Sentence examples for succeeding one another from inspiring English sources

When the cylinder is spun, the slits blur together to the eye but have the effect of showing the images on the inside clearly as if they are succeeding one another — an elementary form of animation.

Unlike the ideas of contiguity and succession, however, the idea of necessary connection is subjective, in the sense that it derives from the act of contemplating objects or events that we have experienced as being constantly conjoined and succeeding one another in a certain order, rather than from any observable properties in the objects or events themselves.

Grover Norquist, the anti-tax activist who is pursuing a constitutional amendment that would ban family members from succeeding one another to elected office (Hillary Clinton would not be effected), offered a very similar assessment.

State repression in China comes in cycles, with thaws and freezes succeeding one another according to the rise and fall of political factions in the leadership and the waxing and waning of civic courage.

Couples and threesomes succeeding one another, exuberant and socializing and intimate.

The idea of time had somehow to be constructed out of the primitive experience of ideas succeeding one another.

Then he picked the videos up off the floor, put the one with Ignacio López Tarso in the VCR, and as the soundless images succeeded one another on the screen, he began to cry.

Triangles, circles, a grasshopper, red berries, a pink flower, a toe, Mount Analogue, a flickering light bulb, a smokestack — images succeeded one another on the grid, in richly colored syncopation.

In the 10 years that Ms. del Corte Hirschfeld and Mr. Leiner have lived in their apartment, four commercial tenants have succeeded one another on the building's ground floor: El Caribe Driving School; a Pentecostal church; a Stretch-a-Dollar store; and currently, an employment center for day laborers.

"Events and places succeed one another like items on a shopping list," she writes.

As she puts it in the opening chapter: "Events and places succeed one another like items on a shopping list.