It was the arc of the ball, starting high and then taking a sudden dip, that took it past Butland, even though Stoke's goalkeeper managed to get his fingertips to the ball.
As successful pieces of walking theatre, such as Mulgrave, have proved, it is the entire arc of the journey that matters, and not just the destination.
But it is the longer arc of her pop life that makes Faithfull's progress a riveting, cautionary tale.
The descent of Jason Brody, from party guy to vengeful killer, is brutal and convincing – it is the story arc of the slasher flick, grafted into a Joseph Conrad novel.
Since this artery communicated with the SMA and the celiac trunk, independently of the gastroduodenal and dorsal pancreatic arteries, it was considered to be the arc of Buhler (AOB).
It's the upward arc of its music, which finds a plaintive hunger to loom large, if only for a moment, that gives lost souls something like nobility.
It's the logical arc of a journalist's life".
But it's the emotional arc of the novel that compels.
It is the southernmost of an arc of such salt lakes northeast of the Flinders Range, including Lakes Gregory, Blanche, and Callabonna, all sharing a common origin in a larger ancestral Lake Eyre (to the northwest).
I remember being floored by the scale of the place, but I also noticed how pretty, almost dainty it was: the silvery arcs of the Chrysler Building; the dark filigree of Central Park trees glimpsed from a cab window; later, lights twinkling.
