Hurricane Irene was considered a 100-year storm, for example, and yet Sandy struck a year later.
We abhor pedophilia, for example, and yet our culture worships teenage girls.
Bill Nighy isn't in it, for example, and yet afterwards I had an intense memory of Bill Nighy being in it, the way amputees can feel their toes itching.
Benjamin Britten is a classic example, and yet those who were caught in his flame, even if they were burned, still have a great love for him, which is quite remarkable.
There are areas, moreover, in which it is hard to find any laws large tracts of the life and earth sciences, for example—and yet scientists in these areas are credited with the most important discoveries.
In Syria, Mr. Assad has repeatedly promised to make changes in the political system — ending emergency rule, for example — and yet has continued with a broad and brutal crackdown.
This may seem an extreme example, and yet the mechanism is common: many of the people who suffer depression or post-traumatic stress disorder after a disaster believe that the only way they could have continued to be the person they once valued would have been to have died in the disaster.
Kant argued for the noumenal unreality of space and time on the basis of certain antinomies that he claimed to find in these notions that the universe had a beginning, for example, and yet (by another argument) could not have had a beginning.
Voice-controlled information gathering is also readily available through smartphones with the Google Assistant, for example, and yet 45.5% of respondents said they are more likely to use their voice-controlled assistant than their smartphone when seeking information.
Straightening the top row of the keyboard and dropping the trackpad and hardware buttons provided room for a display that's 30percentt larger than any previous BlackBerry QWERTY, for example, and yet typing actually feels better because of wider keys and bigger frets between the rows.
