In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home.