1.   Criticism in this space during an inexorable slide this season has always been delivered with a heavy heart.

2.   By mid-September, the upper atmosphere will also begin to cool, accelerating the inexorable slide.

3.   Even once surface water begins to cool, it sinks and warmer water from the depths rises to replace it, thus slowing the inexorable slide into winter chill.

4.   The inexorable slide toward winter has begun.

5.   Kemp went on vacation, and returned to find the local currency on an inexorable slide into a netherworld of worthlessness.