Here, movie love is mandatory, not magical, and Lanthimos shows us the arbitrary reasons people convince themselves they belong together, and the tiny compromises that come next.
They didn't seem to realize how easy it was for a good person (and he believed that almost everyone started out good; Mormons don't believe in original sin) to make one tiny, unimportant compromise after another, until he was too compromised to find an honest way back.
These are important considerations because taking fresh tissue for gene expression analysis from a tiny tumour can compromise histopathology reporting.
And while Lenovo had to make a tiny bit of a compromise to build a keyboard into such a thin machine, it's still great by laptop standards.
It is a question of the allowed situational ethic, the small compromise, the tiny movement off the course which comes to dominate and overwhelm.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, it was the Republicans who looked more incompetent and immature, as Boehner fought to subdue the obstructionists in his ranks, purists who won't brook even the most picayune compromise, let alone the tiniest tax increase.
But it would be useless against the deadly Ebola virus if compromised by even a tiny slip of the needle.
One of the tiny handful of senators who voted against the compromise.
But doctors say recovery is often a compromise, with patients and doctors accepting tiny slices of success.
Microprocessor-controlled electronic pipettors, commercially available with minimum capacity of 10 μL, represent a compromise solution between oversized peristaltic pumps and tiny "on a chip" micropumps and valves.
Behind those failures lies an environmental management system in which every decision is still made by a tiny number of officials, developers and experts who make compromises at the expense of the environment and local communities.
