explode
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That reminds me of Jane Alison's "Meander, Spiral, Explode," where she shows how the traditional pyramid structure plot is not the only way to tell a story.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2023
"Explode coração na maior felicidade ... 💥🎉🇧🇷🎭🎊💫" she wrote which roughly translates to "my heart explodes with great happiness."
From Fox News • Feb. 25, 2020
“Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative” is Alison’s new book about narrative structure, in which she envisions alternatives to the Aristotelian progression of beginning, middle, and end.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2019
Good times, too, at Sean Holmes's Lyric, where the David Eldridge/Robert Holman/Simon Stephens collaboration A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky is probably the play that has haunted me most this year.
From The Guardian • Dec. 28, 2010
I put on my best If-I-Don’t-Go-Now-I’m-Going-To- Explode face.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
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