“Answers to such questions vary with contemporary conditions as well as the unknowable and largely unpredictable future.”

“The sea plays a strong role in our national psyche, as does our relationship with the unpredictable weather that governs it.”

“However, the absence of a credible political theology or political theodicy has been undermined by his unpredictable response to the policies that are necessary to bring the situation under control.”

“If we can look back and say one unpredicted side-effect of television was that it created a culture of voyeurs, then future generations may cast an eye to the Internet and say it unwittingly turned us all into rude, rotten bastards.”