They are changing the context in which political actions will unfold.

The building with its arches serves as a backdrop in front of which the action unfolds.

So share how good it feels as the action unfolds.

The other guards stood by watching the action unfold.

The action unfolds in "real time" while the audience watches.

When they reject him, the action will unfold on a human, rather than mythical, scale.

Or the play's entire action might be unfolding within his head.

The action unfolded kaleidoscopically in a dozen rooms at once.

The action unfolded with each side at once anxious to cover its own trade and to intercept that of the other.

Sometimes we don't mind a narrator holding our hand as the action unfolds.