Forget the plot twists and ponderous use of Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" as a recurrent anthem.
Romi, the deliveryman, added comedic touches to his account, using the phrase "be patient" as a recurrent punch line.
Leblanc used as a recurrent element the suspicion that Lupin may not have reformed completely.
For those reasons, as a recurrent cancer patient, I'm all for the demilitarization of cancer talk.
To employ another "old-fashioned, almost Marxist" notion, one might call this not so much a new paradox as a recurrent contradiction of capitalism.
Just about every conversation I have here points up this dichotomy: between the transgressions of companies and corporations on one hand, and individual frailties and failures on the other – with simple want as a recurrent backdrop.
"Nata vintage" — meaning, roughly, born vintage — "stems from a reflection on the eternal return of the 'old' as a recurrent tendency of the market," Marco Popolo, one of the object's designers, explained by e-mail.
It is a cycle seemingly without meaning or end, one of many that confirms the wheel as the central image of McGahern's work: the identification of life as a recurrent pattern.
Gerard Mortier's Ruhr Triennale festival last summer in Germany had angels as a recurrent theme, topped by the American video artist Bill Viola's amazing installation in a gigantic decommissioned natural-gas tank called "Five Angels for the Millennium".
It also encountered what is emerging as a recurrent aspect of the violence in Ivory Coast: the use of mercenaries from Liberia, believed to have been recruited by both sides in the conflict.
Post-traumatic epilepsy is defined as a recurrent seizure disorder due to traumatic brain injury.
