His narrators make urgent attempts to prove a theory — to throw labels at the immensity of experience, to define the indefinable — but their efforts invariably collapse.
Though similar efforts have been tried in the past, they invariably collapsed as journalists chafed at the idea of being told what to report and when to report it.
During the Cold War, Soviet bloc countries did well in the preliminary rounds ("the red hordes beat their capitalist foes more often than not — 46 wins, 32 draws, 40 losses") but invariably collapsed in the quarterfinals.
It was always very hard to get up the stairs in the interval because Moyra Fraser and Maggie had invariably collapsed with laughter and were rolling around hugging each other in these huge skirts".
Seated gnomically on a bench by a window, with his audience gathered in a half circle around him, he took up each shape in turn and showed us that the cube and the dodecahedron, no matter how you tried to prop them up, invariably collapsed, while the other three, whose structural basis was the triangle, held their shape.
Nevertheless, Lopate would have done better to stick to the principle that brevity, up to the point where compression collapses, invariably carries more implication than expansiveness ever can.
"Whether caused by poor construction or natural catastrophes, school collapses invariably have disastrous effects on children," said Cream Wright, UNICEF Global Chief of Education.
It is no coincidence that all the simulations based on the Meadows world model invariably end in collapse.
Although few milder cases of the disease with later onset, absence of central nervous system impairment, or longer survival have been described, GAN invariably causes the massive collapse of IFs in a variety of tissues, including Neurofilaments (NFs) in distended or "giant" axons in nerve biopsy [ 2, 3].
Periodic booms were invariably the prelude to financial collapse, often provoked by ruthless manipulators.
