Word: nauseam
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...position, the sit-in could only be interpreted as an attempt to impose by pressure what was not obtainable by free and rational discussion. This is a form of moral absolutism that amounts to intolerable political tryanny. Majority rule has its flaws, and I have heard ad nauseam the argument that moral issues cannot be settled by majority decisions. But what was at stake was public policy--which entails a judgment on different moral stands and a consideration of multiple values; this cannot be settled by minority rule...
...portrayal of the first-person narrator, Joey Bertell, the only one in the novel who comes on like the white tornado. He has sung and danced as well as Fred Astaire, is a more cunning producer than David Susskind, more urbane than CBS Board Chairman William Paley, ad nauseam. The rest of the characters are ill-disguised caricatures of CBS executives. They are such a kinky crew that the reader may well wonder how CBS stays in business...
...Book Review, writers are producing journalism to make a living-an advance over writing hack fiction or Hollywood scripts. Beyond that, journalism enables them to escape from their own introspection, the "feeling of feeding on one's own vitals, of using up and then repeating and restringing ad nauseam one's autobiographic experience." Journalism replenishes their experiences of the world...
Nine-fourteenths of these songs have no merit, gain no successes by any means. The "hit" cuts released on 45's represent the worst of the garbage. "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" enumerates ad nauseam all the situations in which "They'll Stone you..." and its triple rimes get maddeningly predictable, e.g. "when you're walking on the street," and "when you're trying to keep your feet." "I Want You," after two passable stanzas, degenerates into similar rime-tagging; it also suffers from the tedious triple chorus of its title. One half-decent stanza late in the song suggests...
...story of Warhol, Sedgwick et al., ad nauseam, was an indigestible item in and of itself. However, the additional misfortune of printing it along with the agonizing Los Angeles riot story lent a nightmarish, Kafkaesque irony to both pieces. One wonders just which group is the more adolescent, futile and self-destructive. At least the Watts rioters had damn strong and pretty valid motivation for their temporary loss of reason...