His search for order begins with the construction of a pyramid of support, built Lenin-style from the top down.
He never lets us forget that they are about the search for order in a divided, burning land.
The mystery formula elegantly embodies children's two conflicting impulses: the search for order and security, and the appetite for novelty and risk-taking.
Mr. Amir gestured toward the body in the river as if it contributed to his point about the search for order.
Training to be a police officer is as much her means of acting out as it is her search for order.
Its central theme, that chaos and asymmetry will trump the search for order and patterns, is a familiar one, delineated with considerably more ardor and persuasiveness by this author in previous books.
PERHAPS it is a search for order, for scale, for the rules of proportion, some impulse to keep track, but human beings seem hard-wired to take measure of the world around them.
I was awed, too, by the figure of Mendeleev — his passionate search for order among the elements (more than sixty were known by the eighteen-fifties, a rich chaos), and his final discovery of such an order (supposedly in a dream) in 1869.
In Ronald Steel's admiring review of two new books about Theodore Roosevelt — "The War Lovers" and "The Imperial Cruise" (April 25) — he asserts that Roosevelt never foresaw "that America's search for order and opportunity in Asia, set in motion by the seizure of the Philippines, would later lead into a terrible war between the United States and Japan for control of the Pacific".
As always when there are big moves up or down, the search for order in the universe intensifies as well.
