Though To the Lighthouse places World War I at its background (exploding forward through the death of Andrew Ramsay), both Jacob's Room and Mrs. Dalloway explore the effects of the war more comprehensively, representing both its immediate destruction and its long-term repercussions.
A bullet explodes forward and something has to go backward.
"Sleepy just stepped forward and exploded". Warrior forward Greg Ballard echoed Short.
The first sign of the attack was a sole 107-millimeter high-explosive rocket, fired from near the border with Pakistan, that slammed to the ground and exploded beside Forward Operating Base Tillman shortly after 6 a.m.
At 10 45, the scuttling charge detonated in the bow and exploded the forward ammunition magazines.
Very few Helado Negro songs kick in, explode, or charge forward, choosing instead to remain rootless in a placid and stubborn way.
While other commodities are floundering or completely collapsing in this market, lithium--the critical mineral in the emerging battery gigafactory war--is poised to explode, and going forward Nevada is emerging as the front line in this pending American lithium boom.
And despite every indication that Sadr City was "a volcano ready to explode," the Army pushed forward in the belief that the soldiers were on a humanitarian mission, busy with reconstruction projects and sucking up the knee-high slop of sewage that ran through this teeming Baghdad slum of 2.5 million people.
A single torpedo ripped through the Gairsoppa's hull and exploded, causing the forward mast to topple and the antenna to snap, cutting off the ship from the world.
My abiding memory of him is from his "Corsaire" solo, when he performed a zigzag with the same short but thrilling phrase on each diagonal — claiming the air in a hungry assemblé jump, landing with a pounce into a deep grand plié (knees fully bent apart), and at once exploding into a forward sissonne jump, legs split as he hung in the air, and all with an eager naughtiness in his eye.
