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The inexorable constant in this movie is the chase scenes. Car delivery driver Kowalski (Barry Newman) arrives in Denver, Colorado on a late Friday night with a black Imperial. The delivery service clerk Sandy (Karl Swenson) urges him to get some rest, but Kowalski insists on getting started with his next assignment to deliver a white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T 440 Magnum (supposedly supercharged) to San Francisco by Monday. Before leaving Denver, Kowalski pulls into a biker bar parking lot around midnight to buy Benzedrine pills to stay awake for the long drive ahead. He bets his dealer Jake (Lee Weaver) that he will get to San Francisco by 3:00 pm the next day, even though the delivery is not due until Monday.
Word of the Day : April 23, 2019
inexorable
adjective i-NEK-suh-ruh-bul
Definition :
: not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless.
Did You Know ?
The Latin antecedent of inexorable is inexorabilis, which is itself a combination of the prefix in-, meaning "not," plus exorabilis, meaning "pliant" or "capable of being moved by entreaty." It's a fitting etymology for inexorable. You can beseech and implore until you're blue in the face, but that won't have any effect on something that's inexorable. Inexorable has been a part of the English language since the 1500s. Originally, it was often applied to people or sometimes to personified things, as in "deaf and inexorable laws." These days, it is usually applied to things, as in "inexorable monotony" or "an inexorable trend." In such cases, it essentially means "unyielding" or "inflexible."
Examples :
"The question is, what is Nashville anymore, if not gritty joints that nurtured musicians and songwriters? Yes, change is the inexorable constant, but at such an accelerated pace, we are seeing the fabric of Nashville culture being ripped away and replaced with the glitz not of rhinestones, but of klieg lights and slick outsiders spoiling for a deal." — Jim Myers, The Nashville Ledger, 1 Mar. 2019.
"As the cost of public school leadership continues its inexorable rise, so do the taxpayer-funded pensions received by educators when they retire." — David McKay Wilson, lohud.com, 7 Mar. 2019.
Word of the Day : April 23, 2019
inexorable
adjective i-NEK-suh-ruh-bul
Definition :
: not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless.
Did You Know ?
The Latin antecedent of inexorable is inexorabilis, which is itself a combination of the prefix in-, meaning "not," plus exorabilis, meaning "pliant" or "capable of being moved by entreaty." It's a fitting etymology for inexorable. You can beseech and implore until you're blue in the face, but that won't have any effect on something that's inexorable. Inexorable has been a part of the English language since the 1500s. Originally, it was often applied to people or sometimes to personified things, as in "deaf and inexorable laws." These days, it is usually applied to things, as in "inexorable monotony" or "an inexorable trend." In such cases, it essentially means "unyielding" or "inflexible."
Examples :
"The question is, what is Nashville anymore, if not gritty joints that nurtured musicians and songwriters? Yes, change is the inexorable constant, but at such an accelerated pace, we are seeing the fabric of Nashville culture being ripped away and replaced with the glitz not of rhinestones, but of klieg lights and slick outsiders spoiling for a deal." — Jim Myers, The Nashville Ledger, 1 Mar. 2019.
"As the cost of public school leadership continues its inexorable rise, so do the taxpayer-funded pensions received by educators when they retire." — David McKay Wilson, lohud.com, 7 Mar. 2019.
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Artist : Steel Raiser (Italy). Genre : Heavy/Power Metal. Album : Unstoppable (June 26th, 2015). Their Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/SteelRaiserOfficia...
Thank you, my friend SGT John " Mac " McConnell for sharing the word of the day for April 23, 2019 namely the adjective inexorable which seems like a word former VPOTUS Spiro Agnew might have used in conjunction with nattering nabobs of negativism :-)
Igor the Ignorant intended to irritate ignoble itinerants in Illinois, Indiana and Idaho and yet he was foiled by Ichabod Crane the Inexorable :-)
This song is relentless or more likely inexorable as it is named :-)
Steel Raiser - Inexorable
Artist : Steel Raiser (Italy).
Genre : Heavy/Power Metal.
Album : Unstoppable (June 26th, 2015).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H7o82rgzgo
FYI LTC Orlando Illi Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price CPT Jack Durish Capt Tom Brown CMSgt (Join to see) MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SGT (Join to see) Sgt Albert Castro SSgt Boyd Herrst] SSG Ray Adkins SGT Charles H. Hawes SSG Martin Byrne PO1 William "Chip" Nagel CPT Gabe SnellLTC Greg Henning
Igor the Ignorant intended to irritate ignoble itinerants in Illinois, Indiana and Idaho and yet he was foiled by Ichabod Crane the Inexorable :-)
This song is relentless or more likely inexorable as it is named :-)
Steel Raiser - Inexorable
Artist : Steel Raiser (Italy).
Genre : Heavy/Power Metal.
Album : Unstoppable (June 26th, 2015).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H7o82rgzgo
FYI LTC Orlando Illi Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price CPT Jack Durish Capt Tom Brown CMSgt (Join to see) MSG Andrew White SFC William Farrell SGT (Join to see) Sgt Albert Castro SSgt Boyd Herrst] SSG Ray Adkins SGT Charles H. Hawes SSG Martin Byrne PO1 William "Chip" Nagel CPT Gabe SnellLTC Greg Henning
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell
That is one wild tune LTC Stephen F. . Not bad though ! Thanks for sharing my friend.
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In the movie, Hang em High, Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) has an inexorable pursuit of the men who wrongly hanged him.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
Yeah, once in awhile, generally, in fact, he has that necessary film personality to achieve that, I've observed....though my all time favorite is Kelly's Heroes, of all his flicks....
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The left seems to think that climate change is reversible. I believe it is inexorable but not in one direction; it has swung back and forth like a pendulum long before man had an impact upon it.
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Capt Daniel Goodman
Ya know, it's funny you say that, when I finally learned the physics of a pendulum, I was actually quite astonished at the complexity needed to even remotely describe it accurately, and not using approximations, which every first year college science student supposed correct, but which actually turn out to be completely wrong as well as grossly oversimplified...belief doesn't enter science, belief to my mind is a purely metaphysical term totally inconsistent with science, at least to my mind, I deliberately speak of being either convinced or unconvinced, only...climate change happens for reasons of pure nonlinear dynamic chaos theory, it's quite real, I've studied under experts who've studied it, and taken considerable grad coursework on upper atmospheric chemistry needed to even remotely understand it's processes, I've also read extensively on mesoscale as well as synoptic meteorology, as well as numerical techniques used in atmospheric modeling, I've worked with and under some of the very best in the world on such ttopjcs, I assure you, most haven't, which is why explaining climatic change coherently to most tends to be quite impossible, I'm afrajd, I wish the topic weren't that involved, however, I can most definitely assure you it is, honest, just some thoughts I figured might interest, mixed with some of my own painstakingly garnered scientific perspective accumulated along the way....
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