The meetings were exhausting, interminable, and exhilarating. Thus it came to pass that pointless or interminable activities are sometimes described as "Sisyphean". Others were blocked or granted only after interminable wrangling. Boethius defined eternity as "simultaneously full and perfect possession of interminable life". During the interminable border crossing, horses were left at the mercy of the weather. The river and the riversides suffer point source pollution, utilized as an interminable garbage dump. He found the film's beginning "interminable", and overall, "very strange". Hegemony was always, for Gramsci, an interminable, unstable and contested process. Then, returning home, an interminable night begins. He realized that this would make the process interminable. Engineer Geoff Emerick described the meticulous process as "interminable". The "Tirthankara" show the "fordable path" across the sea of interminable births and deaths. Others found Cho's appearances "interminable". Polish ("Wieczna wojna"), Italian ("La Guerra Eterna") and Spanish ("La Guerra Interminable").