Worse, it suggested that no one seemed capable of a bold or imaginative move - for fear of confirming the Zugzwang.
News that Worthing police have added music to their arsenal of weapons is in many ways an imaginative move.
Dikötter doesn't make the imaginative move into ordinary people's lives, their longings for stability and dignity, which Mao's utopianism so cruelly trampled.
Mr. Huston's least imaginative move is to give Web a recent trauma of his own and some grisly memories that need to be washed away.
The Prime Minister's picking him out instead of one of the senior ministers expected by the political pundits is a bold, imaginative move that may pay off brilliantly.
Tom Ricketts has often walked a fine line between clueless and indecisive during his two years in charge of the Cubs, but the Theo Epstein hire is being hailed as a bold and imaginative move, a case of the chairman identifying the best man for a big job and doing whatever it took to land him.
The chairman of the Football League, Jack Dunnett, described Maxwell's proposal as "a bold and imaginative move which I'll be watching with interest".
After a few more paradoxical cases, even more imaginative, Heytesbury moves on to consider difform motions.
Much of what you see in her performances in Europe can be edgy and imaginative; she moves easily inside the starkly questioning electric soundtracks of next-step European choreographers.
