Bipolar disorder, electroshock therapy, a yearning for peace of mind: these are not the usual elements of a successful Broadway musical.
Few writers reject the usual elements of the novel with the same abstemious rigor as Beckett, and so the lack of names in many of these books meshes awkwardly with their otherwise realistic depictions of the world.
Federal prosecutors accused Mr. Puff of employing the usual elements of mortgage fraud: from offices in Woodbridge and Perth Amboy, N.J., he worked with a mortgage broker who fudged applications and appraisers who pumped up real estate values.
The culmination of this rainy week in Wales went beyond the usual elements of success, transcending the emotional return of the Ryder Cup to Europe and the inspired American effort to hold on to it for another two years.
Meloy begins with the usual elements of good middle-grade fiction: a character removed from her ordinary life, the temporary disappearance of one or more parents, a tentative first romance.
"The usual elements of scheming and deception are well represented here, but they are made all the knottier by shifting time frames," Janet Maslin wrote in The Times in 1998.
The usual elements of most sites are pretty much the same, although the presentation is variable enough to suggest Web mistresses ranging from young women with a fair amount of programming know-how and editorial judgment to angry little girls who want to assert their right to protect an unhealthy behavior in the face of parental opposition and who happen to know a little HTML.
The desktop app packages all the usual elements of several recent non-apologies that have come up when other fellow perverts' dark pasts have come to light.
Make no mistake: Levinson and Perry don't believe that you need to walk away from all the usual elements of the job search, such as writing applications and sending CVs.
