WASHINGTON — The voices are breathtakingly calm, given the circumstances, as the pilot and controllers confront a terrifying series of events: bird strikes, a loss of thrust in both engines and the impossibility of staying aloft long enough to reach any runway.
While empathetic, I can explain both why they are wrong and why they believe they are right: I can argue for both the impossibility and the improbability of God and I can also offer a coherent explanation of why many people believe in a god.
But Carver gets a good story out of the woman's loss of her children in a fire, a story that explores both the necessity and the impossibility of comforting another person.
"But it is also, more deeply, a movie about its own nonexistence — a narrative that confronts both the impossibility and the desperate necessity of storytelling, and that short-circuits our expectations of coherence, plausibility and fidelity to lived reality even as it satisfies them.
Both describe in anguished detail the impossibility of serving a leader who refuses to communicate or collaborate on any coherent strategy.
"This issue cuts to the heart of the impossibility of doing both at once.
For years to come, Vietnam veterans turned up on the doorstep at Peg and Gene's farm, knowing they were good country people who understood the impossibility of being both angry and silent.
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The first was the impossibility of appealing to both Republican activists and independent voters.
