turn of the wheel

Visualize for a moment the worst drivers you’ve encountered on the road lately, the ones who swerve in and out of lanes and can’t be bothered to use a blinker, the ones who treat I-10 like Texas Motor Speedway, the ones who can kill you and your loved ones in the back seat with one errant turn of the wheel.

The humor, affection, and charisma are all part of the cycle of abuse, because after the outburst of violence or cruelty comes the abject apologies, the love-bombing campaign, the free-spirited sense of adventure, in order to keep everyone close enough for the next turn of the wheel.

With every turn of the wheel, Dicey felt her stomach loosen and her muscles relax.

It's a device that was used to good effect in Kim Stanley Robinson's 2002 “The Years of Rice and Salt,” a novel that spans millennia, tracing the successive reincarnations of three characters who meet in the bardo between lives and scheme to improve their karma on the next turn of the wheel.

Indeed, while evolution is undoubtedly positive for the league, it will only have the desired effect if everyone is carried along with the turn of the wheel.