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In water, Dean had found an apt metaphor for film — for its continual but spasmodic movement, its translucence, and its ability to capture light.

The piece is built around a continual but unobtrusive drawing in and pulling away from a magnetic center in richly layered patterning, with the dancers moving as if impelled by sudden breathlike bursts of energy.

Variations in this tradition of interpretation occur for two primary reasons, namely the unfolding of world events and continual but gradual revelation from Jehovah (8).

The first uncertainty is illustrated by the continual but so far failed attempts to classify PDZ domains in accord with their specificities (see the examples of at least five different classifications in Refs. [8], [9], [13]-[15]).

Such continual but transient migration to peripheral sites may represent an adaptation that facilitates uptake by haematophagous triatomine vectors.

The possibility for continual but undetectable or unnoticed effects on aquatic organisms is particularly worrisome because effects could accumulate so slowly that major change goes undetected until the cumulative level of these effects finally cascades to irreversible change--change that would otherwise be attributed to natural adaptation or ecologic succession.

The only really good way — so far — that anyone has been able to manage the challenge of imparting all that kinetic energy to a payload is by putting those payloads on very large, very lightweight structures filled with incredibly explosive fuel, and then burning that fuel very, very quickly in what amounts to a continual almost-but-not-quite-catastrophic explosion.

He believed in continual reform, but reform is not novelty.

Associated vegetation and soil forms also show continual variety, but only portions of the dominant woodland that clothed most of the continent when humans first appeared now remain.

Originally presidents were eligible for continual reelection, but the Twenty-second Amendment (1951) later prohibited any person from being elected president more than twice.

Many people readily recognize that they face — or invite — continual interruption, but the emerging data on the scale of the problem may come as a surprise.