminable
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Little happens other than chain-smoking, costume changes and interminable shots of color-shifting strobe lighting splaying across the cast’s cheekbones.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
He criticized the wars of his predecessors not because they were interminable but because they were unprofitable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
In December he was convicted of sedition and colluding with foreigners after an interminable trial that seemed designed to drag out his punishment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Some matches drag on in interminable tedium, others are over in the blink of an eye.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025
It was as though his eyes were holding their breath, while his mother looked at him, her face flaccid and querulous, interminable, clairvoyant yet obtuse.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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