The latest round of talks between the producers' league and the stagehands' union broke down last night, leaving no end in sight for the strike that has darkened most of Broadway for nine days.
"We wanted to make the sofa as large as possible, which left no room for end tables," he explains.
But the amendment is unlikely to pass, leaving no clear end game for the bill.
Every outside influence was jettisoned in search of a purity of expression that, in the end, left no obstacle, nothing, between the viewer and the characters, their words and their faces.
Mr. Ellis considerately wraps everything up in a couple of explanatory pages, leaving no loose ends.
Determined to leave no loose ends, they then reversed their car back over his seemingly lifeless body.
A good legal adviser should make sure that your will leaves no loose ends, yet is flexible enough not to need constant updating.
That son, Dmitri Nabokov, who turns 70 on Monday, felt his own death approaching, he said in an interview, and he wanted to leave no loose ends.
The movie leaves no loose ends to invite or allow speculative or critical thought, or to spark further questions; it's a film of conclusions.
Given that the MacDonald case has been active for 42 years and has already been to the United States Supreme Court seven times, and given that Judge Fox is in his 80s and that this could be his last major opinion, one might presume that he'll proceed slowly and cautiously, to be sure he gets it right and leaves no loose ends.
