But Eakins seems as interesting for being uneven and unpredictable in his commitment to unvarnished reality.
These include the on-call commitment, unpredictable workload and a lack of exposure to the speciality, at an early stage in training.
Power demand varies over the day, with predictable and unpredictable components, so unit commitment must be performed repeatedly to find the best variable generation mix over the course of the day.
"Chair commitments are rather unpredictable and tend to migrate into days that should be clinical and expectation is to attend meetings at very short notice which is not compatible with good patient care as it can require cancelling surgeries," said Dr Tattersfield.
A four-year commitment to an unpredictable outcome may seem irrational, but the watch, scheduled for completion by the end of 2013, will be one of the fastest ever developed at Greubel Forsey.
A more rigorous way of looking at it is to see the 'miracle' as an opportunity for us to make an unreasonable commitment to an unpredictable result.
Both discoveries help us see afresh this classic figure, who seems as interesting for being uneven and unpredictable as he is for his familiar commitment to unvarnished reality.
Such unpredictable and fragile transitions appeared to communicate commitment to, responsibility for and preservation of the woman and the family.
A legally binding commitment predicated on something as wildly unpredictable as economic performance – "in normal times" forsooth; when are times ever normal?
My working life is varied and unpredictable, and I need to be able to adapt my commitments at Birkbeck to fit in with the rest of an extremely busy schedule.
