maelstrom

How To Use maelstrom In A Sentence

• In that context, I found phrases like these kind of disconcerting and hard to read: the passions of his bewildered heart … a maelstrom of melancholicaly erupted emotion … causing a bit of the guilt to spatter through his brow … that would never permit his repression, never allow for nothing short of predetermined apocalyptic salvation. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
• She qualified that by saying any other country, but she was in an emotional maelstrom. Times, Sunday Times
• It is that maelstrom that gives our galaxy its spiraling, dervishly outflung arms. Coleman Barks: Rumi's Poetry: 'All Religions, All This Singing, One Song'
• White water poured over the sides of the raft which now was slewing down the wave, broadside into a maelstrom.
• As we speak we are still in the midst of a kind of folktale maelstrom, so you’ll forgive me if my initial sideways glance at “Letters from Rapunzel,” appeared to produce just more of the same. Review of the Day: Letters from Rapunzel
• Dense guitars, keyboards, and occasional handclasps and miscellaneous noise add to the controlled maelstrom.
• But does that mean he can't find an hour in his diary to sort out the howling financial maelstrom that is football? Times, Sunday Times
• When players collided, they simply separated and moved on, folding back into the turbulent maelstrom of sweat and speed.
• Or maybe she was sucked into a maelstrom of organised crime, from which only he could extricate her.
• Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.