So caught up in their emotions and quick-assessment of the impossibility of their work, they're stumped, they feel trapped and they don't know how to get out.
First, in place of the grave silence that was the great theme of early postmodernism (or late modernism, if you prefer), language announcing a postwar exhaustion, its own impossibility, as in the work of Beckett or Blanchot, there is a confident profusion of narratives, an often comic abundance of story-making.
Millions of people are empowered, enlightened and entertained through new technologies every day, but there is a cost to this connectedness, and at the very least the impossibility of escaping 24/7 work sets a poor precedent for a work-life balance.
But rather than surrender to the seeming impossibility of securing work in a country where roughly one out of every five young people is unemployed, and where their average length of joblessness exceeds two years, Barton decided to create his own job.
Due to the impossibility of developing the educational work successfully, it was decided to put in practice a new model of work, designed combining knowledge of musical pedagogy, music therapy and emotional intelligence.
While I was writing and speaking about ways to coach women into the world of work and crack the glass ceiling, June told me about the impossibility of women artists' work being accepted in museums and galleries.
As a nom de guerre it perfectly describes the impossibility of ever working with – or working out – the man also known as Richard Cowie.
Small wonder that, faced with the impossibility of creating a work that can ever truly express the artist's intentions, Tyler seeks an easier epiphany in his secret drug habit.
A provision of this sort is needed because of the unequal bargaining position of authors, resulting in part from the impossibility of determining a work's value until it has been exploited.
