Word: linearized
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...reunion biographies show, we've made up our lives as we've gone along, living several distinct episodes since 1946 rather than following one linear narrative. Only the most determined classmate stayed on her professional course...
...land that is entirely linear is itself limited, and the sorrow of a place like California, it often seems, is that no one there knows who he will be (or who he will be with) a year from now. The absence of external rhythms forces everyone to try to make his own. And a world without seasons is as unnatural as a person without moods: even tropical islands speak of wet seasons and dry; and even places with climatic changes often add divisions of their own (thus the English ruling class follows the season from Henley to Ascot to Wimbledon...
...soft" arts necessarily lack speed and power. As I understand it, the difference rather is about redirecting an opponent's energy/turning his strength or momentum to the defender's advantage/etc. ("circular" moves may be featured) versus a defense consisting of self-originating attacks against the opponent (mention of "linear" moves...
...street" itself is defined largely by light-fluorescent strips shielded with (sometimes) colored gels. The receding parallels of these strips, with their insistent rhythm broken by erratic use of color, define this thoroughfare as something strongly linear (taking you, say, from Sanders Theatre to the Science Center), but interruptible. (You might see a friend in one of the booths, or a notice might catch your eye.) This is architecture that establishes rhythms, then breaks them...
Andorsky, who is a Crimson editor, says he believes the change in leadership is more of a cyclical pattern than a linear trend...