The Lions were at least still in contention right to the end, trailing by three points entering injury-time.
"The plot is helter-skelter, and the end trails off into vapor," the critic Terry Teachout wrote, "but the narrator's utterly feminine voice redeems all".
Loose ends trail, and too often McGregor has to resort to his designers to narrate events for him.
But if you look down as you walk anywhere in the city, no matter how clean a neighborhood is otherwise, you will see hundreds of them, block after block - a never-ending trail to nowhere.
Elie Saab's icon was the pale, frosted Elsa, his catwalk a never-ending trail of princess gowns, with many in Frozen's trademark colour, the sharp pale blue of ice at sunrise.
It was anything but glamorous – no fancy hats or pearl-handled six-shooters, no dead-eyed gunslingers, just one lonely cowhand (Brian Keith) and the relentless grind of the never-ending trail.
A lot of the jobs, let's face it, are pure make-work: clearing dead-end trails through national forests, planting violets around school flagpoles.
Her arms stuck out, bare, and the quilt ends trailed across the floor when she got up to let him in.
Ask a vertical-transportation-industry professional to recall an episode of an elevator in free fall — the cab plummeting in the shaftway, frayed rope ends trailing in the dark — and he will say that he can think of only one.
If passion flags at times (even that ending trails off in seeming relief rather than a haunted hangover of desperation and anguish), the performance's assets far outweigh its deficits.
Ask a vertical-transportation-industry professional to recall an episode of an elevator in free fall the cab plummeting in the shaftway, frayed rope ends trailing in the dark and he will say that he can think of only one.
