The suite took the shape of two long movements, with each half subdivided, and most actions unfolding in sequence.
The tragic destruction of Sammy and his wife, as narrated by Leonard, is a parallel story in a different register, which unfolds in sequence and makes Leonard believe that he's the victim of poetic justice.
I've found the stages often unfold in unpredictable sequence, and wrap back on one another.
Following his own dictum that a story should unfold in a sequence of 800-word scenes with one new idea per scene, Mr. van Vogt complicated his fast-moving narratives beyond comprehension.
"The frontal lobes are involved in working memory, which keep data on line for immediate reference, so if these areas are shut down during REM sleep, it might account for the fact that in dreams, the plot doesn't unfold in linear sequence, and the identities of different individuals morph into each other," Dr. Braun said.
Although the interviewees reflected on the importance of support among all levels, views differed in the ordering of attaining that support, underscoring our conclusion that the process is non-linear and may unfold in diverse sequences without a single path to successful scale-up.
It appears that Xenocrates pictured the universe as unfolding in the sequence: (1) forms = numbers; (2) lines; (3) planes; (4) solids; (5) solids in motion, i.e. astronomical bodies; …; (n) ordinary perceptible things.
This theme of happy accidents pertains to 'seat-of-the-pants' opportunism when unplanned avenues of commerce just unfold in a surprising sequence of good fortune or less-than-judicious, perhaps slightly manic impulse, as exemplified in the following instances from the data: My team was part of a smaller subcontractor hired to build hardware.
As participants in (what Thoreau called) "the great central life" of the earth, rocks have a life that unfolds in time sequences that are quite different from ours and yet also subject to the impermanence that conditions all things.
Every age comes with its own challenges that unfold in a predictable, unstoppable sequence.
But for reasons of domestic politics and priorities, each ally might like to see events unfold in a slightly different sequence.
