Cities everywhere planned pyrotechnic and other elaborate public displays to celebrate the millennium individually, but what evolved was a confluence of ancient rituals linked across time zones as the new year repeatedly unfolded out of darkness on television screens around the world.
Folding and unfolding repeatedly, the graphite became thinner and thinner.
As the city was riveted by a second day of hearings on the terror attacks, the judge interviewing the prospective jurors, John G. Koeltl, was obliged to remind them repeatedly that the case unfolding in Federal District Court, just blocks from ground zero, was not related to 9/11.
Plucking it out before the governor had noticed, Mr. Pacquiao repeatedly folded and unfolded the switchblade, testing its sharpness with his index finger.
What he is reading we too can just about make out through this backlit page, repeatedly folded and unfolded, a marvellous patchwork of light and shadow.
The ongoing battle between flyerers and subway staff will unfold repeatedly throughout the day, just one of the loop's endless cycles.
As we watch these shootings unfold, repeatedly, on a dash cam of a police car or an iPhone video, we're left with the impression that police officers do not and this is a sweeping generalization place sanctity on human life.
A man speaking about the distractions of mobile technology is repeatedly interrupted by his own phone and an unfolding domestic drama of chaos and personal humiliation.
Mr. Nuon Chea, now a frail, bent man who walks with a cane and favors large dark glasses, has repeatedly expressed his personal innocence and his disdain for the slowly unfolding judicial process.
Repeatedly, the stricken passengers will allude to the terrible financial situation unfolding in Spanish banks and financial institutions, and Almodóvar will contrive a modest gag by having people confuse that dire situation with the one on the plane.
