All 5 Uses of
interminable
in
1984, by Orwell
- All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.†
p. 8.1 *
- And though, of course, it grew worse as one's body aged, was it not a sign that this was not the natural order of things, if one's heart sickened at the discomfort and dirt and scarcity, the interminable winters, the stickiness of one's socks, the lifts that never worked, the cold water, the gritty soap, the cigarettes that came to pieces, the food with its strange evil tastes?†
p. 59.9
- He was writing the diary for O'Brien — to O'Brien: it was like an interminable letter which no one would ever read, but which was addressed to a particular person and took its color from that fact.†
p. 80.9
- It had all occurred inside the glass paperweight, but the surface of the glass was the dome of the sky, and inside the dome everything was flooded with clear soft light in which one could see into interminable distances.†
p. 160.3
- The mystical reverence that he felt for her was somehow mixed up with the aspect of the pale, cloudless sky, stretching away behind the chimney-pots into interminable distance.†
p. 220.3
Definition:
seemingly endless; or long and unpleasant (often boring or annoying)