"The Secret Pilgrim," he acknowledges, is a summation of how futile and wasteful 40 years of cold war espionage really were.

Although raising birds has long been popular in China, it was banned for many years as a bourgeois pastime, decadent and wasteful.

Hooking up with the right person tonight might just make their teenage years no longer boring or wasteful, but lovely and romantic and rad.

We cannot afford another protracted civil strife after twenty long wasteful years.

Philip saw no possibility but to end the contention with a total victory, and after eight wasteful years cared very little which faction triumphed, provided the triumph brought back some semblance of law and normality to England.