His situation — like all furious, intractable, predatory loves — is doomed from the outset and grows increasingly untenable, as Eddie, who is clearly terrified, makes more strange and awful decisions.
It was a show about loneliness, self-loathing, and hostility toward both the vexing minutiae (airplane seats, parking spaces, rental-car lines) and the bigger, more intractable conundrums (work, love, marriage, family, death) of modern life.
There is much misery in Terence Davies's new movie, and much of the fear that CS Lewis said was like grief, and also a kind of vertigo and euphoria at looking directly, as if for the first time, at the mystery of existence: the painful, intractable mystery romantic love will never quite be able to solve or explain away.
It's a perennial and somewhat intractable question entrepreneurs love to ask.
Two years later, he and his Beatles: An Illustrated Record co-author Roy Carr remarked of Harrison's religious beliefs: "it's difficult to see why he travelled all the way to India to import a God who, by the sound of him ('The Lord Loves the One [That] Loves the Lord') is as intractable and selfish as the petulant Jehovah of Victorian Sunday schools".
"With many of the world's most intractable problems," he said, "a kind of radical love and forgiveness is the only solution".
Finally, there isn't so much a fear as a love affair on the left with intractable difference, the reassurance of a stalemate.
If Mockingbird was about the rule of law and justice, about community and equality, Watchman tackles something even more intractable: the prejudice we find in those we love.
Todd had just confided about his second family who lived in the other dimension, and then he'd added without vindictiveness, as if he were simply stating a poignant, intractable fact that someday he'd disappear into their loving arms forever.
The doctor's journey to uncover his wife's shocking secrets brings him face to face with the troubling nature of love and grief, loyalty and anger, and the intractable blood-stained color of passion.
