In my picture, the children's movement seems broken down into its successive phases, as in a Muybridge photograph; one child still has a foot on the river bank, others are flying all the way up in the air; several are touching the river's surface.
After a sudden counter-attack initially seemed to have broken down with Wayne Rooney's wayward pass, Welbeck's determination kept the move alive.
Mike Mussina signed with the Yankees last week after concluding that the Baltimore Orioles' passionless negotiations with him reflected an ambivalence about whether he came back, and Cone's negotiations seemed to have broken down for similar reasons.
"There are no 'good' or 'bad' people," Tennessee Williams wrote to Kazan when negotiations with Selznick seemed to have broken down, "Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego".
But the pair's fractious relationship now seems to have broken down completely.
THE level of trust was never very high, but now it seems to have broken down completely.
The state food distribution system seems to have broken down everywhere, including the capital, Pyongyang, which usually gets special treatment from Kim Jong Il's regime.
But recently, that relationship seems to have broken down, with the economy growing much more slowly than the restaurant numbers would indicate.
He said that the industry's task, at a moment when people are anxious and things seem to have broken down, is to keep things in perspective.
Even Mr. Bonior seems to have broken down some partisan barriers lately, joining Mr. Wolf and two other Republicans, Bob Ney of Ohio and Tom Tancredo of Colorado, at three news conferences in the last two weeks.
