It unfolds in a dream-like sequence of scenes; its themes are innocence and experience, mortality, love and the quest for understanding.
As participants in (what Thoreau called) "the great central life" of the earth, rocks have a life that unfolds in time sequences that are quite different from ours and yet also subject to the impermanence that conditions all things.
The tragic destruction of Sammy and his wife, as narrated by Leonard, is a parallel story in a different register, which unfolds in sequence and makes Leonard believe that he's the victim of poetic justice.
The story unfolds in a daring sequence of narrative leaps.
The New Yorker, January 17 , 2000P. 83 Briefly Noted review of "Tea" (Algonquin; $21.95) by Stacey D'Erasmo...[T]his memorable debut novel unfolds in three extended sequences, each developing a portrait of Isabel Gold, whose tranquil suburban childhood ends when her mother,...commits suicide in a locked hospital closet... View Article.
It appears that Xenocrates pictured the universe as unfolding in the sequence: (1) forms = numbers; (2) lines; (3) planes; (4) solids; (5) solids in motion, i.e. astronomical bodies; …; (n) ordinary perceptible things.
Following his own dictum that a story should unfold in a sequence of 800-word scenes with one new idea per scene, Mr. van Vogt complicated his fast-moving narratives beyond comprehension.
"The frontal lobes are involved in working memory, which keep data on line for immediate reference, so if these areas are shut down during REM sleep, it might account for the fact that in dreams, the plot doesn't unfold in linear sequence, and the identities of different individuals morph into each other," Dr. Braun said.
Grito unfolds in a clearly delineated sequence (male group, female group, trio, duet, ensemble), each scene in its own way exposing the bones of flamenco technique – the torque of the torso, the switch of shoulder and hip, the lines of limbs cleanly displayed, steps and poses pinned exactly to the musical rhythms.
Development of RHs unfolds in a well-known sequence.
The personal experience which lends his settings such vibrancy is never more important than in a sequence that unfolds in New York in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
