Suzuki showed a patient structural command, giving an arc-like shape to the Kyrie by waiting a hundred or so bars before applying a substantial crescendo.

NEWYORKER: The Book of Bach

The characters swim in data, and their relationships to it shape the arc of the plot, and thus, the fate of the United States.

FORBES: 'Homeland' and the Age of Information Overload

For this reason, as well as the inconvenient fact (oddly completely absent from the letter) that the FTC is, as we noted, already actually investigating Google, we urge Chairman Leibowitz to investigate nothing more pertaining to this letter than the shape of the arc it makes as it flies through the air into his office wastebasket.

FORBES: Skepticism Needed on Senate Call For FTC Probe Of Google