These winding routes connect history and memory, the populous past and the empty present.
At least until he meets Sara Kimoto, a character who flits in and out of the narrative as Tsukuru's first potentially serious girlfriend, but whose curiosity about his odd past and oddly empty present is the catalyst for the retrospective journey of self-discovery he reluctantly undertakes.
The presence of a bumblebee in a nestbox at a given stage (Empty, Nest Present, or Bird Present) indicates that the bumblebee invaded the nestbox at this or the earlier stage(s).
Even with the most ludicrous or empty of presents, the exercise of following the object back to its intention is beneficial.
The court stated that "the practice of empty voting presents a challenge to shareholder democracy … when a party has a vote in a company but no economic interest in that company, that party's interests may not lie in the well-being of the company itself".
In the early 17th century, Johannes Kepler believed that the speed of light was infinite, since empty space presents no obstacle to it.
The results of the measurements are presented in Figure 7, where there is a comparison to the results obtained during the experiment in the pressure chamber and under normal conditions, described in [60], full circles present viscosity values with a pressure of 7.5 MPa, while empty circles present those in normal conditions.
In Midtown Manhattan, a door opened, and an empty apartment presented itself.
Americans observe the day by staying home with their families and staring glassy-eyed at their empty Christmas-present boxes.
Mike Parr's performance artwork Empty Ocean, presented as part of Dark Mofo festival on Bruny Island between 2am and 4am, had no need for us.
