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"interminably" Definitions
  1. in a way that lasts a very long time and is therefore boring or annoying

122 Sentences With "interminably"

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Do you realize how interminably long a human lifetime is?
Every time he clicked, the loading wheel would circle interminably.
Fact and fiction are interminably wound up in Natalia Ginzburg's novels.
The full story of the redesign can be scrolled through interminably here.
Interminably long on-line job applications are a horror for job-seekers.
Without marquee talent, the season can be interminably long, winding and bruising.
Consequently, many foreign investors have left, rather than wait interminably to repatriate profits.
With a young son and no job, the week stretches before her interminably.
The primaries are dumb, along with wasteful, confusing, divisive, interminably long and undemocratic.
But much like the battle in this period war drama, Singh stretches proceedings interminably.
FOR THE families of those who died, it has been an interminably long wait.
From any of the hexagons one can see, interminably, the upper and lower floors.
Waited interminably for the first of what would be three buses to track and field.
It is never to rest, interminably, from searching for the archive right where it slips away.
For what felt like an interminably long period, the bombsight was connected to the flight controls.
One lesson of the Trump era is that things can feel unsustainable yet drag on interminably.
Long lines in heaven, with billions of children waiting, interminably, for their one chance to be saved.
"Use rupiah for all transactions in Indonesia!" travellers are told, as they wait, interminably, at the luggage carousels.
Thanks to popular usage, a few phrases in the English language have become interminably tethered to a thing.
Earlier Wednesday, Esper said the US had no plans to leave troops in Iraq "interminably," the AP reported.
He kept his head down and continued to work through what ended up being an interminably long campaign.
The whole thing looks like a petrified SpongeBob, the frames within frames posing as an interminably dropped jaw.
Mostly, there was a sense of relief at being spared another match in the interminably dull Balor/Wyatt feud.
It stretches interminably, devoting too much time to song and dance and not enough to developing characters and conflicts.
Inverted Utopia, Lost Illusions suggests no closure to Cuba's utopian dream but instead leaves us interminably in medias res.
In showing us a relentlessly self-interested and interminably mistaken Freud, it might be said he's done just that.
From the people who own craft breweries to those who frequent them, the craft beer scene is interminably, undeniably white.
My concern is that the Mueller investigation now is going on interminably and I think it is reflected in public opinion.
Interminably married with controversy, his creativity has often been overlooked in favor of his shock-and-horror politics and comedic taste.
Even Home Alone makes us wait for an interminably dull hour before we get to see Kevin bludgeon and electrocute Joe Pesci.
Lengthy openings make individuals and businesses wait interminably to have their cases resolved, while the openings impose more pressure on overloaded judges.
The action hops to London and then to the trenches of Belgium, where the War to End All Wars slogs interminably on.
This year, Independence Day included something most passengers haven't seen in a long time—freedom from interminably long lines at airport security checkpoints.
She copied it interminably, making thousands of drawings of the pattern, and then she collaged her drawings by gluing them onto large canvases.
And it doesn't look great to lead into the studio's first film about nonwhite characters with an interminably long featurette about white characters, either.
I still remember scratching the cellophane off Hybrid Theory's jewel case, floundering around on a skateboard with a Meteora CD spinning interminably in my Walkman.
For parents of more than one child, the tooth fairy years can stretch on interminably, but even only children can demand a lot of energy.
This August, Otis has taken up his customary July position in the back of the river, staring interminably into the water for a passing fish.
While he didn't have a timeline of this process, he noted that the he did not see keeping the troops in Iraq "interminably," the AP reports.
Though Finland has flirted its way through the international concert hall of music—who could forget The Rasmus, HIM and the interminably unavoidable Darude track "Sandstorm"?
There's a certain degree of depth to them, as though they can be likened to where our thoughts go to be interminably buried or reflected upon.
The show changed dramatically in the last couple seasons, wrecking the show's careful pacing and trading out the palace intrigue for interminably long CG action sequences.
Her heroes and their friendships are easy to recognize, as are the villains who make the lives of those around them as grindingly, interminably miserable as possible.
Justice will certainly be served if the system sees to it that the perpetrator spends an interminably long period behind bars for the felony murder of Corado.
That the process winded on interminably allowed anyone paying attention (Democratic legislators and reporters, for the most part) to familiarize themselves with a head-splitting quantity of minutiae.
The changes are due to kick in from January, but the PD opposes the reform, saying defendants would face years of legal uncertainty while their trials continue interminably.
After seven episodes of strategizing and interminably unproductive conversations about the value of life in times of crisis, the series has sputtered right when it should've begun roaring.
Previous CES keynotes from Nvidia have been both interminably long and peppered with genuine surprises, so if you're down for some deep cuts this could be one to watch.
You inevitably end up with trenchfoot or scabies because of the interminably bad weather and someone stole your wellies, so all you have is garbage bags over your sneakers.
But that's still not fast enough for some players of BioWare's latest space opera, who have complained that the animation that takes your ship between Andromeda's worlds is interminably slow.
And Mr. Biden now faces more than two weeks — an interminably long stretch — until the primary on the calendar his advisers have long circled as his political "firewall": South Carolina's.
Quick trolling by China's netizens uncovered the fact that the first reporter (Reporter with the Interminably Long Question, henceforth RILQ) was from an outfit called AMTV, or American Multimedia Television.
It also introduced the convenience / surveillance tradeoff: your phone could do wondrous things, if only you'd agree to an interminably long sheet of terms and conditions (and enable location services).
As the cast grows, many characters who were ostensibly protagonists get pushed to the periphery, disappearing for interminably long stretches as Johns and artist Gary Frank seemingly forget about them.
"Their business model thrives on conducting unending 'investigations,' of bona fide coverage requests, stalling interminably, running up their insured's costs, and avoiding coverage decisions based on flimsy excuses," the filing reads.
Every national election sees too many Americans waiting interminably to exercise their right to vote, with complaints abounding of broken machines, late-opening polling places, endless lines, and incomplete voter rolls.
Dill — played by Corey Stoll, who you may recognized as the coke-addicted-but-interminably-magnetic Peter Russo from House of Cards — is a high-profile journalist, we're led to believe.
We see images from this movie, too, and while it cannot exactly be compared to the Alfred Hitchcock classic, it still provided a brief diversion from the interminably indulgent happenings onstage.
The film is supposed to be a slice-of-life story about a family, but this one meanders to no end, making it seem like an interminably long film despite its short runtime.
I've used the Beoplay H6 while making my way around the interminably noisy London, and I can't say I strictly agree with B&O's position, but I can see the sense in that thinking.
While we wait (interminably) here's the story so far... Rihanna treated fans to a cryptic Tweet and photo, suggesting she was back in the studio recording what was believed to be her new album.
Soon enough, there's reason for seeking revenge on both sides, but all the collateral damage mostly serves as an excuse for a whole lot of chases and action, some of which drag on interminably.
I think anyone would be pushed to the edge by this point, but it seems like a particular torture for the interminably celibate to have another person's sex life forced on her in surround sound.
Just look at Facebook's software, which can be scaled more or less interminably, and compare it to Koch Industries and their investments in fix asset in carbon-based chemical, asphalt, and pulp and paper plants.
Inside their traveling capsule, history and fate are immaterial, hovering outside where the road scrolls past — until, in one brilliant stroke, the membrane is pierced, and the interminably vast sorrows of an entire island rush in.
They watch her attempt to borrow a book she needs to train herself in computer programming, as if interminably hanging in the mathematics stacks with one's mom is the most natural pastime in the world for preteen boys.
Fear and anger for the children consumed my thoughts… As the night ticked interminably by, I tried not to think what the rebels would do to the 'skinny white muzungu with long angel hair' if they found me.
PRINCE SULTAN AIR BASE, Oct 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday that Washington aimed to bring U.S. troops withdrawing from Syria back to the United States, and not for them to stay in Iraq "interminably".
Crafts's wordless manifesto packs a lot of emotion into six minutes: from the first plucks of Laraaji's harp-centric score, Glass Gardens is a sad-eyed reflection on the future that faces a society stuck in the interminably souped-up present.
When the context isn't so explicitly for entertainment value — when so many women see themselves in Hillary's exhausting and exhaustive efforts to impress and satisfy the interminably unsatisfied men in her professional life — Trump's haranguing shtick proves far less effective.
"The aim isn't to stay in Iraq interminably, the aim is to pull our soldiers out and eventually get them back home," Esper said in front of a Patriot missile battery at the Prince Sultan Air Base near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
It's true that confidential conversations within the executive branch about matters pertaining to the president's constitutional duties may well be covered by executive privilege, but "I can't answer because that might be covered by a privilege" just deflects the inquiry interminably.
"Go to the sound of the guns" has become a clarion call for responding police in the wake of "lessons learned" analysis that revealed that at Columbine, onscene law enforcement waited an interminably long time — some 47 minutes — before making entry.
Google wasn't allowed to share, or even mention, that it receives such letters until earlier this year, when the company announced that a gag order on a letter it previously received had been lifted — gag orders otherwise keep National Security Letters classified interminably.
Those who insist single payer rationing is some kind of invented conservative boogeyman should talk about what completely government-controlled single payer looks like at the Veterans Administration hospitals, where we know of all too many patients who died while waiting interminably for care.
The misread memo that brought down the Berlin WallLate in the afternoon of November 9, Günter Schabowski, a senior official in the GDR's ruling Socialist Unity Party, held one of his regular press briefings, which were known to be interminably boring displays of propaganda.
I defy you to hum any of the tunes on your way out of the theater; if anything, you'll retain the key phrase from an interminably long interlude — "trip a little light fantastic" — which may embed itself into your brain as a not terribly pleasant earworm.
In essence, he embarks on the mode of transport that gave birth to this warped creation—"All Star" lyrics sang over the interminably melancholic tone of Evanescence's "Bring Me To Life"—presses reverse, and sets the train back across the tracks and toward the place it came from.
"No one really asked me if I was married, so I didn't have to answer that question," Hideki Matsuyama, revealing that he was married, in a press release to Japanese media, who interview him interminably after every round, but seemingly never ask him about his off-course life.
In wintertime, the heat will be kept just above testicle-freezing temperatures, and in summer (which, in this age of global warming, runs long, sometimes interminably), the temperature will be so oppressively hot – the degradation of humanity within its walls, so great – that Holman becomes, literally, hell on earth.
When I wasn't on the iPhone with the cable company during the next days — punching in numbers, interminably on hold, explaining that yes, I had plugged and unplugged — I realized that I could do without the television and the landline, but the loss of the web was harrowing.
Nothing sows discord and despair quite like an interminably long and messy American election cycle, and maybe that's the comedic logic a bunch of cynical capitalists were operating from when they had the bright idea to use the 2020 presidential candidates' policies and likenesses on Valentine's Day cards this year.
As you know, TMZ broke the story ... Whitney Houston died the evening of the same annual party back in 2012 when she was found in her bathtub at the Beverly Hilton, dead from an OD. As for Diddy, he gave an acceptance speech that was interminably long -- 50 minutes, seriously.
While other laws, too, prohibit companies such as AT&T and Verizon from throttling or block internet traffic on a whim, the interminably named "California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act of 2018" also cancels out a number loopholes not addressed in the underlying rules of the 2015 order, but in the 300-pages worth of explanations that accompanied it.
There were several setbacks and reversals in the "Phase 3" stimulus talks, interminably long late-night meetings that ended with little visible progress, and tedious reviews of legislative language in order to make sure one side wasn't trying to slip something past the other — all of which dragged out a final vote days after many expected it to take place.
Hologram USA, which finally opened in November of last year after over a year of delays, currently features two shows that play at alternating 30 minute intervals: the aforementioned Billie Holiday: Alive in Hollywood, and Ray J and Kato's Sexy Hollywood Freakshow, a mercifully brief yet interminably long-feeling combination of sideshow performance and burlesque hosted by a man best known for fucking Kim Kardashian and a man best known for staying in O.J. Simpson's house one time.
Green White Green is a coming of age film revolving around three teenagers, who seem on an interminably long wait for university.
With the populations and resources of potentially dozens of worlds on each side, the war is bound to continue interminably before either side is exhausted.
Photoplay magazine complained that all colors were reduced into terms of reds and greens, and that "the story is dull, trite, and drawn out interminably.""The Shadow Stage", Photoplay, December 1917, p. 118.
During the end credits, Harry is seen standing inside an iron Otis elevator that is interminably descending, presumably to Hell. As the screen fades to black, Cyphre can be heard whispering, "Harry" and "Johnny", claiming his dominion over both their souls.
In 2005, Are You Dead Yet? was ranked number 485 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time. However, it was criticized by Paul Stenning in Terrorizer as "interminably weak" and destructive of the band's "remaining credibility".
Recently sacked and interminably single, Carter is in a rut. So when he spies his beautiful ex-girlfriend through a library bookshelf, for a brief moment, things promise to get a whole lot better. But she is nine months pregnant. And about to go into labour.
Despite the series of successful strike actions and public relations victories, the Passaic labor stoppage dragged on interminably, with no end in sight. As early as March 28, 1926, strike leader Albert Weisbord had appealed to the American Federation of Labor's Executive Council for help.Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States, vol. 10, pg. 157.
Dengsheng is foggy. Dengsheng has one of the lowest sunshine totals in China (less sunshine annually than London), and most days are cloudy even if without rain. This is especially so in the winter months, when it is typically interminably grey and dreary. Spring (Mar-Apr) tends to be sunnier, warmer and drier than autumn (Oct-Nov).
Overlooking for a moment the complications posed by Gettier problems, philosophy has essentially continued to operate on the principle that knowledge is justified true belief. The obvious question that this definition entails is how one can know whether one's justification is sound. One must therefore provide a justification for the justification. That justification itself requires justification, and the questioning continues interminably.
Miller compared the book to "an online discussion". She described Crews's discussion of recovered- memory therapy as "scathing" and praised his style of writing. She credited Crews with supporting his objections to Freud's personal qualities and theories empirically with careful research, but also wrote that Crews's work could seem crankish and obsessive. She observed that scientific debate about repression could continue interminably, like an Internet "flame war".
" Charles Spencer of The Daily Telegraph reviewed the 2002 performance at the Royal Court Theatre in London: "The first line of Nightsongs is to prove eerily prophetic. 'I can't stand it any more. No I can't bear it.' It is a feeling likely to be shared by anyone unlucky enough to sit through this wretchedly pretentious, interminably boring drama by the Norwegian dramatist Jon Fosse.
Getting back from Marseille, he accosted in La Goulette. On his own, he advanced to the bridge, waving his arm raising a large white tissue to greet the crowd. "We were hundreds of millions coming to cheer him, interminably in a huge frenzy", testified his former minister Tahar Belkhodja. On 3 June, the internal autonomy conventions were signed by Ben Ammar and Faure, Mongi Slim and the French minister for Tunisian and Moroccan affairs, Pierre July.
Elsewhere, he labels the war "25 years of indecisive, over-ambitious and, on occasions, truly disastrous conflict". The near equality between the European powers in this period meant the 1635-1659 conflict, like other wars, was inconclusive, Spain and France effectively settling for a draw. Rob Stradling, an expert in Spanish history, and formerly Professor of History at Cardiff University, argues that had France not moderated its demands in 1659, the war would have been continued interminably.
The plot of the 1964 film Fate Is the Hunter had no relation to the book. Gann had written some early drafts of the script, but was so unhappy with the final result that he asked to have his name removed from it. In his autobiography, A Hostage to Fortune, Gann wrote, "They obliged and as a result I deprived myself of the TV residuals, a medium in which the film played interminably."Gann 1978, p. 457.
343 of which he became the leader on February 6, 1961.Celebrating the anniversary of the Kataeb in 1971 with Pierre Gemayel The discussions about creating the Phalange Security wing featured several conflicting opinions and lasted interminably before the Party took its final decision to agree to the presence of Regulatory Forces. On January 23, 1961, the Political Bureau dissolved the militants' organization before including its members in the Lebanese Phalange Party and Hawi created the Kataeb Regulatory Forces.Political Bureau Resolution no.
Melancholy is the result of the infant's sensing the mother's indifference at the moment of separation. Henceforth, he will be unable to mourn, having been unable to recognize loss in the mother's eyes. Weaning is a mirroring that leaves the subject both unable to mourn and unable to care—leaves the child in the state of melancholy. Melancholy for Hassoun is the result of a gesture that leaves the infant to suffer interminably for having spied the mother's indifference at the moment of weaning.
Consequently, the campaign dragged on interminably, some battles were won and others lost, truces and peace treaties were made only to be broken, and no definite result was achieved. The capture of the Count of Carmagnola in an old print. Carmagnola's most important success was the battle of Maclodio (1427), but he did not follow it up. The republic, impatient of his dilatoriness, raised his emoluments and promised him immense fiefs including the lordship of Milan, so as to increase his ardour, but in vain.
The film's style, described as "Eurotrash,"The Pinnochio Theory blog entry on Boarding Gate written by Steven Shaviro, published April 5, 2008 is—according to Assayas—an experiment in "constructing a project around B-movie economics". Assayas decided to embark on the "B-movie" concept after frustrating financial complications interminably delayed production of another of his projects, intended to be "a very French film focusing on provincial life;" similar circumstances led to making of his previous film with Maggie Cheung, Irma Vep. The total cost of the film was under €2 million.
Alteration of different genes will have varying effects on the cell. Not all mutations will significantly affect the proliferation of the cell. However, if the insertion occurs in an essential gene or a gene that is involved in cellular replication or programmed cell death, the insertion may compromise the viability of the cell or even cause the cell to replicate interminably – leading to the formation of a tumor, which may become cancerous. Insertional mutagenesis is possible whether the virus is of the self-inactivating types commonly used in gene therapy or competent to replicate.
Wallace recalled that "with street-friendly dance music like Happy Mondays and Soul II Soul in the ascendant, by the time the record was released in 1990 it tanked. Having toiled interminably over it – much as Talk Talk did with Spirit of Eden – they watched it disappear, seemingly without trace." Campbell reflected that there "wasn't really a hope in hell" for the album to be successful, referring to its commercial response as "the mood of the record". Despite its poor sales, Song was critically acclaimed for its unique sound.
One of the most notable things about Winged Victory is how it challenges the common perception of the war in the air during the First World War, especially when compared with other contemporary fiction. Unlike most other "air" novels of the time (e.g. Biggles ), it fits neatly into the canon of so-called "Disenchantment" novels, which while well regarded in the present day, were largely ignored. While it acknowledges that there are high scoring aces, who seem invulnerable (notably the character of "Mac"), most of the characters find the war interminably unpleasant, alternatively horrid and dull, enlivened only by regular nihilistic drinking binges.
The suffering in the "sad Rose", however, also lends an anxiety to the poem's melancholy, an anxiety that is supported by the allusions to the Irish heroes, buried interminably in Irish ground and in Irish memory. The Druid, a priest, magician and soothsayer of the ancient Celtic religion, long an extinct specimen of Ireland, is here described with romantic and wonderful qualities: "wood-nurtured, quiet-eyed" (line 4). Yeats mourns the lack of the good in occult religion of the past; furthermore, the mention of Cuchulain and Fergus recalls their tragic ends. Cuchulain was a mythological hero with an Achilles-like story, an unbeatable warrior defeated because of a small weakness.
More than the dissolute noblemen they appear to be, Alec and Seregil are skillful spies, dedicated to serving queen and country. But when they stumble across evidence of a plot pitting Queen Phoria against Princess Klia, the two Nightrunners will find their loyalties torn as never before. Even at the best of times, the royal court at Rhíminee is a serpents' nest of intrigue, but with the war against Plenimar dragging on interminably, treason simmers just below the surface. And that's not all that poses a threat: A mysterious plague is spreading through the crowded streets of the city, striking young and old alike.
A portly, interminably cheerful cat who believes positive reinforcement (mostly through hugging) solves all problems, Chubby Huggs is referred to by Rob as the Dalai Lama of cats because of his peacemaking abilities. Once Chubby is locked in his hug position, he is unable to move for 10 minutes—a fact Rob used against him by tricking Chubby into hugging a teddy bear tightly so Satchel could carry him home. He once had a "little mouse friend" named Fowly Mouse who hated him and was vicious toward him, even though Chubby would take the threats as words of kindness, à la Ignatz Mouse and Krazy Kat.
Three teenagers seem to be on an interminably long wait for university. In the hiatus, they carry on with various shenanigans. Uzzie tries his hand on becoming an artist, his friend Segun keeps a bag packed for an always impending trip to New York and the other one tries to make his father believe in and respect him. Their 'lounging and chilling' sessions help the audience understand what drives the average young Nigerian; the audience sees the American and hip hop influence, the Boko Haram issue, the hankering after 'going abroad' and the lack of direction that sometimes leads young people down the wrong path.
Planted by former convict, politician, farmer and inventor William Bland in 1842, the Bland Oak was the largest tree in Australia until it split in two parts after a storm early on New Year Day 1941. Its dissipated wood was assembled and carved into the Mayoral chair, which is currently housed at Fairfield City Museum & Gallery in Smithfield. Despite the incident, the oak tree still remains to be the largest of its kind in Sydney, with its interminably sprawling crowns and prominent canopy, providing decent shade.Fairfield City Council - Culture and Heritage Located in the suburb of Carramar in Oakdene Park, which lies in Bland Street, the tree is around tall and has a width of more than .
Echoing the majority view, Martin Morrow's review on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation website was very critical of the film, labeling it "a dud," declaring: "Hilary Swank may look the spitting image of Earhart in those vintage newsreels, but her performance is more insipid than inspiring. Mira Nair directs as if she were piloting an overloaded plane on an endless runway – the film lumbers along interminably, never achieving takeoff ... As the film limps to a close, Amelia has accomplished a feat we didn't think possible: it has made us indifferent to this real-life heroine's tragic fate."Morrow, Martin. "Review: 'Amelia' – Hilary Swank's evocation of legendary pilot Amelia Earhart just doesn't fly." cbc.
" Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote, "Stanley Kubrick's production of 'The Shining', a ponderous, lackluster distillation of Stephen King's best-selling novel, looms as the Big Letdown of the new film season. I can't recall a more elaborately ineffective scare movie." It was the only one of Kubrick's last nine films to receive no nominations at all from either the Oscars or Golden Globes, but was nominated for a pair of Razzie Awards, including Worst Director and Worst Actress (Duvall), in the first year that award was given. Vincent Misiano's review in Ares Magazine concluded with, "The Shining lays open to view all the devices of horror and suspense – endless eerie music, odd camera angles, a soundtrack of interminably pounding heart, hatchets and hunts.
The comedia, otherwise known as the moro- moro, and the zarzuela were presented for the first time in the Ilocos in the 19th century. The comedia, a highly picturesque presentation of the wars between Christians and Muslims, and the zarzuela, an equally picturesque depiction of what is at once melodrama, comic-opera, and the skit interminably preoccupied with the eternal theme of boy-meets-girl-who-always-live-happily- ever-after-against-seemingly-impossible-odds are still as popular today as they were when first staged in the Ilocos. The comedia was scripted from the corridos like Principe Don Juan, Ari Esteban ken Reyna Hipolita, Doce Paris, Bernardo Carpio, Jaime del Prado. Marcelino Mena Crisologo helped popularize the zarzuela based on the culture and tradition of the Ilokanos particularly those in Vigan, Ilocos Sur.
Both Erich Kordt and his brother, Theodor, played a part in the Oster Conspiracy of 1938, which was a proposed plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler if Germany went to war with Czechoslovakia over the Sudetenland. Theodor Kordt, who acted as Chargé d'Affaires at the London embassy, was considered a vital contact with the British on whom the success of the plot depended; the conspirators needed strong British opposition to Hitler's seizure of the Sudetenland. Erich used his brother as an envoy to urge the British government to stand up to Hitler over the Czechoslovakia crisis, in the hope that Army officers would stage a coup against Hitler. However, in the event, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, apprehensive of the possibility of war, negotiated interminably with Hitler and eventually conceded to him.
In dealing with the immovable Smith, Wilson's ministers adopted a programme of deliberate frustration and delay: Britain would interminably stonewall the Rhodesian Prime Minister, maintaining the facade of continued negotiation by very occasionally repeating their stance, in the hope that either Smith would back down, or his Cabinet would eventually lose faith in his negotiating prowess and replace him with somebody more malleable. Wood writes that Wilson, Bottomley and their Labour contemporaries were "distracted by their own political agendas", and did not understand the extent of Rhodesia's considerable disillusionment with Britain by this time. Effectively "kicked ... out of the Commonwealth", as Huggins later commented, a fortress mentality was developing in Salisbury, propelling it towards unilateral action. Wood concludes that Britain's maintenance of this stonewalling tactic was misjudged, and only exacerbated the Rhodesian government's feeling of alienation.
The underlying music is J.S. Bach's first prelude from The Well-Tempered Clavier, but at double the normal speed, with each phrase repeated interminably in a minimalist manner that parodies Glass. On top of this mind-numbing structure is added everything from jazz phrases to snoring to heavily harmonized versions of "Three Blind Mice" to the chanting of a meaningless phrase ("Koy Hotsy-Totsy," alluding to the art film Koyaanisqatsi for which Glass wrote the score). Through all these mutilations, the piece never deviates from Bach's original harmonic structure. The humor in P. D. Q. Bach music often derives from violation of audience expectations, such as repeating a tune more than the usual number of times, resolving a musical chord later than usual or not at all, unusual key changes, excessive dissonance, or sudden switches from high art to low art.
Fate Is the Hunter was nominally based on the bestselling 1961 memoir of the same name by Ernest K. Gann, but the author was so disappointed with the result, as it bore no relation to the book which was about Gann's own early flying career, that he asked to have his name removed from the credits. In his autobiography, A Hostage to Fortune, Gann wrote, "They obliged and, as a result, I deprived myself of the TV residuals, a medium in which the film played interminably". (Some prints of the film were released with Gann's name still in the opening credits immediately before that of Harold Medford, author of the screenplay.)Gann 1978, p. 457. The "Consolidated Airways" jet aircraft used in the film, called "Blue Ribbon", was one of two fabricated from DC-7(B) donors, the second was used to create the crash scene (on the beach).
At the age of four Juan Farrow began hitting tennis balls interminably against a wall with a broomstick, under the tutelage of his neighbor, Dr. Johnson. Since African-Americans were not allowed on the public courts in Virginia, Johnson sent Farrow, as he had Ashe, to Sumner High School in St. Louis to learn under the coaching of Richard Hudlin, a tennis star at the University of Chicago in the 1920s who helped break down racial barriers. Hudlin lived at the vacated St. Louis Armory while hosting the best young tennis players in the St. Louis area to hone their games on the 6 hardwood courts.Armory. Accessed 26 September 2016. Arthur Ashe and his friend Pancho Gonzales came to coach Farrow, who won Missouri state singles championships for Sumner High School in 1974, 1975, and 1976, and went on to star at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE).
There are, to be sure, some lovely long shots of Cuban villages and the colorful coast...But the main drama, that of the ordeal, is played in a studio tank, and even some fine shots of a marlin breaking the surface and shaking in violent battle are deflated by obvious showing on the process screen." The film has been described as the "most literal, word-for-word rendition of a written story ever filmed". Time noted that "the script follows the book in almost every detail", but called the novel a fable "no more suitable for the screen than The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". Time pointed out that Tracy was "never permitted to catch a marlin" while on location, so the "camera could never catch him at it" and the result is "Sturges must cross-cut so interminably-- fish, Tracy, fish, Tracy--that Old Man loses the lifelikeness, the excitement, and above all the generosity of rhythm that the theme requires.
Despite his claims of not going beyond his commission, his actions provoked the Pentland Rising in 1666: surprised and captured at Dumfries, he was (according to some sources) repeatedly on the point of being put to death, but later escaped when some of his guards ran away, and he struck a deal (which was honoured) with the others to negotiate their surrender. In general he seems to have been treated well, his main complaint about his treatment being the interminably long graces he was compelled to listen to at mealtimes. When his captors, in a "merrie" humour asked him to attend a sermon, hoping to bring him over to their side, Turner joked with them (referring to the fines he used to levy on Covenanters) that "if I did not come to heare Mr Welch preach, then they might fine me in fortie shillings Scots, which was double the soume of what I had exacted from the phanatikes".Turner, Memoirs, p.

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