Enervating

Defeat by Ireland was not the embarrassment of previous meetings – and Andy Farrell's side have lost just twice in Test matches in two years – but it was enervating and all too predictable.

Such heat is obviously enervating but it hasn’t taken as nuch of a toll on Draper so far as it seems to have done on Fritz.

We'll see about that, but even if that works out for him, it will be at the cost of enervating America.

The wait was exhausting and psychologically enervating.

Indeed, there was something apropos, something viscerally congruent, with determining the winner of golf’s toughest tournament with a long and enervating playoff.