These days, the drift of One World Trade's lit windows has a similar effect.
McFaul calls for the U.S. to end a "drift of disengagement" from world affairs and to "lead the free world in a new struggle".
Not every character and motivation rings perfectly true (Laurie's conversion to the Guilty Remnant is especially troubling, since she is one of the fortunate Mapletonians not to have lost a family member), but the slow, sad drift of this suburban world into various forms of cultic extremism as a response to upheaval feels spot on.
He recalled that when he was Ambassador and challenged his Russian interlocutors on issues of international law and a commitment to sovereignty, he was met with "What about Iraq?" And, in a subtle jab at Obama, he wrote, "We are enduring a drift of disengagement in world affairs.
Facebook, the popular networking site, has 350 million members worldwide who, collectively, spend 10 billion minutes there every day, checking in with friends, writing on people's electronic walls, clicking through photos and generally keeping pace with the drift of their social world.
Vladimir Putin has sensibly tried to counter Russia's drift to the margins of world affairs by presenting himself as a more of a pragmatist to do business with.
Inside the main cinema at the Venice film festival the screen hosts a languid drift of evening shadows and world-weary bison.
Liliane, born in Paris to German parents slightly before the outbreak of World War II, drifts around the Western hemisphere with her mother throughout the atrocities.
For orientation, other work found that perceptual drift of tilted lines follows a world-centered (as opposed to retinotopic) frame of reference [15].
Next month, the University of Chicago Press will publish "Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World," a compendium of Sardet's photographs from the expedition.
