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Smith pursued the case as he would have any other, and that led ineluctably to today’s indictment.

In Greek theater, the “agon” describes the tension between the protagonist and the antagonist which, never reconciled, leads ineluctably to tragedy.

Words like warmth, refinement, elegance attached themselves almost ineluctably to his playing, which, at its best, had insight, sterling technique and an almost magically beautiful touch.

“She becomes part of the family, ineluctably, though she is never, really, because she can be fired,” Tillman writes.

Whether he will escape the fate of his parents — and the general forces that bear down so ineluctably on what Wozzeck calls “we poor people” — is left unclear.