As the story sprawls and lurches like a soap opera through the expansive arc of its melodramatic plot points, Cissé maintains patience, and even tenderness, for his self-deluding characters while depicting a wide array of underlying ills, including polygamous marriage, political corruption and cronyism, inflexible class hierarchies, and religious hypocrisy.
Ranging widely from the role of social conformity in violence to snapshots of racial and gender prejudice, Vedantam draws expansive arcs between findings from social psychology and the nation's sensibilities and voting patterns.
It is matched for impact by the Deutsche Motette - a concerto for choir by any other name: its vocal lines trace the same expansive arcs and arabesques as the composer's exquisite, autumnal Four Last Songs.
At this time, structured aurora north of the expansive phase arc brightened once more and definitively.
And yet, in the kind of contrast that is a Madrid trademark, Plaza de Oriente is an expansive, graceful arc presided over by the Palacio Real, the royal palace that once sought to surpass Paris' Versailles, and Teatro Real, the city's opera house and an icon of high culture.
expansive (expansion) phase.
We will take the phases of the substorm to be growth, expansion, and recovery and regard the types of auroral activity taking place during substorms to consist of growth phase arcs, pseudobreakups, breakups or expansive phase onsets, and PBIs.
The onset of the substorm was taken as the start of the expansive phase which begins in a quiet arc near midnight and includes a sudden brightening and rapid poleward expansion.
Akasofu (1964) associated rapid poleward motion of the brightening arc with the start of the expansive phase but noted that in the case of weak substorms, and often if it was not the southernmost arc that activated, the poleward motion did not last long, terming this the "pseudo break-up".
What he took to be his masterwork The Moralists reads like nothing so much as a philosophical novel, with the development of half a dozen characters, narratives of the arcs of friendships and enmities, and expansive descriptions of rooms, gardens, dinners, and landscapes.
Like a good TV drama, episodic releases give developers breathing room to create expansive plots, cliffhangers, and nuanced characterizations over multiseason arcs.
