Perhaps all of this is unconnected, I write with an eyebrow raised.
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With Elly always in the water, Fred becomes hostage to a lifeless pub, ostensibly writing his novel but in reality scribbling bits of unconnected musings, a kind of madman's commonplace book.
But even before these tales took shape, many of their characters and scenes appeared in various unconnected poems that Tolkien wrote before and during the war.
It would be wrong to think of Virgil as writing political propaganda; but equally it would be wrong to regard his poetry as unconnected with the major currents of political and social needs of the time.
Justice Scalia, writing for the majority, determined that, "The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia".
"We are looking for individuals who are engaged in the process of making or finding something new, or in connecting the seemingly unconnected in significant ways," Conrad wrote in the Washington Post.
Reavis, an independent producer who was apparently unconnected to the homophile movement, wrote up his idea for The Rejected in 1960.
Some very good writing unconnected to the march of history has been left out.
The final coup de grace comes with the throwing of a random spanner into the works: a moment when all is reduced to chaos, as Frayn writes, by "a completely unconnected and irrelevant event … a velleity that comes out of nowhere and has no imaginable significance or place in any self-respecting causal chain".
Benghazi, as I've written before, was not some unconnected pioneer outpost; the circumstances there were defined by a larger policy that was flawed in ways that have nothing to do with Fox News hysteria, and everything to do with issues like the use of military force (and her reputation, within the Obama Administration, as a hawk) and the need to consult Congress.
