But unlike subsequent revolutions in France, Russia, and China, where a single person came to embody the meaning of the revolutionary movement Napoleon I, Vladimir Ilich Lenin/Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong the revolutionary experience in the United States had multiple faces and multiple meanings that managed to coexist without ever devolving into a unitary embodiment of authority.
Dragons Were the show ever to devolve into silliness (what? "devolve" you say? Oh shush), we'd have to keep watching if only to see what kind of Armageddon the Khaleesi's fire-breathing brood might yet cause.
The central government has devolved ever more spending responsibilities to local governments, especially after a huge fiscal stimulus ordered in 2008 in the wake of the global financial crisis.
Over the course of several decades, a series of constitutional reforms have devolved ever more powers to the regional authorities (both regions and communities).
We kind of live with this stuff and the vague pain it causes -- because we know it's wrong and feel the wrongness deep inside us -- and in the process of ignoring this pain we have devolved ever more deeply into techno-escapism.
He says he's propelled by a desire to promote "big ideas," but his candidacy has devolved into ever smaller talk and ever more desperate sideshows that drag an already undistinguished debate ever lower.
Just as Britain has devolved ever-greater powers to Scotland, so Spain has devolved power to Catalans and Basques.
But by 2011 both Democrats and Republicans had figured out how to game the system, and Arizona's experiment in bipartisanship devolved into ever more devious forms of ratfucking.
Life is always adjusting to its environment, ever evolving or devolving, depending on the conditions.
It also represents some of the most purely beautiful music she has ever made, often devolving to a series of keening duos between Anderson's violin and her viola player Eyvind Kang, as achingly lovely as Bartok's Pieces For Two Violins.
