Most of his seventy-nine chapters take a theme — noise, nature, violence, sex — and range back and forth in time with confusing alacrity.
In this way, a Seaglider can cover 20km (around a dozen nautical miles) or more a day in a way that uses so little electrical power that its battery should last almost a year.The Seagliders that MIZ has launched will range back and forth between the open ocean and the water under the ice sheet, following that sheet's edge as it retreats.
To minimize the collection time, the patterns were collected only in the 33° to 43° 2θ range back and forth at a scan rate of 5°/min and the evolution of the diffraction peaks was monitored simultaneously.
This shifting of voices and stories, ranging back and forth in time and place, may sound dauntingly complicated; luckily, it doesn't read that way.
Reasons ranged back and forth between, "all those fans went home disappointed" to "we're competing with a draw-dependant soccer, we have to stamp it out".
His jacket off, his glasses riding low on his nose, Mr. Harrison ranged back and forth behind the lectern for close to 45 minutes.
O'Connell's offers Samad and Archie a place from which they can view the interaction between the various families as the novel ranges back and forth in both contemporary and historical time.
While the main narrative unfolds in New York over a period of a week or two in the fall of 1996, most of the story -- given through tangled anecdotal asides and digressions -- ranges back and forth through the past.
Ranging back and forth across decades, expansive in its scope and ambition, this is a book far more capable of demonstrating the short story's variety and strangeness than Smith's puckish anthology, by necessity a snapshot of a particular literary landscape.
For long stretches, though, nothing seems to be happening at all, because the action takes place entirely within Frank's consciousness, which ranges back and forth between past and present, filling in some biographical gaps while leaving plenty of loose ends dangling.
He ranged back and forth, often within the same novel, from the philosophical to the social, the economic, and the legal; from Paris to the provinces; and from the summit of society to the petite bourgeoisie, studying the destructive power of what he called thought or passion or vital energy.
