heaving

Or what it feels like to ride the slow heaving of the ocean, pulsing like the heartbeat of the world.

An antidote to shoutier, perhaps less truly confident cities, there is an old joke that the local tourist board motto is: "Don't tell anyone or the place will be heaving."

Shopping areas, including the market of Addisu Gebeya, were heaving in Addis Ababa on New Year's Eve, despite the rain - as people rushed to prepare for the celebrations.

Then Brooks shifts into the light thriller she’s teased since the opening notes of heaving, scratchy violins.

“Everything,” El Coronel said, heaving a sigh of relief, “is calm.”