Running away, Moses lives on the gritty streets of the port town Pointe-Noire, a recurring setting for Mabanckou's novels.
Shady Hill, the commuter town that was a recurring setting in Mr. Cheever's work, was rife with sad and disaffected characters.
The city is a recurring setting in the 007 novels and much of the backdrop to Moonraker (the 3rd in the 007 series), which I re-read in preparation for my tour.
During a wholesome-sounding tune called "Glass Jaw," the band tumbled through a recurring set of key modulations, set over a fluttering rock groove.
But he played them at high intensity, sometimes recalling John Coltrane (in "Hymn to the Mother," a recurring set of intervals evoked "Chasin' the Trane"), using overtones and keening, babbling phrases.
Along the same lines, the sociologist Nathalie E. Paton has analyzed the online videos created by post-Columbine shooters and found a recurring set of stylized images: a moment where the killer points his gun at the camera, then at his own temple, and then spreads his arms wide with a gun in each hand; the closeup; the wave goodbye at the end.
A recurring set of textual strategies in these accounts rehearsed a particular bodily subjectivity towards landscape, while at the same time incorporating the new nation's physiographic regions into a historically and geographically-legible whole.
(If Lamar can make this a recurring set piece, we can reclaim the couch stomp from Tom Cruise).
However, while characters are in a constant state of flux; constantly changing names, occupations, and physical attributes; a recurring set of core characters, or character types (what Norris dubs "ciphers"), are discernible.
Dr. Chris Harvey, director of operations at Barnardo's, for example, said, "Victoria's tragic case is the latest in a sad roll-call of child deaths, each leading to fresh inquiries and a new but recurring set of recommendations".
One recurring set of objections relates to a recent study reporting the effects on moral decision-making of the selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor Citalopram, a pill that already exists, and indeed is already widely used as an antidepressant.
