Word: nauseam
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...master entrepreneur is up to his Fifth Symphony, a multicultural choral fresco on spiritual texts, newly recorded by Dennis Russell Davies and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Like all Glass's other pieces, it consists of the chug-chug repetition of slowly shifting harmonies, ad infinitum and ad nauseam. Alas, what sounded fresh (or at least different) 20 years ago is now as agonizingly familiar as a Hemingway parody. Same old same old same old same...
...America's Greatest Sports Figure. This guy powers himself up mountains using only his quadriceps and a bicycle. Most Americans would get winded driving these peaks, for Pete's sake. But instead of following Armstrong and his teammates over the cragged peaks of Europe, we're treated to ad nauseam stories about Tiger Woods, whose accomplishments are myriad, to be sure, but whose claim to greatness lies more with skill and mental determination rather than those combined with true athletic prowess...
...positive team energy," or the chestnut so moldy it was banned from the Crimson sports page--"It was a real hard-fought win." As Red Sox manager Jimy Williams is fond of saying about his favorites, "Trot Nixon, he's a real baseball player." And so on ad nauseam...
...every primary there is a moment of revelation, and in South Carolina mine came the day I grabbed my bags and jumped off George W. Bush's bus. Most media hacks listen to the same speech three times daily, delivered ad nauseam to the 2% of the population that shows up at political rallies. But this hack was curious about the other 98%, and so I wandered into coffeehouses and barbecue joints, and eventually I came upon a place the Zagat restaurant guide missed altogether--the Roadkill Grill...
...late one night when his cell phone rang. It was an Arizona political reporter calling to say the Republican mayor of Tempe had just been outed as a homosexual, and was under fire from Arizona's conservative establishment. McCain didn't even think about it. He went on ad nauseam about what a good man the mayor of Tempe was, and how he personally didn't give a damn about his sexual orientation, and neither should anyone else. Until that moment I don't believe McCain had given the mayor of Tempe a second thought. Now he wanted to jump...