There's certainly an air of the sepulchral on debut single Holland (on paradYse Records) with its refrain: "Into dust we will all return," but it's a timeless and eerily comforting kind of meditation, on faith, loss and redemption, much like abolition-era hymnals – haunting and healing in equal measures.
With its clean prose, timeless political relevance, and emotional charge, the play was probably one of the few texts capable of engaging the sceptical Scot's interest.
Later, he spells Turner's importance out: 'This guy was a revolutionary, anticipating the impressionists and 20th-century art – anticipating Rothko probably – and yet he was timeless".
But perhaps the most interesting lesson to draw from the timeless story that is Hadley Buys a Coat (truly, it will be studied by scholars for centuries) is that boyfriends don't like boyfriend clothes.
She clung to the timeless in a world of insistent news.
The smokestacks of factories billow pollution into the ethereal, magnificently rendered atmosphere – Seurat seems to paint every molecule of oxygen and smoke – but here on the riverside is a moment of timeless summer peace.
This is not because of the usual cliches about Arab or Ottoman cities – that they are "timeless", "medieval" and so on.
Applying new labels to a timeless problem veils the jagged reality with woolly language – often used to justify actions that directly harm those most in need.
Aside from Wendy's "Tena Lady moment" there's not much zeitgeist surfing to be done here, which actually serves to heighten the timeless Pinteresque intensity of the piece (yes, the word "piece" actually feels suitable this week).
Cristina Anolín, the Dominican hospital's medical director, said: "There was a time in the hospital where we started to receive several cancer patients rejected from other health centres in the city because, since they were terminal cases, they were seen just as timeless bed occupants.
I felt as I had in other great cities at night - as if I was in a timeless and magical place.
