But then, little by little, the words become only sounds, a random collection of glottals and fricatives, a storm of whirling phonemes. |
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It is a dance, swirling and whirling until one person tires of it or moves on to a new partner. |
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At first, whirling scales and broken arpeggios scamper across the keyboard, hopefully tethered by tonic pedal notes in the bass. |
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Adam, in turn, mulled over his father's words before he voiced the many questions whirling through his head. |
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Even as late as the 17th century, Descartes imagined all space to be filled with little whirling vortices which he called the plenum. |
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I'm pulled, whirling through the water free and weightless, and the movements take on a dreamy quality, as if I'm in slow motion. |
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The whirling flavours release bitter-sweet lime, aromatic bitters and fiery ginger with every twist. |
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Turkey is a whirling dervish of spicy Near Eastern culture, with as many experiences on offer as there are varieties of Turkish delight. |
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He sidestepped and took a wild swing at her back, to be met by an arcing sword that struck his blade out of his hand and sent it whirling. |
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Cecil mustered what was left of his strength and jumped backwards, narrowly avoiding a whirling morning star. |
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The cloud seemed to shimmer slightly, and then it coalesced into two whirling dust devils that raced away towards the enemy at phenomenal speed. |
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Sea foam and a large whirling wave submerge Renaissance-style domes, while muscled, skirted satyrs on horseback attempt to ride upstream. |
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Momentum from the whirling caused her body to continue sliding on a smooth, level surface. |
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High above his grazing flock, eight shiny new wind turbines are whirling away supplying electricity to the national grid. |
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The wind grew fiercer, sending leaves and twigs whirling around in the air. |
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But her words fell upon deaf ears, Tane was moving, spinning, whirling around with tears in his eyes. |
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From time to time, the flash of her camera lights up the dust in whirling clouds. |
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The first thing I noticed was the wind and cold exacerbated by the chopper's whirling blades blasting the freezing air down on us. |
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All he knew was that his brain was whirling, his throat was burning, and everything was all wrong. |
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I perceived its flattened, whirling body, its disc-like belt, and seven of its little satellites. |
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He was once again stoic and calculating, the face was blank, but she could sense that behind it his mind was whirling. |
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You travel invisibly, whirling, blustering, tearing things apart, a vortex in grass flattened out as if a derro's slept there overnight. |
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The air was darkened with a whirling, seething mass of powder-like snow which appeared to come up from the ground as well as down from the sky. |
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It seemed as though her body was dissolving, and as the potency rose, that her mind was whirling, spinning free of her. |
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Her mind was whirling with what a sight that would be when his coughing brought her back to reality and out of dream land. |
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Mind whirling with sudden recognition, I placed her in my memory as the girl I'd noticed at Demitrav's office. |
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But how can you sack out when your brain is whirling over tomorrow's three tests, cheerleading tryouts and your latest crush? |
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Later on as the willy-willy gallops across the country, whirling a column of dust, trees lash their branches to warn man of the oncoming storm. |
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It had been huge, whirling, powerful, unrelenting, with a perpetual fury against anything and everything in the world. |
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He began to tell me about whirling electrons and orthicon-tubes and other nonsense, but I cut him short with an abrupt wave. |
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I'd come out with the milk bottles, and she'd walk beside me with her skipping rope, whirling it around her head like a lasso. |
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Simon manages to imply whole whirling masses of emotional upheaval in but a few words and lines of melody. |
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He wandered on down the road, tears streaming down his cheeks, the questions whirling in his brain. |
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But the specific Sufism from which the whirling dervishes originated, which is Turkish, is as simple as this. |
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The sounds of leaves rustling in the wind were whirling around in a pit of fury. |
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But how can you sack out when your brain is whirling over tomorrow's three tests, cheerleading try-outs and your latest crush? |
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What they are good at is picking logic up by its tail and whirling it around in circles, ignoring its protesting screams and caterwauls. |
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The Shade raised its arms and disappeared in a maelstrom of whirling water and howling wind. |
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The admiral stared at the blank screen for a few more minutes, his mind whirling a mile a minute. |
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Sunspots are whirling masses of electrically charged gas formed by magnetic fields deep within the Sun. |
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But that is closely followed by a whirling tap dance by the actor who twirls chairs and leaps on bars with fantastic agility. |
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The turbulence this mammoth decline will create will throw every aspect of our lives through whirling vortexes. |
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They can produce a severe whirling sensation accompanied by nausea and vomiting. |
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She shot an ice-charged projectile down at the scimitars, but the whirling cutters diced it to ribbons in the blink of an eye. |
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On our whirling globe with its transitory, jet-propelled people, isolation is no longer the demoralising fate it once was. |
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Firstly, a man brandishes a halberd before whirling it around like a majorette might twirl a baton. |
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We're not only talking modern dance, we're looking at all of dance's forms like capoeira, raves and whirling dervishes. |
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The ambulance arrives in a flurry of whirling lights and wailing sirens. |
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Predictably, he discovered on arrival at 6.15 on Wednesday night that, while his golf clubs were whirling round the carousel, his luggage had been lost en route. |
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Will I soon be going to Tea Dances at the village hall, whirling Mrs Skidmore round in a slow waltz in between the cups of weak Typhoo and the Garibaldi biscuits? |
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She left them, and made her way back to her bunk, her mind whirling. |
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Her mind was whirling with the fact that he'd kissed her back. |
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Elise stared at the missive, brain whirling with unspoken questions. |
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Within seconds, the few whirling ripples had smoothed back into an undisturbed mirror surface, reflecting the dark blue of the fading evening sky. |
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Her trademark long blond bangs strike out at odd angles, whirling to and fro as she speaks. |
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As Sclavis and Collignon explore the first of several ecstatic improvised conversations, whirling folk dances turn into warp-speed vocal scatting against electronic echoes. |
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Suddenly, they all turn and start scrabbling down the path, the sound of a helicopter echoing overhead and sending a cloud of crows whirling into the sky. |
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The chocolate is put in large conching machines that spin it though whirling blades to knead it for hours. |
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You set an angle on the dial, put a piece of wood on the surface and then big whirling blades of death chomp down and cut a perfect mitre joint for you. |
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Each triturator has a set of whirling metal disk with attached teeth. |
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For the next fortnight Aquarian Venus busily stretches your social horizons, whirling and swirling you through various, multifarious, interesting new possibilities. |
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They all play a part in this whirling, well oiled machine, helping bring The Macallan to life. |
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One is to incorporate one or two swivels into the snood or present your bait so that it flutters in the tide rather than spinning like a whirling Dervish. |
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This gap in her memory will continue to leave the event unwitnessed, keeping her fractured self alienated and whirling in a confused temporality, a fractured chronology. |
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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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A long plumb line, emerging from the bottom of the hemisphere, seems to suddenly drop, its tip a smaller, whirling cluster, reminiscent of the pooling and rippling of water. |
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Fix is a solo piece inspired by whirling dervishes and Sufism. |
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Rumi practiced sama by dancing spontaneously, whirling and spinning to express his overwhelming love for God and his intense desire to merge with God. |
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I arrive at the almost empty market place, my mind whirling in confusion. |
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The music rose in a whirling crescendo as the tempo got faster. |
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Maddeningly, her beautiful new State Ballroom, designed for the sedate line dances of a century earlier, was far too narrow for crinolines and whirling couples. |
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With spirits whirling through his Christmas, Dickens still has one hand nudging at your elbow and another just resisting a clutch at a pretty girl's skirt. |
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He is a whirling dynamo when it comes to jumping, spinning kicks. |
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The overwhelming musical score and the too consistent whirling dervish camera only work to expose the film's desperate bid to keep its core vapidity under wraps. |
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But Liberty is always dipping his shoulder, whirling around. |
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Above us, lenticular clouds are forming, whirling in the cool katabatic winds sweeping off the glaciers. |
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But he was a whirling dervish of energy and could outwork his critics. |
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Self-tapping bone screws made by Structure include threads made with the Traub thread whirling attachments. |
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The streets are spotless, and when Mr. Isaias drives through town, it is not in a motorcade with whirling sirens and sunglassed police officers. |
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Back in July, a whirling household appliance caught her by the weave. |
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Certain points, crises, certain feelings, joys, griefs and amazements, when reviewed, must strike us as things wildered and whirling. |
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Red kokowai and suddenly the room fills with the movement of the sea, forests and tupuna sighing and whirling slowly above us. |
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It's all pretty simple. If you want to get hairs out of a carpet, you need a whirling brushbar of death. No amount of suck will do it. |
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The myxosporean parasite that causes whirling disease in trout has a similar life cycle. |
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Above us, lenticular us, lenticular A clouds are forming, whirling in the cool katabatic winds sweeping off the glaciers. |
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His protruberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe. |
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You only have to look around to notice rushaholics whirling by at breakneck speed, whether it's the pizza promised in less than 30 minutes, or the one hour photo developing. |
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Priced at over 230,000 pounds, this bad boy can turn itself into a copter within 10 minutes of hitting the copter button as the blades unfold and starts whirling. |
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How, driving in whiteout above tree line the summit road washed white blue-white gone to swirling powder, we gasp whirling inside the frosted sigh of the earth. |
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The minuet is a genuinely danceable one, Melnikov's fortepiano playing here is splendid, and one can imagine carpets rolled back and couples whirling around the drawing room. |
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