Documentation of the slowly changing flow through time, as envisaged by Darwin, emerges clearly from Romer's studies of the evolution of extinct fishes, amphibians, and reptiles.
Those articles were appearing at the very moment that Jefferson's ideas of liberty and self-government were about to prove another generation of cynics absolutely dead wrong, ideas that were going to, as Jefferson prayed, flow through time and spread their happy influence over the face of the earth as people behind the Iron Curtain and around the world threw off the yokes of totalitarianism.
Faulkner uses stream-of-consciousness narration to suggest the way that Benjy's mind flows through time: memory, reality and emotion meet, shift, and kaleidoscopically recombine.
The book ebbs and flows through time, allowing its hero to examine his lived life as well as pondering what the future might hold.
The streets are full of good-looking people lollygagging on their way to work, running into friends, stopping to chat or have a hot chocolate, unmoved by a digital culture's addiction to repetition and precision, flowing through time in an old-fashioned way.
By looking at a few genomes of Ebola, the scientists hoped to grasp an image of the whole virus, which could be conceived of as a life-form visible in four dimensions, as vast amounts of code flowing through time and space.
Systematic changes in the volume and caliber of turbidity flows through time trigger a fall of the equilibrium profile, which drives erosion and sediment bypass across the slope, followed by a rise of the equilibrium profile, which allows deposition on the slope of increasingly mud-rich sediments through time.
In this sense, the points that comprise an individual's phenotype flow through time in a dense, near-continuous stream.
