Occasionally, the real thing will break through, as when Cassius urges Brutus to "think of the world" — a bitter entreaty, in the mouth of a jailbird.
She has not yet breached the glass ceiling, but is heading that way and I hope one day she will break through, as an example to other women.
Mr. Del Vecchio, who feels that the more things he tries the better his chances are that "at least one will break through," finally may have a full plate.
Up and down the telecom food chain today, the message was the same: Hunker down, because the horizon remains obscured by storm clouds, and there is no telling when the sun will break through again.
"I'm just hoping that we'll break through at some point, but it's not happening," Sprewell said.
"We'll break through those limitations, which will justify a further reach into rural areas from an economic standpoint," said Hank Carabelli, president and chief operating officer of @Link Networks, based in Louisville, Colo., which sells broadband services to regional I.S.P.'s and businesses.
That's likely when we'll break through the current issues we have with anonymity and understand where it will take us next.
And for a time we worry that nothing will break through the icy superficiality that characterizes the lives of Paul and his friends — not so dissimilar from the superficiality of Jake and his crowd in "The Sun Also Rises," but here Xanax and Ecstasy take the place of Burgundy, Champagne and gin.
