It is inexorable, like life when you choose it, he believes.
These brief pieces are packed with ideas and are structurally inexorable, like "Rigmarole," composed on Nov. 5, a playful duet for cello (Mr. Sherry) and bass clarinet (the dynamic Virgil Blackwell); and "Mnemosyné," composed on Nov. 17, a sometimes agitated, sometimes mercurial work for solo violin (the dazzling, intense Rolf Schulte).
But this idea of actors desperately fighting to escape the horrifyingly inexorable, vortex-like pull of mainstream cinema for the joyous relief of arthouse existence is surely utter nonsense.
When our lives draw to their inexorable close, we like to look back at what we've accomplished over the years.
Yet the undulant arms and churning hips did suggest an inexorable force, like water, only an untapped one, waiting for a choreographer to exploit.
Just under a year ago, he appeared at a public lecture in a wheelchair to announce that he was suffering from a variant of motor-neurone disease, in which the body succumbs to inexorable paralysis: like being imprisoned in a shrinking cell, he said.
The combination is dream-like, inexorable, and as Stanley Kubrick undoubtedly planned, makes you feel vulnerable.
Because of the way carbon dioxide persists in the atmosphere and in the oceans, and the way the atmosphere and the oceans interact, patterns that are established at peak levels will produce problems like "inexorable sea level rise" and Dust-Bowl-like droughts for at least a thousand years, the researchers are reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
And, for the romantics of the world, the resurrection of the Silk Road is a more attractive side of globalization than is the inexorable spread of box-like Wal-Marts or Carrefours.
What is this thing called "love" -- It is a mere form of chemical madness, hormones running furiously amok; Is it inexorable bonds formed between like-minded, socio-economically compatible individuals; Or is it something more -- a cosmic, near-divine affection that nourishes two entwined souls?
The great glacial sheets ride seaward like inexorable narratives, calving at last, with a roar, into books of floating ice.
