Yet Amis's judgment still stands; and passing over the immature work, the reader hits upon a virtually unbroken string of quietly harrowing masterpieces.
Nevertheless, under Haider's leadership, the FPÖ had a virtually unbroken string of successes in increasing its strength at all levels, as well as in elections for the European Parliament.
Driving back from the airport, the couple begin their normal palavering, which suddenly turns sour, a sequence that Linklater and the cinematographer Christos Voudouris shoot in a virtually unbroken take.
Talk of a peculiar kind: a virtually unbroken peroration by the general, seeking to denounce and punish the injury done him by friend and wife (dead for 20 years); and, more formidably and agonizingly, to understand it.
"There has been a virtually unbroken nationalist tradition in the east of the country for decades," said Klaus Klott, a teacher who worked for several years in the eastern town of Jena.
A so-called passive home like the one the Landaus are now building is so purposefully designed and built — from its orientation toward the sun and superthick insulation to its algorithmic design and virtually unbroken air envelope — that it requires minimal heating, even in chilly New England.
