welter

Yes, they will include the nightmare of college applications as well as the ongoing pressure of AP classes, basketball, community service and the inevitable welter of extracurriculars — as students are continually told, senior year should be fun, but they’re still building those all important “résumés.”

Anyone who has bought into the Republican condemnation of Democrats as the “godless” left was no doubt surprised by the welter of references to many faiths.

In 2020, Buttigieg ran for president, and as the first out gay Democratic candidate for the office, he faced down the predictable welter of homophobic attacks with a dismissive ease that underlined the hateful absurdity of such things.

Meanwhile, a steady rain of video content soaked every media platform available: trailers, clips and photos, obviously, plus a welter of behind-the-scenes clips — always fun to see wig maintenance and actors trying to stay warm in period costumes — and every sort of interview imaginable with the large and winning cast.

One need take only a cursory glance around social media to find a welter of opinions promoting, decrying, or mocking a set of social arrangements that is currently taking up considerable space in the public imagination.