"We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves".
Nature doesn't care about our political machinations.
And learn we must, if Los Angeles's notoriously fragile ecology is not to be driven one step closer toward cataclysm by our heroines' reckless machinations.
We urgently need to alter how we relate to the world around us and to re-educate ourselves in terms of the larger planetary scheme, hung, as it is, on a delicate ecological balance that is being dangerously disturbed by our many modern machinations in the name of science, technology, development and progress – and, dare I say it, capital.
Nonetheless, as research and Townes' example suggest, the unpredictable sparks of our own mental machinations should be something we don't want to miss any more than the majestic sight of a passing whale.
Ausubel is sensitive to our precarious position between safety and peril — locked out of full access to one another's inner lives, locked into the pitiless machinations of our own biological systems, left certain only of our uncertainties.
Then I have to tweet him as a public message, which means everyone else sees the machinations of our dinner plans.
Odd, too, that the same media studies students who wax less than lyrically about the insidious machinations of our "mediated" universe turn oddly silent when it comes to the mediation made by a computer and a mouse.
All this is observed by the keen eye of our protagonist, Cromwell, whose machinations lead him from an essentially secretarial job with the ill-fated Cardinal Wolsey to the executive power behind Henry's throne.
