Rimsky-Korsakov wrote, "They were very defective, teeming with clumsy, disconnected harmonies, shocking part-writing, amazingly illogical modulations or intolerably long stretches without ever a modulation, and bad scoring.

In this sprightly text, the Prince, "completely smitten" with Cinderella, does not take the usual, intolerably long time to track her down again the morning after the ball.

The intolerably long lines of the deck planks belonged to a prison corridor.

It took an intolerably long time to fish the keys out of my pocket When I succeeded I instantly dropped them.

After an intolerably long pause, a torch flickered aloft.

The eight-month lag seems intolerably long for devices that can mean life or death.

The reading seemed to Rodney to take an intolerably long time.

I have kept you waiting an intolerably long time, I know, but the truth is, I am loath to bring this matter up.

Many migrant workers and temporary workers face intolerably long hours and disgraceful pay at the hands of unscrupulous employers and these are the very people who require the most protection.

He adds that his speeches were intolerably long and dull, and that "his rising always operated like a dinner bell" (Memoirs, iii.