Yet the job of a director is more than setting the pace; it's finding the core of the film, and a strong director could have told the producers where, in the present day, it's to be found.
Virtual prototyping of robots dynamic is one of the interesting fields where in the present day tools are used to simulate mechanical systems as a multi-body system with two or more rigid bodies imperfectly joined together having the possibility of relative moment between them.
Where the present-day solution would have been to send in the accountants - swiftly followed by the wrecking ball - John Bedford, chairman of Woollands' owners, the Debenham Group, had made the uncharacteristically radical decision to allow Moss a fairly free hand.
The mismatch in the reservoir, where the present-day stress orientation was determined by borehole breakouts, shows that the concept, even under perfect conditions, is not generally applicable and should thus be applied with caution.
We used a landscape fire succession model to estimate the historical range of variability of vegetation and fire in a dry forest landscape (size ca. 7900 km2) where the present-day risk of high severity fire threatens the persistence of older closed canopy forest which may serve as Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) habitat.
The words "according to Aubrey", or "Aubrey says", resound down the centuries to the present day, where they still appear in the introductions to new books on Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, Isaac Newton and Christopher Wren.
Inside the auditorium, the action shifts to the present day, where a rehearsal of Puff's latest tragedy is under way.
Cut to the present day, where Victor awakes from a nightmare, his brow damp with sweat, his eyes wide with fear.
In the heavily embargoed Century 2009, out this week, they arrive in the present day, where they are facing apocalypse and the foretold birth of the antichrist – who, it turns out, has a hidden scar and a mentor named Riddle.
The burst of violence was brief – maybe 15 seconds – just long enough for an adrenaline spike before the storyline jumped back to the present day, where a cockroach was scuttling along a countertop in a quiet, sunlit room.
