(1) She responds a little wearily to this theme, pointing out that male political prisoners “don’t as a rule get asked that kind of question”, but she explains that her daughter was well prepared.
(2) "Whatever happens the Sunnis of Iraq are the biggest losers," the MP added wearily.
(3) "You have to understand what that's all about," he says, wearily.
(4) There is less drama here, because the decay is predictable and wearily gradual.
(5) As the Verisign report concludes wearily: "Undoubtedly, barring some major international law enforcement effort, this trend [to illegal activity] is likely to continue indefinitely."
(6) "There's been very little evidence over the last 60 years that these sleeping pills do any harm," he insists wearily.
(7) However, the lack of any questioning of the European commission’s position on the timeline surprised Brussels veterans, wearily used to displays of EU disunity.
(8) The sociologist Leon Feinstein’s study children’s developmental abilities at 22 months and then tracked their progress to adulthood will by now be wearily familiar to many, but it bears repeating.
(9) Jail and youth detention statistics in Australia paint a wearily familiar picture of Indigenous disadvantage but in the territory they are catastrophic.
(10) When I spoke to Zusi last month he wearily referenced "the hype" about him replacing Donovan, while never really believing there was going to be any other outcome than Donovan making the squad.
(11) In Uganda , liberals and politicians rolled their eyes and sighed wearily.
(12) Which just leaves the wearily familiar argument that "marriage lite" undermines the real thing, with its much-vaunted promise of stability for children (or at least, the ones whose respectably married parents don't end up divorced).
(13) I've become wearily accustomed to this over my time working with Assange: the vituperation heaped on my author, the scorn directed at me for giving him a platform.
(14) Dead prisoners do not win votes,” Deborah Coles, the director of the deaths in custody campaign group Inquest, says wearily, acknowledging that she is angry at the soaring numbers and exhausted by the lack of progress.
(15) A wearily familiar narrative is already in place: the Britain of the Daily Mail and Crap Towns , the Britain where nothing works any more.
(16) In his commentary, Robinson writes that Chaplin "can move without warning from the baldly colloquial to dazzling yet apparently effortless imagery, as when the crushed Calvero gazes 'wearily into the secretive river, gliding phantom-like in a life of its own … smiling satanically at him as it flecked myriad lights from the moon and from the lamps along the embankment'".
(17) I always say the people who are most certain about what the model will be are the furthest removed from any responsibility for actually making that model occur,” he says a touch world-wearily.
(18) ‘We’re just happy to have the work,” he shrugs wearily.
(19) "We respect their right to peaceful protest," she says, wearily, "but anyone can see that this is all about intimidation.
(20) Salmond, both in his morning speech and in conversation, seems wearily resigned to Scotland's mainstream media being anti-independence, but he would be wise to pay little heed to this.
Weary
Definition:
(superl.) Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued.
(superl.) Causing weariness; tiresome.
(superl.) Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; -- with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study.
(v. t.) To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling.
(v. t.) To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance.
(v. t.) To harass by anything irksome.
(v. i.) To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(2) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
(3) SUNS 104, TIMBERWOLVES 95 In Phoenix, Grant Hill scored 15 of his season-best 20 points in the second half as Phoenix pulled away to beat weary Minnesota.
(4) Ectopic pregnancy on the vaginal portio in a 31-year-old woman weari ng and IUD is reported.
(5) The Coalition is appealing to the same change-weary voters with the message that Turnbull is a better bet to deliver economic and political stability and Shorten is untested, uninspiring and a risk.
(6) There is also world-weariness about such crackdowns.
(7) The now 8th Earl of Lucan has treated such sightings with weary equanimity, once saying: “I get a little tired when former Scotland Yard detectives at the end of their careers get commissions to write books which happen to send them to sunny destinations around the world.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest War weary Syrian refugees plead to cross channel through Eurotunnel at Calais.
(9) They are weary of being marginalised and no longer being considered in decisions made by management, so they will support action even if they know that it is not over the real issues.
(10) He sighs, though whether this is out of weariness and regret, or impatience at my line of questioning, is difficult to tell.
(11) But senior administration officials, with a sense of weary resignation, also called on people to put the leaks into context and insisted they had not done serious damage to US relations.
(12) Both sides, wearied by decades of fruitless diplomacy, cautioned that an initial meeting – scheduled for the "next week or so" in Washington, according to Kerry – will not automatically lead to productive negotiations.
(13) It’s hard to understand the photo’s power in 1945 to Americans, who were weary of the war and horrified by the incredible number of deaths by servicemen, especially in Asian locations most had never heard of, Buell said.
(14) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
(15) And weary opposition forces don’t like what they are seeing.
(16) Journalists and the public roll their eyes as he makes yet another passive-aggressive claim that referees are against him, directors tire of his constant hustling and players perhaps weary of his intensity.
(17) Despite the world-weary tone of a brutal review in the New York Times, which suggested that it added nothing new to the "groaning shelf" of homosexual literature, a story with an unashamedly gay protagonist unleashed a storm of protest in a country where sodomy was still illegal.
(18) His most celebrated aphorism was his response to a journalist who wondered whether Christian Democrats would ever be weary of wielding power: "Political power wears out only those who haven't got it."
(19) Obviously, there are some shops where fidgetty child fingers are more inappropriate than others, and I really am sorry to that off-licence, and I would have paid for the bottle of wine we smashed‚ except the weary young man on the till insisted I didn't have to, with the hardened air of a man who had mopped up a few rivers of glass and alcohol in his time.
(20) The final draft of the report from a panel of the world's top climate scientists paints a wild future for a world already weary of weather catastrophes costing billions of dollars.