Books like his masterpiece, Crash, take an assumption so widespread that it has never been doubted, in the case of Crash, that we fear car accidents, and proposes the opposite: that we're perversely aroused by the collision of flesh and metal.
Too many disturbing doubts remain in the case of Troy Davis.
And allowing the guilty to walk free because of procedural errors — or because of the ambiguities of "reasonable doubt," as in the case of Casey Anthony — invites vigilante justice.
There can be no doubt that, in the case of Greece, critics of radical austerity have the better side of the argument.
All of them have their virtues, no doubt, and in the case of Carroll we may just be looking at an authentic phenomenon, but a little perspective does need to be retained.
Captivated by the philosophical brilliance of that novel (and no doubt swayed, in the case of many male readers, by its chilly eroticism), Kundera's admirers were happy to accept its use of the existential code as a means of delineating personality; or, to put it in the terms of a more traditional literary criticism, they forgave the thinness of its characterisation.
The belief that such demands are really demands for inclusion in the larger society has been thrown into doubt, notably in the case of Muslim immigrants.
It is easy to imagine the corresponding doubts that arise in the case of analytic constructions.
Orpheus, like Jason, is a character whose authority as a mythical figure is bolstered by his demonstration of recognisably human doubt, uncertainty and even (in the case of that fatal backward glance) weakness.
