Athens was unravelling into chaos, unable to form a government and forced into fresh elections, plunging the markets into freefall as Europe's leaders abandoned any pretence that a Greek exit from the euro might not be imminent.
Turbulent choreography turned Felix Bürkle, Val Loukianovets and Mark Taylor into men unable to exist happily either together or apart.
All that falling backward into myself, unable to face anger, annoyance.
It would be somehow fitting if rappers, who made d.j.s obsolete, ended by talking themselves into obsolescence, unable to compete with their own tall tales.
Years ago he thought he could have an effect on Adam's life, but now he knows he's a spectator, a parent watching a child's sporting event, hands twisted into fists, unable to influence the outcome.
A country that once lectured the world on the "Washington consensus" of deregulation and privatisation is busy re-regulating Wall Street and nationalising Detroit.America has got ever deeper into debt, unable to kick the habit of living beyond its means.
After Calum was born, he didn't speak to his own father for three years, he volunteers at one point (the pair had forged a relationship of sorts as he grew into adulthood), unable to deal with the enormity of what that abandonment meant.
And this stone would seem disfigured and stunted, the shoulders descending into nothing, unable to glisten like a predator's pelt, or burst out from its confines and radiate like a star: for there is no angle from which it cannot see you.
He has a few days to try to form a government, but that attempt is unlikely to succeed, as this post-election analysis from Candole, a regional lobbying firm, argues:Prime Minister Fico's governing SMER will go into opposition, unable to find a coalition partner with which to govern.
The Travel Club of Upminster opened up the Algarve as a holiday destination and laid the way for hundreds of successful imitators, but this week, after 74 years, it went into administration, unable to keep pace with the rapid change in the travel industry and the fickleness of holidaymakers.
