A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.

Still, he believed deeply in the sixty-three-year-old goateed vegetarian and knew that with the program of careful diet, bodybuilding, swimming, and running up eight-story sand dunes, he would not be where he was now.

[T]he Navy Seals drew fire from only one al-Qaida gunman and quickly killed him.

The idea is that the combinational machine will act as a one-shot device such that, when the signal turns on, the machine will immediately turn it off again. This practice should be avoided: It is prone to ambiguous interpretation, and if the one-shot action is needed, it can be provided unambiguously by a sequential machine.