concentric

As the stakes get higher, the plot ripples out into larger and larger concentric circles that envelop Maggie’s life and everyone in it.

“Every team gets one of these,” said McCabe as he picked up a metal figure made of two concentric triangles from his desk.

“Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups,” Francis wrote.

Whether chronicling the tragic history of the American chestnut, or the anger of contemporary activists confronting climate change, Powers’ concentric plots spin.

We exist in concentric realms, and our multifarious lives can only be lived.