Then came the cumin lamb, and conversation (never exactly free-flowing) ceased completely.
How, he wonders, can "the endless firmament of our interiority – the thoughts and questions and yearnings and hopes and hunger and desire and the thousand and one contradictions that inhabit us at any given moment – ever have an ending that could be marked by a date on a calendar?" For him, this question has been complicated by not knowing when, exactly, his father ceased to exist.
It's not exactly clear when Google ceased to be a search company.
It started at the historic Puck Building, once home to Puck Magazine, which ceased publication exactly 100 years ago.
The ACARS, which sends messages intermittently, might have ceased functioning at exactly the same time as the transponder, it turned out.
In 1500 the major texts constituting a humanistic education, though numerous, could still be counted; by 1900 they were legion, and people had long ceased agreeing about exactly which ones they were.
There is no documentation detailing exactly when Kentucky's provisional government ceased operation.
While PAGAD's own leaders remained largely unscathed, kingpin after kingpin found themselves being hosed with R5 assault rifles in their driveways, wondering when exactly it was that they'd ceased to be untouchable.
It was exactly as if the world had ceased, been blotted out" (1 ).
The dates of Dr. Hedges's specimens and, more telling, the dates after which the lizards ceased to be collected, correspond almost exactly with the introduction of the mongoose.
