This is a powerful story of non-paternal social reform, doubtless chosen by the producer Rachel Perkins for that very reason.
Clooney plays Matt King – a name doubtless chosen carefully by Kaui Hart Hemmings, on whose novel this is based, but which now inexorably brings to mind Peep Show's Super Hans.
And there may be a natural tendency, doubtless exaggerated in those who choose to write about something as inherently controlling as design, to tidy things up.
It courts ethical dangers, in daring to characterize the bond between abuser and abused as a kind of perverse love story, though that is doubtless how some survivors and aggressors will choose to view their experience.
Literary gossips will doubtless enjoy Epstein's account of having to choose between two feuding Chicago intellectuals, the novelist Saul Bellow and the sociologist Edward Shils (he chose the latter, who became his best friend), particularly when he mentions how the two sometimes used to call him back to back, ridiculing each other's tastes.
Only four books of epinicia have survived complete, doubtless because they were chosen by a teacher as a schoolbook in the 2nd century ad.
Peter Carey doubtless knows why he chooses to illustrate his fictional history of Parrot and Olivier in America with a bizarrely doctored copy of Baudin's map of Australia as printed in 1830 in the Edinburgh Journal of Natural and Geographical Science No 3 (the last number of that unlamented organ) and to describe it as drawn by Parrot in 1803.
But they will doubtless settle for this.As it happens, Labour MPs did have a chance to choose a different leader in 2007, when Mr Brown took over without a contest.
Tunisians did not go to the polls to choose higher or lower taxes, stronger or weaker unions, better integration of the informal economy or an elimination of it, though they doubtless care about these things.
On her insistence that only consecration at Reims could make a true king, chosen by God (a view doubtless supported by the chancellor Regnault, archbishop of Reims), it was decided to advance boldly across the Île-de-France to Reims.
