Word: circularity
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...while Catherine recounts the relationship in reverse, from the breakup to their first kiss. The two reveries intersect only briefly at the middle—just long enough for Jamie and Catherine to kiss, sway, and say, “I do.” This circular structure leaves little room for serious character or plot development, and the audience doesn’t glean much beyond the basic facts. We learn that he’s a talented and popular young writer with a big ego (“I left Columbia and I don’t regret...
...hopes this enthusiasm will snowball within the class as the year progresses. “I feel like the way to really get to know people is through shared work experiences, collaborative efforts towards a common goal,” Moore said, “which is sort of circular, because the goal is to help all the members of the class form stronger friendships with each other.”The marshals said they hope this final year will bring together students who grew apart as they moved from the Yard.“During sophomore and junior years...
...Should the liftoff take place as planned, it will be another 15 months before the spacecraft settles into its low, circular orbit around Mars. After that, it will have a full two years to conduct its surveillance work - a long life for a robot ship, and one that should return a rich trove of science...
...Four miles north along the coastal dunes, the twin smokestacks of the Ashkelon power plant blink their red warning lights. These, too, are within easy range of the rockets of Hamas once Israel takes its troops out of northern Gaza, as are the massive circular fuel tanks around its perimeter, and Israeli officials fear a strike against the plant could cripple Israel's electricity grid. It abuts the city of Ashkelon, which has grown to a mpopulation of 120,000 as new immigrants from Russia flooded into its bright white apartment blocks during the last decade. "That," says Miri Eisen...
...pirates invented their own programs to circumvent that scheme, the manufacturers turned to more elaborate ones. They recorded tracks backward, recorded data between tracks, left spaces between bits of data, used spiral (rather than circular) tracks, even burned tiny, precisely placed laser holes in the original that foiled attempts to duplicate...