How To Use Maelstrom In A Sentence
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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.
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She qualified that by saying any other country, but she was in an emotional maelstrom.
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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'
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White water poured over the sides of the raft which now was slewing down the wave, broadside into a maelstrom.
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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.
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Dense guitars, keyboards, and occasional handclasps and miscellaneous noise add to the controlled maelstrom.
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But does that mean he can't find an hour in his diary to sort out the howling financial maelstrom that is football?
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When players collided, they simply separated and moved on, folding back into the turbulent maelstrom of sweat and speed.
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Or maybe she was sucked into a maelstrom of organised crime, from which only he could extricate her.
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Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.
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Christmas Day can be a maelstrom, so don't complicate things with your choice of vino.
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Jodi Cleghorn is glad of her ability to gestate this column at the 11th hour, while cooking dinner, bathing her son and attempting to remain sane in the domestic maelstrom.
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It was over the maelstrom of the First World War trenches that these winged men became the mythic symbols of a new tomorrow.
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Countless seafarers have been dragged into watery graves by the raging maelstrom that inhabits the two-mile strip of open water between the Hebridean islands of Jura and Scarba.
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One mistake would spill me into the maelstrom on my right.
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Somewhere below in the turbulent maelstrom was the starboard rail.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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These became more violent as the rain lessened, and, so absolutely were we centred in this electrical maelstrom, there was no connecting any chain or flash or fork of lightning with any particular thunder-clap.
CHAPTER XXVIII
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At this point many firms dissolve, sometime in a slow slide to failure, sometimes more dramatically in a maelstrom of big emotions and bad decisions.
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It's just a maelstrom of shrieking children, crass commercialism, and ratcheting credit card debt.
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In this maelstrom, more of a hypertrophied present than a near future, certain timeless truths, or tropes (or clichés) endure.
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It metaphorises cyberpunk's social instabilities into an alarming maelstrom of biological uncertainty: exaggerated clarity becomes exaggerated anxiety.
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Staggering through the alien streets, he lost all consciousness of himself in a vortex, a whirling maelstrom, of hideous and terrifying hallucinatory images and imaginings.
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Ben plunged beneath the maelstrom and saved her.
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Catapulting Jackson into the eye of the maelstrom was his explosively creative pairing with another multi-faceted industry legend, Quincy Jones.
Gail Mitchell: Michael Jackson's Unparalleled Musical Legacy
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This in turn led both into the musical and political maelstrom of punk in mid-1970s London.
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The financial maelstrom that has swept through the global economy is not a normal cyclical downturn.
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From this maelstrom emerge the great art and literature which seek to justify or to resolve the inescapable problems.
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A maelstrom of emotions crossed the boy's face: embarrassment, anger, frustration.
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One lugworm and a thin strip of squid will not get very far in a seething maelstrom of a sea where the tide is screaming through and you have other anglers all around you.
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Her announcement early on that she is moving out sets off a maelstrom of change.
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Harden's Krasner is a maelstrom of emotions, lurching from admiration of her husband to fierce rage at his drunken womanising.
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His face was emotionless, but inside was a maelstrom of hurt, sadness, anger, and pain.
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The tram docks, and you fight your way out into what is often a maelstrom of strong winds and snow flurries.
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The recent emergence of Bobby Jindal and Rush Limbaugh in the intraparty maelstrom yet affords fresh opportunities for conservative dismality.
Transterrestrial Musings
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Every time we pass through the Atlantic Avenue maelstrom, which is twelve times a week, we see, as plain as print, the beginning of two magazine tales.
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Pressure for something effective to be done has led to a maelstrom of conflicting reports that has spooked the international markets.
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Once inside, she slid the bolt, leaning thankfully against the door, a maelstrom of emotions fighting for supremacy.
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As with the Bible, two men die, and the third essentially is resurrected from certain death as he escapes from the Maelstrom, perhaps comparable to Jesus' resurrection.
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In the maelstrom of the financial crisis it seems, at times, as if all fixed positions have been abandoned.
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A maelstrom of questions churned his mind and he had no answers.
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Baldwin honestly tries to describe the result, but expressive insight into that emotional maelstrom is not a power within his possession and is not really on offer here.
Divorce, American Style
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Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.
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Around this tiny flicker, a maelstrom of black magicks roiled, drawing sustenance from this sweet flame just as the flames of darkfire dancing on Vira’ni’s skin drew energies from the firelight and moonshine.
Wit'ch Storm
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My other chip from the maelstrom was a lad half grown.
Children of the Tenements
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In late January, he rejoiced amid the maelstrom which surrounds Super Bowl, inactive yet fully involved in the Bucs' charge to the sport's ultimate prize.
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Situated off the north coast of Jura, it is one of the half-dozen biggest maelstroms in the world.
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Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.
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The financial maelstrom that has swept through the global economy is not a normal cyclical downturn.
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The continent of Drevlin was flat and featureless, a hunk of what the mensch called "coralite" floating in the Maelstrom.
The Hand of Chaos
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He blithely sailed off into a maelstrom and delivered a steady performance as France's sailing stars faltered around him.
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He got stuck in a maelstrom and lost his paddles.
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It's just a maelstrom of shrieking children, crass commercialism, and ratcheting credit card debt.
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The crew engage in a maelstrom of activity.
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After scrambling her brain on joint custody, she has plunged into the maelstrom of superannuation rights for same sex couples.
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Instead, the concept of ‘Swan Lake’ as a performance milieu is the basis for a fast paced maelstrom of ballet, yoga, capoeira and gymnastics.
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One must learn to weed out incendiary polemics and agitprop from the whirling online maelstrom to become an informed and thoughtful citizen.
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There seems to be a bit of a craze sweeping the nation at the moment, a whirlwind of activity that can only be described as a mitten maelstrom.
The A.D.D. Knitter--because why should knitting be any different?
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Contrary to the triumphal boosterism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brechin offers imagery of despair with the city as maelstrom.
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The buzzing and roaring noise given forth by the naphtha lamps, the monotonous chanting of the prisoners, the perpetual "All's well" of the sentries, and the intermingling notes of the bugle calls suffused the air with their distracting sounds and made me feel as if my head were in a maëlstrom.
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
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We made a hasty exit back up to the beach and, before long, the water was once again a maelstrom of ever-widening rips, eddies and whirlpools.
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The woman exists or doesn't exist in the maelstrom and miraculously is saved.
Michael Jones: Life After Death: Hereafter
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Several Marines looked around at each other in confusion but no one let down their guard - this silence was even worse than a maelstrom of bullets.
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Situated off the north coast of Jura, it is one of the half-dozen biggest maelstroms in the world.
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Well, it's nice to hear someone in the midst of the maelstrom confirm what we already know, that a cover-up is going on.
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A sign of how skilful a manipulator of the media she has been is the idea which took hold that she was a helpless ingénue, caught up in a maelstrom out of her control and the victim of a politician with powerful media connections.
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Asahi opens the 1910 volume first, coughing and sneezing at the layer of dust that rose and flurried around her in a powdery maelstrom.
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The 1970s detail is quite particular: a chopper bike, space hopper and the piercing tunelessness of the daughter's descant recorder are all thrown into the rowing family's maelstrom.
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The First Minister's keynote address made a determined attempt to set a clearer course for his government in a political maelstrom he compared with exciting, but hazardous, white-water rafting.
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She was totally unprepared for the maelstrom of emotion and excitement in which she found herself.
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The ship turned sideways, with its right side overlooking the deep abyss at the center of the Maelstrom, slowly traveling in the water's currents.
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We made a hasty exit back up to the beach and, before long, the water was once again a maelstrom of ever-widening rips, eddies and whirlpools.
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What would it be like to view that maelstrom from a nearby system?
The SF Fanatic: SF Explores The Ideas Mainstream Fiction Won't
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The river takes a headlong plunge into a maelstrom of rocks and boulders.
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What one historian has called a maelstrom of retaliation and counter-retaliation built to a howling crescendo.
Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – February – 19
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In Maelstrom, the main characters are slick, superficial people who deepen emotionally because of the trauma.
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The raucous, inscrutable essence of democracy could almost be glimpsed in this maelstrom.
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My home usually seemed more like a maelstrom of chaos and disorder.
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Caught in a maelstrom of sensations, I hardly noticed impetuous spring turn into raging summer, blazing heat into the balanced temperature of fall.
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Together they stood in the foretops and conned the ship in through the seething maelstrom of the equatorial current.
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Maelstrom Weapon: Cast time reduction now applies to any spell with a cast time.
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How was he able to find such unusual serenity amid the maelstrom of a grand-slam final?
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She was drawn into a maelstrom of revolutionary events.
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To drag an old friend and a new one into a maelstrom of complications was nearly unforgivable.
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I was caught in a comber of snow - a maelstrom like the break of a tsunami.
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We can split the atom and land a rocket on Mars, but sanity and civilization are a delicate edifice of reason over a maelstrom of envy, insecurity, and terror.
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Passing through it, we take a close look at the growth on the rocks and have a rest from the current that we know will soon turn this small channel into a maelstrom of undiveable water.
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Now, astronomers have found further evidence that Centaurus A is a maelstrom of violence.
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There is likely to be a maelstrom of activity as they fight over the small number of technology firms.
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Some employees did not appear to relish being at the centre of a political maelstrom.
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As an author of children's books, Haddon is particularly adept at writing about Jacob's reaction to the adult maelstrom that surrounds him.
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Everything was perfect, lovely, "decompressing" - yet within him, a maelstrom of weariness, confusion, and desires.
Camy's Loft
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He makes confident strides towards the centre of this fascinating maelstrom, forearmed with in-depth knowledge of India's many contradictions and charms.
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Austere and absorbing, Escape is a convincing descent into a maelstrom of anguish and, ultimately, deadly despair.
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There is such a maelstrom of activity here.
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These became more violent as the rain lessened, and, so absolutely were we centred in this electrical maelstrom, there was no connecting any chain or flash or fork of lightning with any particular thunder - clap.
Chapter 28
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She swiftly loses her naivety in the maelstrom of court life, and becomes a formidable politician.
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The run is a maelstrom of huge waves and sharp pour-overs that sound like the afterburners of an F - 16.
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He didn't fight, didn't even scream as the icy water flooded in and he was sucked down into the maelstrom.
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I would have preferred to remain awake, staring at the ceiling, sweating it out, but no: back into the maelstrom.
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Especially with that maelstrom of mixed emotions to muddle through.
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Inevitably, this maelstrom of activity led to excesses.
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He tosses it beyond a breaking wave, and it bobs and sinks in the maelstrom of receding water colliding with the next surge of the tide.
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To either side, a liquescent nightmare of swirling hellish flame spun round them as the Widow settled ever deeper into the maelstrom.
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As a matter of fact the maelstrom is a whirlpool lying where Poe places it, and it has been made noted by many other accounts than this of Poe, most of which are exaggerated, but none of them so brilliant in execution as
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
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But when did they get anywhere in the maelstrom?
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One lugworm and a thin strip of squid will not get very far in a seething maelstrom of a sea where the tide is screaming through and you have other anglers all around you.
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Somewhere below in the turbulent maelstrom was the starboard rail.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Blinded by the glittering of gold, a multitude of people are sucked into the maelstrom of seeking windfalls by whatever means within reach, legal or illegal.
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The men are angry and young, caught up in a maelstrom of emotions as they struggle to right a wrong, face down the established order and make their voices heard.
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You're gonna bring this jury into what is already fairly described as a maelstrom of media activity, and it's not going to get any better," he says.
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Instantly the water becomes a maelstrom, as huge grey carp or catfish lunge for the food.
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Now he has followed it up with (groan) a sequel, _Maelstrom_; _groan_ because the commercial strategy of tying the two books together has necessitated weighing down virtually the first third of what could have just as well been a free-standing novel with a detailed recapitulation of the events of _Starfish_ and their relation to the surface world that almost had me giving up on the book.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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The news sent many in the media into a maelstrom of unresolved questions.
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I'm a maelstrom of emotions.
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Roxy Paine’s maelstrom of metal branches entangle the rooftop garden, and Argentino-brit Pablo Bronstein’s subtle pisstake in painstaking architects’ drawings of the neoclassical pomposity of the Met itself is quietly outstanding.
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Lydon as well was thrown backwards in the maelstrom.
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The Shade raised its arms and disappeared in a maelstrom of whirling water and howling wind.
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Here at home, the coffee flows in a ceaseless flood of lattes and frappuccinos, tidily iced and foamed and dolloped into a maelstrom of liquid indulgence.
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It was that bankruptcy that led to the global economic maelstrom from we which are thankfully now emerging.
The Sun
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Then it became clear that here is a key to the phenomena of atmospheric circulation, from the great polar-equatorial maelstrom which manifests itself in the trade-winds to the most circumscribed riffle which is announced as a local storm.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
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And it does, eventually climaxing into a churning maelstrom of distorted fuzz.
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Different colors of mana spun and swirled in a maelstrom of colorful fury.
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The countries caught up in the financial maelstrom have already decided on important reforms.
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That way, every drop goes through the magnetic maelstrom.
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He tosses it beyond a breaking wave, and it bobs and sinks in the maelstrom of receding water colliding with the next surge of the tide.
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Why is the entire issue of footballers' pay invariably lost in a maelstrom of barely intelligible envy?
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In this maelstrom, in which the migrant soul had no way to learn or value nature, the only groundings were those of wealth, materialism, humanism, violence and conquest.
