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
The stranger is swallowed up in the vortical suction of the city and is soon carried away in the maelstrom of its strenuous life.
From Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly
Adj. rotating &c. v.; rotary, rotary; circumrotatory†, trochilic†, vertiginous, gyratory; vortical, vorticose†.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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