A departing Serena herself raised expectations.
He believed that "Hannah gives so much to other people that at a certain point there is literally nothing left, and she departs from herself".
As she departed, Teffi told herself she'd be back soon; in fact, she would never return to Russia.
His conviction that Thatcherism would define the politically possible, long after Thatcher herself had departed, proved enormously prescient, providing a key to understanding the politics not only of New Labour, but also of the subsequent coalition.
Jiayu refuses to let the dead become "generally and generically dead," and her only way to fight that, for her son as well as for all the other people who have departed, is to immerse herself in that haystack of memory.
There is no more potent symbol of fashion's new centre of gravity than the recent career trajectory of Phelan herself, who departed the rarefied post of Vogue fashion editor for Topshop, thus swapping access to the Chanel haute couture salons for the power to influence the wardrobes of millions of British women.
The fact that a voyage to Greece was associated with great danger is testified by the fact that a woman had a runestone made in memory of herself before she departed on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem: "Ingirún Harðardóttir had runes graven for herself; she would go East and out to Jerusalem.
The new campaign was part of an effort by the departing president, Michelle Bachelet, herself a torture victim of the military regime, to revamp a DNA-matching program that previously had misidentified remains.
In short order, he also fell in love with Gellhorn, a beautiful and well-connected younger journalist who sailed into his marooned life on Key West just before she was scheduled to depart for Spain herself, on assignment for Collier's.
That clock is ticking, ya know," the sage says before departing, happy with herself for imparting such erudite wisdom.
