Heat echoes off the road in liquid waves, cars heave with asthma, and Fish's penis is sticking to his thigh in a way that seems irrevocable.
I hope Lucas is right, because the move to digital seems irrevocable, but I've yet to see viable solutions offered to filmmakers and other creative people to allow them to save their work and migrate their data to new software and new formats every couple of years.
When the Soviet Union imploded, the consequences seemed irrevocable.
"Irrevocable damage seems to have occurred with Mr. Simon's and Mr. Walcott's very conception of the show's central character," who "remains a blank passive figure, a tabula rasa scrawled upon by bad karma and a bad society," Ben Brantley wrote in his New York Times review of the 1998 production.
She had tried twice to stop drinking, but resisted going to A.A. meetings "because it seemed like an irrevocable threshold".
There was never any possibility of going backward in time, but somehow the year didn't seem quite so irrevocable on Memorial Day as it does on the 1st of September.
Unlike success on the coasts, fame in Nashville seems to come with an irrevocable ticket into the hearts and wallets of country fans who, like the heroes of a sad song, are in it for the long haul.
Such is the irrevocable burden of celebrity, it seems: To be loved is to be inevitably destroyed.
Recent data seems to suggest that we may have already tripped several irrevocable, nonlinear, positive feedback loops permafrost is melting, arctic ice is falling into the sea and an average global temperature increase of only 2°C by 2100, which has long been a target of the UN and climate scientists, seems like a fairy tale.
Recent data seems to suggest that we may have already tripped several irrevocable, non-linear, positive feedback loops (melting of permafrost, methane hydrates, and arctic sea ice) that make an average global temperature increase of only 2°C by 2100 seem like a fairy tale.
For example, Gianfranco Fini, the deputy prime minister, seems intent on showcasing his friendship with Israel as the ultimate, irrevocable proof that his party, the National Alliance, has made a clean break with its Fascist roots.
