No innovation, however, lasts forever; progress demands change.
What better metaphor, then, for New York City, a metropolis forever chasing progress and perfection but perhaps best at making do with the reality of considerably less?
The bridge game forever in progress in the second-floor commons room of my dorm was equivalent to the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York.
So we carry the unwritten note with us, a work forever in progress, to keep the family close in our thoughts, easy to impress and even dazzle — how nice of him to write! — as we take the time necessary to let things settle, adjust to the loss in our own small and selfish way.
Nevertheless "history would progress forever, and Hamlet's failure contained the seeds of victory" (Bian, 1957, 112).
With no strong leader, the Democrats could be out of power forever and no progress will be made on genetic research.
In a well-observed set-piece, we see the magician, who has had a bit too much whisky, trying to step over the diminutive landlord of his hotel, who is forever impeding his progress on the stairs.
By 1906 he had come to view the mandarin bureaucracy and the Vietnamese monarchy as symbols of a backwardness that would forever prevent technological progress and the development of an autonomous state.
These range from designer drinking water and submarine transportation to economic globalization and the 24-hour news cycle, the latter epitomized by a journal published on a roll of paper that snakes unendingly through the streets: "It was relentless in its progress, forever bearing away over roof and wall the article you had not managed to finish".
The concept of a united family that lives and progresses forever is at the core of Latter-day Saint doctrine, and Mormons place a high importance on family life.
