Were these troubles really so intractable?
Beginning in 1999, at the time of the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, Washington, two men -- let's call them satirists -- began to take on some of the really big and intractable global issues of our time.
Would someone in that sort of intractable situation really be comforted by recognizing life's absurdity?
If you're secretary of state, inevitably, every day into your in-box comes a lot of really nasty problems, many of them intractable.
There is no easy solution to this intractable problem, which is really a failure of modern society and its fraying relationships rather than a limitation of medicine.
Mr. Snider sings about the intractable, and his solutions are really just ways of working within the system so that it doesn't make you crazy.
Or is the conversation about school closure really a proxy for something more subtle, complex, and intractable?
"I think with any big intractable issue like climate change, there's really not one way to communicate that to everyone and have it be satisfying".
He added, "But it's a really bad thing for a scientist to have an immovable, intractable position".
