What is "interminable"

Usage examples of "interminable".

Fed on scraps of gristle, isolated from his kind, beaten when he failed to make his daily quota of spearheads and arrowpoints, he had shyly retreated into beautifully interminable labyrinths of abstraction.

And the stopover in Port Chuma, capital of Gondwanaland, former European colony of Bamba del Oro, and now sovereign nation on the brink of social and economic catastrophe, was interminable.

The interminable stripping off in draughty buildings and the washing of hands and chest in buckets of cold water, using scrubbing soap and often a piece of sacking for a towel.

He collected a great deal of money for the war effort, and Maude Wendell, as the gracious chairlady for the Red Cross, supervised the rolling of interminable lengths of bandage.

There is one end of the room where it is almost intact, and there, when the crosslights fade and the low sun shines directly upon it, I can almost fancy radiation after all,--the interminable grotesques seem to form around a common centre and rush off in headlong plunges of equal distraction.

They had explored, though only in an imperfect manner, the vast shore of Washington Bay from Claw Cape to Reptile End, the woody and marshy border of the west coast, and the interminable downs, ending at the open mouth of Shark Gulf.

Kohler and the gestaltists regarded such problem-solving as evidence of creative, conceptual thinking, not the linking together of interminable chains of stimuli and responses.

As most of the Pearling luggers were at sea, it was a slack time for hotelkeepers, and when I entered the bar Juanita was alone, hard at work upon her interminable calculations.

It was a slow lightplane, so the trip had taken what seemed an interminable time.

The awful, interminable flapping of their wings, the ceaseless tempo of their movement, had long since dulled her mind to any chance of potential rescue.

The drive to Montpelier Square seemed interminable, and by the time they arrived they were both nearly frantic.

That business with the Romulans, and right after it the interminable famine runs for gamma Muscae V, and after that, the intervention at 1210 Circini, with the Enterprise caught in the middle and everybody on the four planets in the neighborhood shooting at her: it was enough to turn your hair gray.

August afternoon in 1950 that Simon Templar uncoiled his lean seventyfour-inch frame from the seat he had occupied for interminable hours in the creaking Parnassian Airways Dakota, and stepped down on to the tarmac of Athens Airport.

He would certainly be entangled with the Portuguese officials if he called at Recife, for example: interminable delay at the best, and at the worst some ugly incident, detention, even violence, they being so very jealous of a foreign man-of-war anywhere but Rio.

Whales throw themselves on the decks of whaling ships with interminable Schopenhauerian suicide notes pinned to their dorsal fins.