But what really unifies these shows is how strongly their satisfactions echo those of legal procedurals.
Lives and property are put in danger in exchange for the satisfactions of bean-counting and moralistic coercion.
But his current position provides prestige and the ability to influence, the satisfactions of teaching and discourse with colleagues.
"When you are a competitive entity like we were, it's one of the great satisfactions in life, " he said.
And in the last decade, psychologists and economists have discovered that people make systematic errors when predicting their future satisfactions.
Relationships with other human beings will increasingly become too troublesome and unrewarding compared with the more immediate satisfactions to be had from the ever-present networked screens.
The claustrophobic pressure to derive all of our satisfactions from our existing relationships would ease, as would our desire to climb ever higher in social status.
Successfully starting a business, no matter how small, is an act of creating something out of nothing that carries satisfactions far beyond those of the money it brings in.
After a short meeting at the Foreign Office, the Cuban diplomat said: "This incident is being examined by both our foreign offices and we are confident that it will be resolved to both our satisfactions".
And now a lot of those hobbyists appear to be giving it up, or at least cutting back, in favor of less demanding hobbies that offer some of the same satisfactions: microblogging and social networking.
You end up thinking of comedy as Hemingway thought of narrative: structured like an iceberg, with all the greater satisfactions fathoms under water, while the surface pleasure of the joke is somehow the least of it.
The clearest demonstration that he deserves his status as one of music's immortals is his enduring popularity with audiences, who recognise him as both a supreme melodist and a master who can deliver the convincing satisfactions of coherence.
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