1.   And now there is simply the carved tablet, the eternal present that the solitary life ensures.

2.   In effect, he remains condemned to an eternal present excavated by continual forgetting.

3.   Technology is a kind of universal solvent, washing away memory and masking the past as it encourages its beneficiaries to enter an eternal present.

4.   The thwarted outcome, preserved in an eternal present, exists robustly in the imagination of those who live and die by the vicissitudes of the game.

5.   This Hawksian duel within an eternal cinematic present is just one of the many ways he has given his name to some of the crowing glories of old Hollywood.