In such a linguistic system, the concept of linear progress of time, geometric shapes, and even conventional methods of description are lost altogether or altered.

In his hands, the waterways' halting but inexorable linear progress finds not just a description but also an analogy in the frame-by-frame movement of film.

The idea of linear progress was an important part of Haeckel's recapitulation theory of evolution, which held that the embryological development of an organism repeats its evolutionary history.

Regarding the first idea, if notions of linear progress are all that most modern jazz musicians are striving for, he's right.

Beyond that, you can't expect some kind of linear progress; you just appraise the music's premise and see how well the playing has fulfilled it.

There have been periods of optimism in the past, only for unexpected shocks to undermine what was assumed to be linear progress.

Varying conceptualizations of historicity emphasize linear progress or the repetition or modulation of past events.

But linear progress in a single direction is only one pattern of relational development.

The bloodletting of that conflict had indicted the whole notion of linear progress.

So the resurrection of genres in installations is a way of leapfrogging backward over the 19th-century obsession with linear progress and evolution.