It's one thing to claim that events on Tatooine irretrievably changed the big-budget blockbuster for the worse, but another to lay responsibility at the door of lucrative merchandising.
The first time the player-controlled Jack, in BioShock, picks up a Plasmid, wretches and screams, we know he has been painfully, irretrievably changed.
I felt creepy and voyeuristic knowing that his life was about to change irretrievably.
Exports would resume, he said, but never attain their previous levels because the spending-and-savings models of Germany's major clients would change irretrievably.
But there is a genuine sense that the game has changed irretrievably.
Clegg will try to persuade the electorate the party has changed irretrievably, saying: "The past is gone and it isn't coming back.
This HP acquisition will change Palm irretrievably and probably for the good.
And, when we can feel in our hearts that change will irretrievably alter what we believe must be held, do we resist change?
Figurative painting has been changed by abstraction, unavoidably and irretrievably, just as it has by photography and cinema, by advertising, the internet and other kinds of art-making.
In earlier decisions on juvenile sentencing, the Supreme Court made important assertions that apply to all juvenile offenders — particularly the absence of an "irretrievably depraved character" and a greater capability to change.
