So it was rather a surprise when, on February 9th, DreamWorks abruptly found itself in the promised land.
Koolhaas abruptly found himself in a highly disorienting position — that of a European child in a Jakarta public school.
By November of 2013 – just as brand Beckham was hitching up with Las Vegas Sands – Charles Heung abruptly found himself unwelcome in Adelson's casinos.
Then, last December, Mrs Lincoln abruptly found herself in a tight spot, wavering so chronically over health reform that liberals decried her lack of guts, conservatives marked her as vulnerable and independents searched for an alternative.
A similar encounter occurred a few months later, she said, when Timothy was walking to a corner grocery store and abruptly found himself nose to the pavement, along with five or six other young men.
A century and a half later, their great-great-granddaughter, Bliss Broyard, who had been raised as white, abruptly found herself confronting the implications of her newly discovered black identity.
Yet, thanks to a simple and intricate twist of fate, she abruptly found herself in a rare position to throw a roadblock in the way of the political march to war from Washington and London.
In short, Fox News and the Democrats abruptly find each other useful.
If the project is successful, India would abruptly find itself at the forefront of citizen-identification technology, outperforming Social Security and other non-biometric, and not fully randomized, systems.
But the emperor's new outfit has a few holes.Screenwriters often employ a plot device called a reversal, in which a hero who seems to be making progress abruptly finds himself worse off, and facing a much greater menace.
