The chronically unemployed Gerasim Gavrilovich, for instance, blows his chance at a movie career in "Photogénique" because he can't reconcile himself to playing the part of a thief, while 19-year-old Antonina Nikolaevna Selindrina unexpectedly becomes the title character in "The Argentine" after a brief, eventful passage through Paris.
On Tuesday, for instance, Terry Edwards blew a guttural blues riff on a saxophone again and again for what seemed like most of the session.
He notes with wonder and characteristic sarcasm that Edward Teller and the Atomic Energy Commission envisioned using atomic power for vast civil engineering projects — for instance, "to blow away irksome impediments to commerce and shipping like the Great Barrier Reef of Australia".
Without the bone's restricting support, the membrane is free to bulge out as pressure builds up in the inner ear, for instance by nose blowing, heavy lifting, or loud noise.
I can, for instance, remember him blowing up and forbidding my mother and me from using a nearby grocery store because, he claimed, its owners had been "war profiteers".
Countless fairly simple reforms have been stalled.Chemical factories, for instance, remain big targets: blowing one up could kill 10,000 people.
For instance, "A wind is blowing from the east, but you are facing the south side of a tree.
A smart grid could turn on appliances should, for instance, the wind blow more strongly.
For four days after the meltdown, for instance, the wind blew out to sea.
And given the country's reputation as a "serial defaulter" (in 2008, for instance, Mr Correa blew a raspberry at creditors owed $3.2 billion), donors were right to wonder if it might not renege on the pledge never to touch the ITT.
