I try to reason away the possibility of our extinction.
What disturbs me isn't the possibility of our creating more human life, but our disregard for any life other than human.
We dropped enormous amounts of money into slot machines, which were rigged so as to preclude even a statistical possibility of our winning.
Coasting home was one fat anticlimax, despite the (never spoken) possibility of our burning up on reëntry like an obsolete spy satellite circa 1962.
But Chaney, by joining horror to suffering, made it an aspect of life; deformity was just another possibility of our physical nature.
Listen to a BBC radio broadcast (May 2012) about the possibility of our being in the midst of a sixth mass extinction.
Finally, the calculation examples successfully illustrated the possibility of our being able to design the controlled-release particles with a prescribed sigmoidal release.
If we enjoy Peggy's smile, we enjoy the possibility of our own exclusion and our own escape from the system of universalized prostitution in which we are mired.
I assume that Harold was written as a slippery character, but Mr. Baldwin's performance eludes the possibility of our getting any kind of grip on it at all.
The reason Israel must be prepared to use its military might is precisely because we know that there is the real possibility of our being utterly destroyed.
This is a novel of the liminal and the liquid, seeking new ways of living together and new forms of life in a world that humans have transformed almost beyond the possibility of our own survival.
