Using parallel lines instead of cross-hatching, he achieved a wide range of tones and textures.
Instead of crossing, both receivers broke to the outside.
The second involved a ball that somehow stopped along that line instead of crossing it.
The singers were forced to wander off the stage instead of crossing the bridge into Valhalla.
So, instead of crossing to dummy to finesse in trumps, Roberts made the fine play of leading the spade ace.
Instead of crossing, Kimmich hit the ball hard from a tight angle sending it flying in at the near post.
Instead of crossing in a city, migrants are making the arduous journey through the deserts of Arizona, hiking 50 or more kilometres through arid and desolate terrain.
Some players – such as the former Arsenal, Chelsea and England full-back Ashley Cole, who went to Roma instead of crossing the ocean – are still publicly dismissive of MLS.
"With a battle plan like the Bush administration is proposing, instead of crossing the Delaware River to capture the Hessian soldiers on Christmas Day, George Washington would have stayed on his side of the river and built a bureaucracy".
In some ways, he feels, the ceremony has encouraged his wife and her fellow bat mizvahs to regress to age 13 instead of crossing into womanhood, but perhaps, he decided, that was a necessary part of the experience.
