Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, the film, told from the British perspective, is inescapably dated and politically incorrect: Caine's character refers to the enemy as "fuzzies" and the recruits on his own side as "cowardly blacks".
Yet in modern society we are, inescapably, members one of another.
But the plans do not acknowledge anywhere that all this would inescapably involve a dreaded reorganisation of not one but two key public services: healthcare, provided by the NHS, and social care, which is controlled and paid for by local councils.
After all, Lorre was inescapably alien, a man to whom the usual rules and social conventions may not apply.
Politics is inescapably important for politicians.
We are inescapably surrounded by their culture, iconography and ideology.
In one breath they denounce the courts' activist misinterpretation of the constitution's plain meaning, and then, in the next, lament that henceforth judges will be forever and inescapably bound by the plain implications of the precedent they have just created.
Inescapably, it seems a metaphor for the artist himself.
Politics and morality are inescapably intertwined and few politicians head for the moral high ground with greater alacrity than the prime minister.
Forgotten disasters Time to lay down the machetes Reprints Related items Terrorism: Who gains?Nov 20th 2003In any event, the notion that Jews are inescapably destined to be victims resonates widely among American Jews, though their thriving community, more than 5m-strong, probably suffers less anti-Semitism than any in the diaspora.
This he contrasted with the inescapably perspectival character of moral thinking.
