Instead, they just drift past, never latching on.
Fishermen in dugout canoes drift past; birds swoop down to the river surface.
"In summer they stretch out big pieces of fur and dry them on the rooftop, and clumps drift past".
Fork-lift electric trucks loaded with piles of skin labelled 'Veau evercalf' and 'Box noisette' drift past silently.
More sophisticated cinematography is conjured up with tracking shots - the camera can jolt around like the Shaky-Cam employed in The Evil Dead films, or just lazily drift past, like every single shot in Armageddon.
Yaoluchuan, the local equivalents of Venetian gondolas – bigger, chunkier, with historically accurate forms – drift past, freighted with tourists rather than bolts of silk bound for Beijing on the once boat-thronged Grand Canal.
Heading east along the Mediterranean, you'll find yourself alongside Chanel-clad women walking tiny dogs and other Cannes types as the golden sands and music-pounding beach restaurants drift past.
I know it sounds foolish, but I would do very well as a tree: giving shade, watching the lives of others drift past — as in slow-motion film — permitting little arms and legs to climb over me.
A more immediate mission, however, involves the square two-story high sheet of silver material rippling gently above us in its fragile frame as we drift past on the sofa.
Two Merganser drakes drift past, like an L.L. Bean print.
Tired, we rested over a late-night (decaf) latte at Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Co., watching the crowd drift past.
