The Trump administration has escalated pressure on North Korea by slapping sanctions on scores of companies and ships accused of illicit trading with the pariah nation.
These vignettes shift from the present-Eva living as a social pariah, a husk of her former self-to the past, and are jumbled with the non-chronology of memory.
Mr Hammond has been (successfully) trying to restore fiscal probity to the Ministry of Defence, long a pariah in Whitehall for its casual approach to the military equipment budget.
At the very moment banks are striving to rebrand themselves as tech firms, internet giants have become the new banks, morphing from talent magnets to pariahs. Even their employees are in revolt.