"My guess is they watch reality television shows about humans who
come unglued at the presence of wasps."
It's no fun to watch Claire
come unglued like this.
Many of the major deals that have
come unglued involved bankers, investment bankers, auditors, equity investors, lessees, vendors, lawyers for the lessee, lawyers for the lessor, the banks and so on.
When her maternal grandmother shows up unannounced from Portugal with an inheritance and the momentous news Norah's mother is alive and living in Switzerland, the teenager's precisely organized life begins to
come unglued and builds toward the inevitable voyage of discovery that will lead to the next phase in her life.
A page in the Sing-along Song Barney book had
come unglued, revealing a writhing nude woman beneath.
But move up close again and that ideality begins to clot, crack, fray, buckle and
come unglued. The realization arises not only that the optical and all else is built upon the brutely tactile, but also that the very movement to and fro before the surfaces of abstraction, whether to take pleasure in them, to write their history or to deconstruct them, whether to constitute or take apart their transcendent illusions, is the movement of the body, and so necessarily involves the demands, desires, and drives of the bodily, and its sexing as well - precisely that which abstraction, or rather the theory and criticism of abstraction, had sought to expunge.
Sooner or later, water's many acts of adhesive vandalism cause synthetically bonded surfaces to
come unglued, usually with the help of mechanical stresses.