Crammed together, they grow more uncertain, more interesting, more surprising; they come out of themselves and grow more appealing, and funnier.
But the fates of the captives, who were whisked into Colombia by hijacked helicopter, grew more uncertain after the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, denied responsibility.
If things did not appear alarming enough when Donovan McNabb broke his ankle two weeks ago, they grew more uncertain when Koy Detmer dislocated his elbow last Monday.
As the count wore on and the result grew more uncertain, Shorten was the first to emerge to deliver what sounded like a victory speech.
As Egypt-Libya relations grow more complex with the Egyptian military entering into the fray, the fate thousands of Egyptian workers still trapped behind the borders only grows more uncertain.
The Dow Jones industrial average slid 2.61 percent, or 268.37 points, to 10,002.18 Thursday, after briefly falling below 10,000 for the first time since November, as American investors grew more uncertain about Europe's economy.
The threats came as Iranian officials repeated their willingness to re-engage in negotiations with the Western powers over Iran's uranium enrichment program, although the prospects for such a resumption appeared to grow more uncertain.
Diana Taurasi's Olympic and professional basketball career grew more uncertain Thursday when the Turkish basketball federation said it had confirmed her doping violation and that her club team in Istanbul had terminated her contract.
These outfits are, however, an expression of an authentic Japanese experience: that of belonging to a society that until recently was extremely ordered and disciplined, but which, over the past decade, has grown more uncertain and unpredictable.
