On the mound, facing hitters, Cone was the epitome of magis, a restlessly intelligent warrior, willing to make sudden, surprising choices, convinced that failure was surely a sin but that the worst sin of all was doubt and absolutely driven by the demands of excellence.
"When you look north, you see the tridente [three streets set between two 17th-century baroque churches] offering you this sudden and thrilling choice of direction.
You can speculate why DARPA all of a sudden wants greater choice when it comes to issuing smartphones, but that would be a waste of time.
The Checkers episode is most often revisited from a poli-sci perspective, as a demonstration of TV's sudden political significance; an alternative choice for television's watershed moment is, of course, the debates that Nixon went on to have with John F. Kennedy in 1960.
"All of a sudden, they have a choice," Mr. Thenell said of his employees, who were coached by Myhealthbank's staff on how to use its site and enroll for benefits.
At a time of such extreme upheaval and sudden decision making, obvious choices are very appealing.
It may very well be true that Dynegy's board and management felt they had no choice, but the sudden announcement and savvy deal-making of Blackstone raised suspicions.
Since the mid-1990's the quickest way up the pop charts has been to join a brand-name hip-hop crew and to rap about sudden wealth, sudden death, brutal choices and sexual conquests.
"These are people who have been socialized for fifty years into a completely totalitarian culture, and all of a sudden they have to make choices about their lives and have no clue how to do it.
