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“We didn’t want to shoehorn the songs into the story,” he said, nodding in appreciation at Read.

Probably — even if it did seem oddly shoehorned in the middle of the show.

"There have been long-held fears that this latest supposedly showpiece tournament, shoehorned into an already over-crowded calendar after a gruelling season, would struggle to capture the public imagination," he said.

What Elon Musk Thought has in common with earlier techno-futurist disasters is the attempt to shoehorn that messiness and complexity into a more “efficient” monoculture to achieve his utopian vision.

“Warfare” wants to live in the dictionary shoehorned between war cry and war hawk.