In the DVD commentary for the episode, he said "I love the idea of, 'All you need is for the power to go out and slowly the fabric of society unravels."

Mr. Clinton has been worried that if the summit tries and fails, the whole fabric of Arab-Israeli peacemaking could unravel.

"If any thread is pulled out now, the entire fabric could easily unravel," the Sierra Club told the court.

A whisper of archness, on one hand, or polemical earnestness, on the other, and the fine fabric of "Far Away" could unravel.

The fabric of the Sleepy Wrap, a French Terry knit, does not unravel or fray when cut or torn.

The light inside Cairo dimmed as the dust clouds obscured the sun, and the tent's polarization created short rainbows and sundogs, as if the very fabric of the world were unravelling into kaleidoscopic parts.

The whole protective fabric could unravel.

Without us, without space travel, the fabric of the Imperium would unravel.

The trouble, however, is that once the Indonesians start picking at the threads of economic corruption and political cronyism, the whole fabric of their national life could unravel.

But something about the My Tram Experience video caught the public mood - a sense that our national fabric was unravelling - and more than 11 million people watched the clip online.