prolongment

But compared to good movies, even dumb good movies, it's a pretty paltry exercise in franchise prolongment.

GreenCine Daily: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. 2007

"While the alleged perpetrator still considers himself not guilty and his case currently on appeal, the complainant justifiably may perceive Mashabane's re-appointment as condonement of his alleged actions and prolongment of her psychological trauma," said commission spokeswoman Yvonne Mogadime.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

Today's generation of professional conservators is competent to identify materials, analyze combinations of substances employed, estimate degrees of deterioration and propose a choice of methods for the physical prolongment of a work of art.

'Crimes Against the Cubists': An Exchange Golding, John 1983

The look the two men exchanged appeared to her a prolongment of their earnest interrogation in the picture gallery; but this time it struck her that both carried it off less well.

The Coast of Chance Esther Chamberlain

She has spoken out in her own defense several times (hmm ... can we get a protest on the unnecessary prolongment of this "controversy"?); most recently she's penned a piece for the Huffington Post.

Gothamist Jen Carlson 2010

Vale (NYSE: VALE), the world's largest iron ore producer, the company has settled on benchmark prices with most of its clients outside of China, but those in the Asian nation have yet to settle, in what has become an unprecedented prolongment of the benchmark negotiation system, which some analysts have interpreted as the beginning of its collapse.

Business News Americas - Top Stories 2009

But compared to good movies, even dumb good movies, it's a pretty paltry exercise in franchise prolongment. "

GreenCine Daily 2009