The plot of "The Sleeping Beauty" keeps unfolding steadily and holds one's attention.
This unfortunate shift away from a long period of more widely shared prosperity unfolded steadily, year after year since the late-'70s, whether Democrats or Republicans controlled the levers of power in Washington.
Among the first notable examples of a work unfolding steadily backwards is George S Kaufman and Moss Hart's play, Merrily We Roll Along, briefly performed on Broadway in 1934 and rarely revived, though in 1981 Stephen Sondheim made an updated musical version.
Whereas the Jackson scandal came and went in the span of three days, the Pruitt saga has been unfolding steadily for more than a month, in a cascade of damaging headlines about the administrator's ethical blunders, security regimen and reliance on taxpayer money and government perks to support his lifestyle.
More recent ones, like "Futurelina," unfold more steadily, moving closer to dance music — though they wouldn't be mistaken for standard club fare — and to the perpetual-motion avant-pop of Animal Collective.
In the ensuing years, the technology ecosystem enabling the new ad medium would steadily unfold, while digital devices proliferated and network connectivity became ubiquitous.
To acclaim the urban thrillers of George P. Pelecanos as literary would be to falsify the very things that make them entertaining: exciting plots that unfold at a steadily accelerating pace; sharp, often funny dialogue; offhand references to movies and, especially, to music that reveal a writer attuned to pop culture.
For some, like Macaulay and Trevelyan, history is a steadily unfolding narrative with a pleasing aesthetic shape.
In religious terms, however, the piece steadily unfolds the familiar tapestry of ancient suffering at the heart of Christian identity.
One of the important economic issues that will likely have a significant impact on the economy and policy, is the fall in house prices that is steadily unfolding.
What could they have known of the horror that was steadily unfolding in a Germany that was now in the hands of one of the most nefarious regimes in world history?
