| But aswim in the overinflated slapstick that is Mr. Brooks's gleeful preference, there's something askew in his performance. |
| Audiences, heads aswim with new names and dates, might note with surprise how little light the 12-hour day has shed on Stoppard's political views. |
| They have implied that my generation is aswim in a sea of branding unimagined by preceding generations. |
| Some nights, for no discernible reason, as if some wildly infectious desperation were aswim in the air, a feeling of panic would reign. |
| Fellow-viewers silhouetted behind the scrims — aswim in deeply layered, peaceable torrents of sheep and geometry — make membership in humanity seem a superb idea. |
| Mr. Roush, a former history professor who left academia to immerse himself in auto arcana, spent much of his life aswim in this circumscribed pool of distinguished automobiles. |
