At the Petersburg mine explosion, an operator sat close at hand with an instrument, and notified Gen. Meade of the progress of affairs until the occasion no longer required his presence.
It is by now well known that the play, first staged in 1978, charts the progress of an affair in reverse, so that the dramatic tension lies not in what happens next, but in who knows what when.
Napoleon's peninsula struggle contributed considerably to his eventual downfall; but until 1813 the conflict in Spain and Portugal, though costly, exercised only an indirect effect upon the progress of French affairs in central and eastern Europe.
Without it, most discovery and most of the progress in human affairs would never have occurred.
Its structure is organised to stall the progress of the love affair.
His new novel is just as unsettling, following the progress of a love affair in Auschwitz and taking us into the minds of Germans doing their best to normalise their part in the Nazi regime.
He was also a dwarf and a hunchback, attributes crucial to this lively fictionalization of his life by the late German novelist, which charts Lichtenberg's love affair with the progress of civilization and, in parallel, his failure to find a wife.
Rapture's 51 poems chart the progress of a single passionate love affair, from its delirious beginning – "Falling in love is glamorous hell / The crouched parched heart like a tiger ready to kill / A flame's fierce licks under the skin" – to its desolate end: "All day slow funerals have ploughed the rain / We've done again that trick we have of turning love to pain".
Marlowe's second memoir — the first was about her time as a heroin user — candidly recounts her fascination with Afghanistan and the hungry, hopeless, clumsy progress of the affair.
As the story progresses, and we reach the end of the affair, we begin to understand the coldness of the opening.
