There, the Thunder's lost sweep came with the accompanying injury to Russell Westbrook, whose importance has become painfully apparent to Oklahoma City in Houston's two off-the-mat wins, Berry Tramel writes in The Oklahoman, including Wednesday's 107-100 scorcher.
It was as if he knew he was saying goodbye to his readers in that novel's Gatsby-like concluding lines: "For we are all swimmers ephemerally buoyed by what will engulf us at the last; still dreaming of islands though the mainland has been lost; swept remorselessly out to sea while we spread our arms to the beautiful shore".
In City Center's more intimate setting, it loses sweep and scale but gains in immediacy.
They have not lost since being swept at home by Seattle last weekend, and Torre is encouraged.
Does Robert Downey Jr mutter to himself about all those lost opportunities to sweep the boards in a David Mamet play every time he slips, sulkily into the Iron Man costume?
Then he offered a prediction that had nothing to do with the weather: "I honestly don't think the Tigers are going to win tonight because there's too much money to be lost if they sweep.
The campaign is among a dozen rematches in this election cycle: Steve Chabot, who was first elected in the 1994 Republican sweep, lost his seat to Mr. Driehaus by four percentage points -- 14,772 votes -- and is fighting to win it back.
By the time Westminster finally lost patience and swept aside the discredited one-party regime at Stormont the following March, nearly a thousand men and women had been locked up on the say-so of the security forces.
In an unexpected benefit of the cold war's end, Russian and American archaeologists say they have discovered an ancient civilization that thrived in Central Asia more than 4,000 years ago, before being lost in the sweep of history.
The Phillies led in all three games but lost in a sweep, with Ken Griffey singling off Tom Underwood to clinch the pennant for the Reds in the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 3. The Reds went on to sweep the Yankees in the World Series, and they remain the only team to go undefeated through the postseason since divisional play began in 1969.
