Subsequent scenes (with changes in their inhabitants' status signaled efficiently by ingenious variations in Derek McLane's single set) skip ahead to 9 years later, then 12, until finally we wind up in 1983 or 4. By then ambition, ideals and potential have all shrunk like slogan-bearing T-shirts left too long in the dryer.
By destroying his career, reputation, and possibly his personal life, Mr. Dorrinson said, "General Petraeus achieved exactly what he set out to do: skip testifying about Benghazi.
No matter what I do — skip breakfast, set multiple alarms or go to sleep early the night before — I always seem to arrive at the hospital exactly 30 minutes late for my appointments.
Having skipped painlessly through the upbeat Season One box set, I skip forward to the soul-searching, post-9/11 'Isaac and Ishmael' episode that many consider the series' creative tipping point.
Congress, in other words, is set to skip town until September without sending a bill to the president's desk to deal with an influx of more than 57,500 unaccompanied minors who have been apprehended at the border since the beginning of October -- even though nearly all members in both chambers have deemed the situation a crisis.
We decided to use the pre-created characters that came with the starter set, skipping the laborious process of character creation.
As the back end of the set skips from project to project, it begins to feel slightly scattershot; Guthrie's musical autobiography, which folds in a kind of biography of the nation, gives way to more equivocal campaigns on behalf of a federal government that was willing to admit the views of artists, up to a point.
Because of the story's long history, the show is able to skip setting the scene and jump right into the game of playing with our expectations.
If the nursery is set up well enough and is in a good space that you and/or your partner can get to quickly, skip setting it up in her room and place the baby directly into the proposed room setting.
There have also been allegations that the children, who grew up in the slums where the film was set, were skipping lessons.
