In novels like “The Coup,” […] he set his prowess at social observation loose in exotic land- and mindscapes.

We might imagine a wave of activity, or reentrainent, among the cells making up a model, an activity having a beginning, a series of transformative phases (discrete entrainments, disentrainments, and reentrainments), and an ending.

The muscles about the mouth exhibited puckering movements and occasional pursings and poutings of the lips.

(abstract) I went to the post office. (there and back, multidirectional)