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Violent, unpredictable, and difficult to navigate.
they're difficult to navigate and flood unpredictably and violently. Violent, unpredictable,
Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has led us to see that dictatorships are inherently unpredictable.
has led us to see that dictatorships are inherently unpredictable.
We just don't know enough yet about the complex interplay of our genes to avoid unpredictable consequences.
unpredictable consequences. Working on accuracy and monitoring methods is a
They're not unpredictable.
What's odd then is just how unpredictable the allocation of esteem often turns out to be.
What's odd, then, is just how unpredictable the allocation of esteem often turns out to be.
Fires are unpredictable, but your survival doesn't have to be.
Perhaps you enjoy making plans and thinking ahead, because you don't do well in disorderly or unpredictable situations.
Perhaps you enjoy making plans and thinking ahead because you don't do well in disorderly or unpredictable situations.
Or perhaps our parental figure was constantly at the office or unavailable behind a locked study door. They might have had a violent, unpredictable temper or left us somehow feeling that we were just never good enough for them. As a result, to an extent we may not even have realised, we became experts at independence. We came to associate safety with a high degree of self-protective isolation. We might have become big readers or fascinated by the animal world or obsessed with music or computer games. Without quite knowing we had done so, we learnt never to trust a flesh-and-blood, three-dimensional human again. Our experiences may not have affected the strength of our longing for love, but they have heavily impacted our capacity to endure mutually satisfying relationships. We may now, as adults, tell ourselves that we want closeness and surrender. We will sob sincerely when we lose love, but we are continually taking steps to ensure we will never be at any sustained risk of finding it. The true terror for us is not that love should fail, but that it should, by some oversight on our part, succeed. For this would ask of us a level of defencelessness and exposure to another person and to a chance of happiness that has no precedent in our lives and poses immense, ego-shattering challenges to the armoured way our personalities have been structured.
They might have had a violent, unpredictable temper or left us somehow feeling that we were just never good enough for them.
While the Arab Spring revealed how fast a revolution fueled by technology could unfold, it also once again proved how complicated and unpredictable revolutions can be.
While the Arab Spring revealed how fast a revolution fueled by technology could unfold, it also once again proved how complicated and unpredictable revolutions can be.
The weather on the mountain seems to be pretty unpredictable.
The weather on the mountain seems to be pretty unpredictable.