When it did, the fluted columns of Wren churches would lie wrecked and broken and Henry Moore's figures would huddle in the tube like the wraithlike denizens of Hades or wind their wool like implacable, terrifying Fates.
Californians are no strangers to the deadly confluence of heat, low humidity and high winds that have created an implacable crescent of fire in Southern California, destroying woodlands, brush, homes and lives.
Because Mr. Braugher, whose acting style is invariably described by journalists as "intense," has been so successful at portraying wary, tightly wound, uncompromising characters -- notably Frank Pembleton, the implacable Baltimore police detective he played for six years on "Homicide: Life on the Streets" -- I'm pleasantly surprised by his looseness and amiability.
The journalist Ari Shavit told me that Grossman, in his hope for peace, had been unable to see the consequences of the implacable Palestinian bitterness that he had captured so vividly in "The Yellow Wind".
This week, the winds of change, Obama-style, have swept across the conservative and implacable Japanese political landscape with the election of a youngish, untried, left-of-center, new leader named Yukio Hatoyama.
Nevertheless, the chaotic, mist-swept top of Mount Ktaadn - "the raw materials of a planet dropped from an unseen quarry" - and the wrecks and wind-stunted apple trees of Cape Cod afford us the metaphysical shudder of a man confronting in implacable Nature an image of something purifyingly bleak within himself.
Willingham was implacable.
Her technique is implacable.
Implacable November weather".
