The families of Parle’s alleged victims have refused to speak to Mr Bleksley and Merseyside Police have declined to assist with his investigation.

Lucinda Childs is a pioneering force in dance, whose simple yet intricate choreography became one of the dominant modes of dance for the last couple of decades, and someone who just last year was awarded the American Dance Festival’s prize for lifetime achievement.

In fact, they never even believed that he would be even nominated.

John Adams has won five Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and for two decades has been widely regarded as one of the greatest living composers of classical music.

Former detective Peter Bleksley is setting out to find Kevin Parle, who has been on the run for 14 years, wanted for two separate murders.

Please explain “ego trip”, as in this passage:

In a series of phone interviews over the course of the last several weeks, Gehry, Adams and Childs all have different memories of how the piece first came together, how they became aware of each other’s work in the days before they were megawatt artistic celebrities, before the prizes and the awards. (Full disclosure: Gehry is also the architect who designed the New York City headquarters of IAC, parent company of The Daily Beast.)

All right, here are more examples of ego trip culled from recent media:

Because, duh.

Mr Bleksley said: “Quite frankly, I am on a journey and I don't exactly know where it’s going to take me.