The most basic lesson of "Mythologies" is that everything means something, especially things that try to seem beyond meaning.
The result had begun to seem beyond doubt as judge Theodor Meron analysed the failings of his colleagues in The Hague tribunal's trial chamber - but there was still drama and tension.
Everyone with whom we are encouraged to sympathise seems beyond reproach.
That the second home market is wedded to Wall Street seems beyond question.
Government officials in London and Belfast would love to change that, but it seems beyond their capacity to challenge the forces that keep most streets "pure".
At times, his impulse to break into narrative seems beyond his control; homilies and anecdotes come tumbling out of him.
Yet when he pulls it all together, it becomes possible to apprehend something that also seems beyond comprehension.
Now he seems beyond fear.
To me, it seemed beyond malicious.
So many issues that we have to deal with seem beyond our control: natural disasters, child predators, traffic jams.
