One might have been looking out a London window onto a street crowded with workers hurrying home, eddying around a sari-clad woman slowly returning from the shops to cook the family dinner.
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For Saramago it is the scrappily loving human spirit _ eddying, pushing forward, pushed back, persistent _ that wears at the varied stone structures he devises to represent society's oppressions.
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The tower's ability to stand up to the wind is enhanced by sky gardens which have been designed to dampen wind eddying about the tower minimizing the negative effects of wind action on the tower.
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That's because, she said, the word " hula " comes from the way the ocean hits the pali ( cliff ) and its constant movement in and out, the ebbing and eddying.
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Harry begins shouting in the Old Tongue of the Hillfolk, and Gonturan throws off sparkling, eddying waves of light which cause the mountainside to shear and break away, rumbling into the valley below to crush Thurra and his army.
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Other than a flock of now-retired Balanchine ballerinas waiting in the wings, the candidate pool is, if not drying up, then certainly eddying and grown roilsome in ways the Kennedy Center trustees aren't likely to feel comfortable with.
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Just use your imagination, " the well-remembered voice flowed, eddying around the chandeliers, between the glowing stained glass windows, shedding itself over the polished coffin at the front of the church, where a single tall candle burned.
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As for U . S . News & World Report ( Sept . 22 ), it's less a case of rolling along than eddying in place, and this week's lead story does its best to prove that still waters need not run deep.
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One only object rears itself above the eddying waters; this is the mast of a vessel long since wrecked in attempting to cross the bar, and it still stands, a dismal witness of the destruction that has been, and a boding prophet of that which is to come.
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But in the fast-eddying politics that developed in the aftermath of the results, the focus was on regional groups that entered the election as " poll allies " of one of the three main power blocs, only to find that the inconclusive outcome left them as potential kingmakers.
