Nevertheless, he raises a more general issue: what is the point of ceaseless, miserable striving, often in work that generates yet more harm and damage?
Mr Ackroyd, with his ear for English melancholy, surely makes less of the sea than he might have; foreigners have often thought the ceaseless surrounding waters, with their mists and sighs, are the key to the English character.
But it's also an essay on the ceaseless, questing movement of blacks, often by night, through American history: on the underground railroad, on the freedom train, on the A train to Harlem.
He has nevertheless spent his career tracking with equanimity the ceaseless mutation of the American language, often into zones that its stuffier defenders have scorned.
So many of us are not only ensconced in ceaseless screen life, but we are also often saturated in these cyber worlds in protracted, bi-polar ways.
And many employees concluded that they deserved the perks, since joining Enron often meant 12-hour workdays and ceaseless travel.
Darknesse Visible transforms the piano into an instrument that's alchemically capable of sustaining a continuous line of melody; the technique of ceaseless tremolo that Adès demands of the player (often, as on this recording, himself) conjures a ghostly shimmer from the instrument.
In fact wars often have very little impact on the ceaseless commercial flying that keeps the world connected.
They had to operate upon the difficult coast, often in adverse weather, under an almost ceaseless hail of bombs and an increasing concentration of artillery fire.
