Some of the writers and artists who are wrapping fairytales in darkness are keeping to the spirit of the form as a truth-telling conduit, passing on the hard facts of life in deceptively thrilling and enchanted disguise.
And The Economist, in an article on the remarkable growth of China's trade, cautioned that the numbers were incomplete: because so much went through the conduit of Hong Kong, it was hard to tell with whom Chinese commerce was in fact conducted.An odd assortment of headlines from 1997?
While the Internet is the place where information yearns to be free, it gets stepped on hard when it touches the typical corporate conduit.
"I saw a lot of situations where we had a hard time penetrating into narrow void spaces and conduits," he said.
She is accused only of being a conduit for information, a role that may be hard to delineate because she speaks no Arabic.
But Power had worked hard to contrive the Kilfane waterfall, constructing a mile-long conduit to carry a stream to the top of the rockface in front of the little cottage.
Granite-gneisses are hard and compact but having fracture zones which act as conduit for surface water percolation.
Granite gneisses are hard, compact and foliated having fracture zones which act as conduit for surface water percolation.
He finds it hard work ("my ears get tired listening"), but he becomes a conduit for the eloquence of others.
The NATO official worried that Holbrooke, instead of leaning hard on the Karzai government, might see Karzai as a necessary conduit for cutting a deal with the Taliban that would allow the Americans to leave.
It is hard to ignore the fact that social media is currently a conduit for an almost unstoppable barrage of 'humour' - from Twitter jokes and Instagram captions to vlogger inanity and the monstrous creations of face swap apps, it feels like everything is designed to provide instantaneous, if fleeting, amusement.
