But as we're seeing now and in retrospect have seen in all wars past, war grinds the psyche down, and everyone has a limit before crumbling.
Throbbing Gristle played an anarchic, cacophonous, noise-suffused music that its members regarded as exemplifying the world they lived in — "cars honking, trains going past, buses grinding gears, people shouting in the streets," one member, Genesis P-Orridge, told me.
The past tense of "grind" is "ground".
All day, trucks, buses and cars grind past.
At such detail, researchers can monitor the motions of Earth's crustal plates, which grind past each other at a few centimeters per year.
In places like California, where quakes are set off by well-understood forces that cause tectonic plates to grind past each other, seismologists can invoke centuries of earthquake statistics.
Sensors in the device (connected to the wires at center left) monitor the temperature of the stone disks as well as their acceleration and deceleration as they grind past each other.
Neighbourhood groups objected to the idea of cars grinding past their bedroom windows.
Hundreds of thousands of people are sheltered beneath bed sheets along raised highways, just inches away from the traffic, which grinds past, splattering them with mud.
I had walked along the rubbly seafront towards the town, heavy lorries grinding past, exhaust fumes wafting on the warm wind.
