And in its place there was an empty series of positioning exercises as ministers prepared for a looming leadership election and the party drifted back to its ideological comfort zone.
Here, the hero's preexisting and unchanging character (stoical, wise, fearless) determines the outcome in advance, while time is reduced to an empty series of relatively independent happenings that the hero merely happens to pass through (Bakhtin, 1981; see also Holquist, 1990, pp. 109 110).
It's a Sunday morning at the Alice Springs correctional centre and visitors trail through an empty yard and a series of heavy metal doors.
Here, as in a tender trio for Dendy, Donovan, and Hardy in the hospital, their bodies spooning and rocking, the back wall is filled with simple, beautiful black-and-white videos by Donovan — of Dendy, filmed from above, in an empty stairwell; of a series of decaying rooms, the camera gliding through their rounded doors.
Millionaire nephew of Dustin Hoffman and ex-beau of Alexa Chung, Nimrod Frederic-Kåmer, arrived at the Cannes film festival last week with an empty heart and a series of blank cheques.
Then things get really interesting: She takes them to an empty parking lot and accelerates into a series of spinouts.
A teaser trailer for series two has dropped online, showing an empty playground with an empty swing swinging eerily.
One drawing; 37 paintings, each presenting nothing more than a date from 1966 to the near present; two groups of books, 10 volumes each in a pair of vitrines facing each other across an otherwise empty room; a series of tables displaying numerous old telegrams under glass.
A series of accurate experiments on forced vibrations of an empty and water-filled stainless-steel shell have been performed.
Behind the vessel, a speedboat, a series of empty plastic oil jugs — blue, green, yellow, black — bobbed in the water.
Behind the vessel, a speedboat, a series of empty plastic oil jugs blue, green, yellow, black bobbed in the water.
