Rejecting the language of a mass America lost to "gray emptiness, bled out in congealing dollars and the victim of its own static habits", he sought value in "the intimate, familiar, localising, detailing, speculative, emotional, unending talking that has given my life a way of thinking of itself in the very fact and feeling of existence.
But we should be on our guard: It must be an opening to clarify what is possible and to test outcomes, not to engage in unending talks for their own sake.
If you were truly willing to tell it like it is, you would be talking about the deep, unending worth that is found in every human life.
He used it last year when describing the Jets' unending treks to Oakland; he said it again in talking about the opening preseason game in Tokyo; he made a speech to his team about "inconvenience" on Monday after the news of Pennington's injury sunk in.
And Breitbart's Ben Shapiro, in a piece titled "#War More Years," talked of "unending bailouts, of free giveaways, of government-provided goods and services".
"By the end of the year," he said, "talking to machines in a normal voice will not seem unusual, nor the cause of unending frustration".
The nerdy little squirrel Scrat, whose unending quest for an acorn always provides a silent-comedy parallel plot – and who is now the least insufferable thing about these films – finds himself accidentally whooshed away into space in an alien ship, and he triggers a meteor shower that may wipe out all the comedy talking animals on Earth.
Meanwhile, there is UNENDING whining and complaining re: not enough women as tech speakers, tech VCs, tech founders, tech board members, etc — but hardly anyone talking about getting more women to be investors who can create their own solutions.
But I am talking about a barrage, similar to that of the list of endless Last Five Minutes of Fame actresses who have stormed the runways and literally scared the bejesus out of me with their unending "talent" for saying, "Oh, that's pretty".
On this week's Political Scene podcast, Ryan Lizza and Hendrik Hertzberg join Dorothy Wickenden to talk about the unending battle of the budget.
Continue to talk about your unending skill in whatever activity you are currently engaged in.
