Incessant car sirens, trains, and the general hustle'n'bustle make city living hard on the ears.
Hundreds of small, autonomous agencies act out a horrifying parody of business life, each with a budget and agenda, competing to manufacture targets, action plans, advice centres, bids, training, and incessant, incestuous meetings.Money is frittered away on schemes that guarantee not to create wealth-generating companies.
(WHY, dear Lord, do they always scream?) I want to remember the difficult struggle of potty training and the incessant fighting and whining and refusing to eat a good square meal.
I've seen it in Yoga where the newly trained teacher becomes an incessant consumer of the yoga industry: more programs, more trainings, more courses -- just to feel "good enough" that one day they'll be ready enough and knowledgeable enough to teach.
No one, on the left or right, has much to say about how distant the benefits system is from our ongoing skills crisis, and the idea that people who cannot find work may well be in need of training and education, rather than incessant nudges towards the bottom of the labour market.
Commuters standing on crowded trains and drivers stuck in incessant and ever-growing traffic jams should be able to relate to the current problems and the severe need for relief.
Every day we see reports of celebrities, athletes, or people in the news becoming train wrecks due to drugs, alcohol, incessant purchases or gambling (leading to bankruptcies), and more.
Then there are incessant sophomoric sound effects (rain, horses, bicycle bells, a train, soda being slurped through a straw).
The book's protagonist, Guy Montag, secretly trying to memorize the Book of Ecclesiastes on a train, finally leaps up screaming, maddened by an incessant jingle for "Denham's Dentifrice".
