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I'm not really sure who the last person was who did have a coherent idea of the future.
In some ways, Karzai's interview conveys a coherent idea of what he thinks the American role in Afghanistan should be.
Reading Liebling's pieces from Paris (and, later, from London and the North African front), you don't get a coherent idea of the course of the war.
Rather, it encourages the abdication of thought, and promotes a proliferation of mindlessness, and it does so at a historical moment when the President has proved himself to be pathologically prone to distraction and incapable of formulating a coherent idea.
What we have got to do is make sure we are visible enough, that we're doing work in local communities, showing people we're a viable alternative, that we have got a fully costed manifesto for the general election, we have a coherent idea of the way forward".
And it has never grown easier; she will, typically, spend "most of the day working on a piece not actually putting anything on paper, just sitting there, trying to form a coherent idea and then maybe something will come to me about five in the afternoon and then I'll work for a couple of hours and get three or four sentences, maybe a paragraph".
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After nearly a decade of scrapping with the Taliban, no end is in sight; nor is any coherent idea of what a satisfactory end might resemble.
Lacking any coherent idea, the show is motored by a succession of Lloyd Webber songs: Another Suitcase in Another Hall here poignantly delivered by Lorna Want, Oh What a Circus, High Flying Adored and all the rest.
That the film possesses unusual aesthetic force strikes me as undeniable, but its power does not seem to be tethered to any coherent idea or narrative logic.
What has yet to emerge is any coherent idea of what can be done to stop them exploiting quite so effectively the extraordinary freedom and power of the digital revolution.
It aspires to be a grand statement on crime, celebrity, and the country that worships them, but it lacks any coherent idea of what it really wants to say.
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