Seventy minutes of uninterrupted motion, "Rain" is set to music by Steve Reich, Ms. de Keersmaeker's frequent choice of composer, and has been described by an English reviewer as looking like "wind streaking the surface of water".
Until recently, the Tawahkas hunted and foraged and fished and interspersed crops with untouched ground and overgrown fallow, preserving this last uninterrupted stretch of rain forest.
The disaster unfolding in Houston appeared suddenly, starting with severe storms Saturday evening that came with slashing, sideways rain and almost uninterrupted lightning.
That's a) a hopeful sign for some uninterrupted play, after Wednesday's rain-affected disappointment, and b) potentially a workable metaphor for the arrival of Dan Evans on the British tennis scene, or at least the bits of it not already lit up, granted, by the brilliant rays of the Sun King, aka Andy Murray, and the burgeoning beams cast by Li Na's worst nightmare, Laura Robson.
She emphasized Takemitsu's closeness to Messiaen by choosing pieces that were either early ("Uninterrupted Rest") or late ("Les Yeux Clos" and the "Rain Tree Sketch" pair), and Messiaen's closeness to Takemitsu by restricting herself to items the Japanese composer could have known as a student: four of the Preludes and three of the "Vingt Regards".
Indeed, a rain storm consists of an uninterrupted flow of states having in common that it is both raining and windy.
To calculate the length of a wetting period, we use the following rule: two successive wetting periods, the first started by rain, should be considered a single, uninterrupted wet period if the intervening dry period is less than 24 hours.
Of the 12 scheduled days of first-class cricket for Australia before the one-day series, six were rained off and only three were uninterrupted, allowing the tourists roughly 30 hours of time in the middle against Hampshire, Somerset, Glamorgan and Gloucestershire (quite a lot of time in comparison to current tour schedules).
Considering a forecast that called for two hours of rain, then clearing, the Yankees held back Pettitte to pitch five uninterrupted innings after the expected shower.
It was as if a hand drew hazy pictures in the sky during the rainy seasons, when rain fell in deluges pulsating with spasms of thunderstorms for six uninterrupted months.
