A lot of that music sounds like the result of extensive market research, with literally inevitable results: it plays it safe, closely resembling stuff people are already buying.
The award of the 2008 Wodehouse prize for comic fiction to Will Self took the process to its logical conclusion, with the victory for his latest novel, The Butt, literally inevitable since the day the shortlist was announced last month.
Maybe it was inevitable, then, that nascent photographs, literally written in light, flickered between science and superstition, defying our sense of the tangible.
Still, given that the agreement literally hits people where they live, it is inevitable that some Obama voters — and plenty of those who voted against him — might have misgivings.
However, all of the Bible reading, chapel prayer services, holding hands with girls on hay rides, and Wednesday-night devotionals couldn't stop the inevitable from eventually slamming into me, literally.
It is a powerful appreciation practice that can literally transform you, inside and out, making your happy, healthy longevity practically inevitable.
And it is literally up there, too, on the fourth plinth, presiding over Trafalgar Square and awaiting the inevitable games of traffic cone hoopla.
Getting dressed when you're getting old is tough - literally The Guardian's Invisible Woman knows a thing or two about balancing out the inevitable ageing process with looking good.
Such separation between the spirit of the text and the actual text itself are inevitable in any text, but revealing them empowers the reader and avoids the pitfall of a text literally falling into decay, into an almost eternal misinterpretation.
Hence the 2008 class of candidates and yet-to-be candidates will be playing out their inevitable dramas under constant scrutiny and relentless, unprecedented demands for accountability not just from the traditional watchdogs but from, literally, everyone.
Similarly, Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky (1974 19755) have argued that harmful relationships can be literally addictive for some individuals, leading them to chase constantly after momentary highs of emotion only to crash back down into inevitable despair.
