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“If one could have a fine house, full of nice girls, or go traveling, the summer would be delightful, but to stay at home with three selfish sisters and a grown-up boy was enough to try the patience of a Boaz,” complained Miss Malaprop, after several days devoted to pleasure, fretting, and ennui.

As Raskin noted, 500 witnesses more would have made no difference, other than to lengthen the proceedings and try the patience of senators and the public alike.

The first dozen or so hours spent with “Death Stranding” will likely try the patience of a chunk of its audience.

Though Charlie Ebersol believes that American football is the Platonic ideal of a televised sport, he spent a fair amount of time, when we were together, critiquing the Monday Night Football telecast, both for its excessive commercial breaks, which try the patience of modern media consumers, and for the absence of information that is critical to a certain kind of fan.

I never set out to try the patience of readers by revisiting the subject so relentlessly, but then I had never previously understood the myriad ways in which a single secondhand automobile can be bad.