Some of those frames help to orient us in space, distinguish up from down and left from right, but some are more richly symbolic: they help us sort out recurring forms from mere incidents of light.
The next day he met once again with border-state congressmen, warning them that if they did not "emancipate gradually... the institution in your states will be extinguished... by the mere incidents of the war... and you will have nothing valuable in lieu of it".
This game of virtual land grabbing no longer consists of mere incidents and the practice threatens to become institutionalized.
She called "The City and the Pillar" a "book without illusion, without feeling, and without poetry": Jim, in your story, kills Bob because Bob has not romanticized the sexual relationship they once had, has looked upon it flatly as a mere sexual incident of no importance. . . .
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The remark, of course, typifies a broader sentiment in America and raises the most important "why" question: Why do so many like King see extremist acts by non-Muslims as mere isolated incidents that "make no sense to talk about," yet see extremist acts by Muslims as a systemic problem worthy of military invasions and now congressional witch hunts?
The entertainment network later apologized in a statement to the press, calling the whole incident mere "miscommunication," but Scott dubbed it a "non-apology".
We cannot capture the sweep of the narrative in mere facts, isolated incidents or (worst of all) talking points – we are obliged to construct our own fictions to place cricket in our memories.
