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
But within it is the vortical power of Dustin, pulling in the laughs, the cast and the audience.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old man, interpreted with earthy humor and shining grace by Bokuzen Hidari, is the vortical figure in the film.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gradual establishment of a vortical motion such as we at present see indicated in the spiral nebulæ, is the gradual approach towards motion in one plane.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
Each law of nature has the like universality; eating, sleep or hybernation, rotation, generation, metamorphosis, vortical motion, which is seen in eggs as in planets.
From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
