Some Cariocas have found dark humor in the sheer randomness.
I also loved Kate Atkinson's Life After Life (Doubleday), an exploration of the sheer randomness of how we are who we are.
In the noir of Los Angeles, Gopnik postulates, there is a logic that connects disparate elements, but in Florida we have only illogic — the sheer randomness of coincidence.
An illustration, I feel, of the sheer randomness of life: those countless stories of people having lucky escapes — or the opposite.
This is largely because scientific research will always be shadowed by a force that can't be curbed, only contained: sheer randomness.
Johnson, on the other hand, was obsessed by truth: what was needed was a form that would convey the mind's sheer randomness.
It was a sorry sight of sheer randomness and looking at the list of strange cocktails, bits of pizza and odd combinations of foods (a chronic case of whatever-is-in-the-fridge syndrome) was almost depressing.
There's lots right – the accrual of character detail, the child's terror of adult recrimination, the sheer randomness of it – about the routine in which Davies incurs dad's wrath by spending a then-extortionate 85p on a tennis ball.
