Experts have proven repeatedly that real estate booms are as uncontrollable as earthquakes.
It was magnificent mayhem, as uncontrollable as a tear-up on Rochester High Street.
Looking back to the first world war, what surprised him was that he had "had the temerity to express any opinions at all about a phenomenon which is, apparently, as uncontrollable as an earthquake".
In a bravura opening sequence, the camera stays static, like a parody of the "Modern Family" titles, as Pfeffermans drift in and out of the wedding photographer's frame, bickering, primping, as uncontrollable as a weather system.
And something as uncontrollable as the weather can drive up costs even more.
Whether the pair would now touch a player many see as uncontrollable on the pitch is another matter.
He still suffers from debilitating headaches, he said, as well as uncontrollable mood swings that have seriously affected his family relationships.
Of course, there are still times when she experiences what she describes as "uncontrollable storms" of grief, some of them sneaking up on her from nowhere.
Numerous conservative politicians and cartoons in the US and UK in the early 19th Century used the Frankenstein imagery to depict freed slaves as uncontrollable monsters.
"It is because we have got into the habit of regarding the footloose oligarchs as uncontrollable and the underclass as irredeemable that the inequality has been allowed to grow," he writes.
The cycle's stately title song summarized the turbulence in the remaining numbers — many of them collaborations with her band members Jack Petruzzelli and Keith Cotton — that portray strong emotions as uncontrollable outside forces that take people over.
