And with reason: they have reached nothing approaching a consensus on which of the two main parties they would prefer as partners, or whether coalition would be acceptable at all.
Eddery, awarded an honorary OBE in 2005, was loyal, generous, easy-going and grounded, and a remarkable natural horseman, but his second career, as a trainer at stables near Aylesbury, reached nothing like the heights of his first; he had one top-level success, with Hearts Of Fire in Italy.
In this respect, true tranquillity for human beings coincides with their being "assimilated" to God, so that, when this condition of serenity is reached, nothing is any longer felt as lacking in meaning and substance.
Brazilian political observers have reached nothing near consensus about how the panel of judges may rule.
Six months ago, most of the olive trees were hidden under huge tangles of gorse and bramble, and those we could reach had nothing more than a few tiny green dots where the olives would grow.
I ain't got no reason to reach for nothing".
In a video of the incident, Reid can be heard saying "I ain't got no reason to reach for nothing" before he is shot.
Reach for the sky without reservation and you might hit the clouds but if you reach for nothing you will most assuredly go nowhere.
In #11 a crisis point is reached: "No, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun".
