With a sea change (partly generational, mostly philosophical) overtaking architecture, and attention turning from glamorous buildings and celebrated designers to broader issues like urbanism, public space, social responsibility and collaboration, "Common Ground" is well intended but, alas, a missed opportunity.
The earth-shaking devastation of bombs and missiles was mostly stilled today, overtaken by the more distant sounds of artillery and rocket fire, by the staccato of machine-gun and rifle bursts, and by the scream of American jets flying what appeared to be low-level ground support missions.
The study of theory, led by mostly unreadable eminences, has overtaken the academic world, at several removes from Kenner's enjoyable approach.
The two cities are currently joined by a plodding six-hour train ride or a dangerous drive down what is mostly a two-lane highway overtaken by speeding semis, trundling farm equipment and meandering cows.
The botnets are mostly networks of personal computers overtaken by malicious software that is controlled by a master program.
One would think that those fabulously blessed royals and sheikhs and emirs would have been lining up to back the UNHCR's attempts to mitigate the catastrophe that has overtaken millions of their mostly Sunni Arab brethren.
My own personal Facebook feed, mostly full of college students, has been completely overtaken by the posts, showing engagement of social media users on a global scale.
China's rapid expansion of mostly coal-fired electricity generation is the main reason it has overtaken the United States as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, according to the International Energy Agency in Paris.
In the past, trade between the two countries was mostly defense related, but in more recent years that market has been overtaken by civilian goods.
WASHINGTON -- With Pakistan reeling from a terrorist attack that killed 141 people, mostly children, opposition leader Imran Khan on Wednesday declared an end to protests that have overtaken the capital of Islamabad for four months.
