The chaos surrounding the movie has surely contributed to its cult status.
That probably feels increasingly comfortable to Ramsay, whose success on American television has surely contributed to his problems here.
Kennedy may have enjoyed the company of writers, but the long history of secrecy and mythmaking has surely contributed to the paucity of good books.
The hubris embedded in this way of leading has surely contributed to the high failure rate, including in the case of Petraeus.
Boxing's instability, putting it kindly, has surely contributed to its current low-lying status as Don King's dysfunctional family, but far more influential have been other less risky and more lucrative sporting paths from poverty to public acclaim.
His long tenure in the quartet of the relentlessly adventurous saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter, who likes to keep his sidemen on their toes, has surely contributed to his artistic growth.
Such renunciation of democracy and human rights has surely contributed to the upsurge of terrorism in Egypt, which we repudiate but regard as a consequence of, rather than a justification for, Sisi's barbarism.
In the Times, Olin Downes issued a challenge to both the jazz and the classical sides of Gershwin's radically middle path, filling in Whiteman's racial omissions ("The American Negro," he wrote, "has surely contributed fundamentally to this art") and blasting "the pitiful sterility of the average production of the 'serious' American composer," as exposed by the vitality of Gershwin's art.
Ultimately, this has surely contributed to biases in the interpretation of the evolution of the biosphere.
Keeping LGBTQ people at arm's length has surely contributed to the marginalization of the community.
