(a.) Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings.
Example Sentences:
(1) And she had a very good point, because Twine is interminable.
(2) Re-examining Sigmund Freud's 'Analysis terminable and interminable' (1937) from the perspective of child analysis highlights the importance of developmental assessment and developmental forces in psychoanalysis.
(3) Those innocuous phrases often mask a world of private pain: tearful interviews, angry confrontations, threats of violence, shocking revelations and interminable waiting, waiting, waiting.
(4) But financial constraints were arduous and interminable, and he declined the invitation to renew his contract.
(5) For one last time, the two candidates came on stage together after weeks of facing off at what often felt like interminable hustings.
(6) ET 10 min: Am I the only person who found Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy interminably dull?
(7) A botched attempt to bully Rosie Webster into testifying at Fiz's interminable trial led to a thrilling car chase, which involved a displaced traffic cone and speeds of up to 30mph.
(8) Oscar planners have sought to shorten the sometimes interminably long show and have tried new ways to present awards in the hope of livening things up.
(9) This, my friends, is what it's really like to be a film journalist: the sweaty people carrier, the surly heavies, the interminable sitting around....
(10) On the one hand an interminable mud-slinging saga featuring at its centre a scarcely credible pair.
(11) But, despite interminable legal proceedings, their efforts have so far come to nothing, partly because studies commissioned by the UK government have concluded that a resettlement programme on what is officially known as the British Indian Ocean Territory was just not feasible.
(12) The debate over regional anesthesia and general anesthesia with respect to relative risk in different classes of patients will probably be interminable until studies addressing the issue begin to specify the treatment protocols more carefully and to control as many variables as possible.
(13) Radiohead's interminable promotion of their patchy debut, Pablo Honey, would have tried anyone's patience.
(14) At first we all thought it was a reaction to the near-fatal road accident of his younger daughter Kate - he and Mari had watched over her as she lay in what seemed an interminable coma.
(15) The updates on the Kickstarter page are a catalogue of little disasters and triumphs: broken moulds, patchy GPS reception, interminable Chinese holidays and, finally, huge stacks of boxes ready to ship.
(16) The question is raised as to whether the analysis of the generation of sound by a laser beam moving over a water surface at the sound speed c for an interminable time period requires consideration of nonlinear effects.
(17) The committee said successive federation chairmen have become "enmired in interminable internecine power-struggles that would not have been out of place in a medieval court".
(18) It certainly seemed that way, and it was gardening, after all, that got him through those seemingly interminable years on Robben Island.
(19) There was no statistically significant difference between the ICD users and nonusers as stratified by SAECG classification regardless of whether or not the interminate studies were included or excluded from the analysis.
(20) Freud pondered the nature of termination as well as incomplete, completed, periodic, and interminable analysis.
Terse
Definition:
(superl.) Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished.
(superl.) Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons.
(superl.) Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lossmaking chain of supermarkets, funeral homes and pharmacies said in a terse two-line statement that Stuart Ramsay had left the board with immediate effect after "an independent report, and at the request of the board".
(2) He replied tersely: “Di María is a fine player but we would still have won that game.” Martino called his winger “one of the five best players in the world” and said his country had missed him sorely in the final.
(3) A humiliated Trierweiler was publicly ditched by Hollande in a terse 18-word statement announcing that he was “putting an end” to their “shared life”.
(4) In a terse statement the New IRA said Kearney was shot after the group carried out "an investigation".
(5) "I think the figures are somewhat overstated in this country," he says tersely, "as it's generally the same three scientists making their voices heard.
(6) There is a significant gap between the plans of the Greek authorities and requirements of the commission, ECB and IMF European commission statement In a tersely worded statement, the European commission declared talks would resume when euro area finance ministers gather in Luxembourg on Thursday.
(7) Manchester United manager Ed Woodward is reported to have sent Chelsea a "terse" letter, warning them to cease and desist in their efforts to sign Wayne Rooney .
(8) Fielding questions from journalists after the game, Altidore opened with a terse stock defense, stating: "It doesn’t matter how I play as long as we win".
(9) A senior government official was more terse: "We don't want to see China patrolling the East and South China seas as though they think they own them."
(10) Terry, meanwhile, issued a terse statement in response.
(11) From the plague's ominous annunciation, the first dead rat, rotting on the turn of the stair in the protagonist's apartment block, to the end of the first act and the prefect's terse command, "close the town", plot fits meaning with tailored perfection.
(12) "They have cattle and now they have one of my boys," he wrote in a terse press release.
(13) In answers that ranged from terse monosyllables to rambling monologues, Cayne said he wished the Securities and Exchange Commission had looked into the way rumours about Bear were spread: "Regardless of whether there was a conspiracy or not, the bottom line is the firm came under attack."
(14) Head coach Doc Rivers has responded to the possibility with a very terse "it's stupid".
(15) Additionally, while the answers were terse, the immediacy and intimacy of the president's responses offered a glimpse into his mind that might never have been exposed so starkly in more formal circumstances.
(16) Dan Ashworth, David Gill and I have carried out a thorough process in the last three weeks and ultimately we could not look beyond Sam as the ideal candidate.” Allardyce performed a minor miracle to save Sunderland from relegation after succeeding Dick Advocaat last October but, in a terse statement which will interpreted as churlish, the Wearside club failed to reference his contribution, let alone thank him or offer their good wishes.
(17) Westminster slumbers in recess, voters are on holiday or reeling from the latesthorrors of Isis – and Nick Clegg tersely announces Lord Rennard has been reinstated as a party member , all disciplinary action miraculously evaporated.
(18) "There is no truth to these baseless allegations," Egypt's foreign ministry said in a terse statement on Sunday.
(19) This time the drone attack was successful , from the US perspective, and al-Shabaab issued a terse statement: "The martyr received what he wished for and what he went out for."
(20) As for that last line, millions of voices cried out with “duh” and went back to exhaling tersely through their noses.