vortical
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“A demented and seductive vortical tension was building in the community. The jitters were setting in,” she writes.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2019
The old man, interpreted with earthy humor and shining grace by Bokuzen Hidari, is the vortical figure in the film.
From Time Magazine Archive
But within it is the vortical power of Dustin, pulling in the laughs, the cast and the audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the contrary, they may and do move both towards the poles and downwards by circuitous and even vortical paths.
From The Energy System of Matter A Deduction from Terrestrial Energy Phenomena by James Weir
But he entertained absurd ideas of the vortical motion of the heavens whisking stones into the sky, there to be ignited by the fiery firmament to form stars.
From History of Astronomy by George Forbes
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