But as my long-suffering spouse can attest, good sense is not my style.

"He's been in here for eight years," said his wife, Linda, speaking in the tones of a long-suffering but affectionate spouse.

"We're the long-suffering, battered spouse in a dysfunctional political marriage of convenience," said Nick Gillespie, the editor in chief of Reason.

But they insist that theirs is the wisdom of the long-suffering spouse instead of the infatuation of the new flame.

This is the spot where authors usually talk about the love, affection, and patience of their long-suffering spouses, and Eleanore certainly deserves thanks on all those counts.

What she knows, and what she thinks, determines whether she is a victim or an accomplice, a long-suffering spouse or a kind of co-conspirator.

Nor is there more than a sketchy tie between Pavel and the evening's only other character, his long-suffering spouse (Suzanne Shepherd).

The real main character is Mr. Jack's long-suffering spouse, whose loyalties are never rightly placed with the flirtatious Mr. Jack.

Hardly to be taken more seriously are Wotan, in white dust coat, and his long-suffering spouse, Fricka.

In Gray's boldly imaginative retelling, the long-suffering spouse of history's most infamous rake becomes a praiseworthy enabler of greatness.