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

But, however estimated, this involution seems to afford a measure of the air and vapor which finds its way to a higher elevation by means of the vortical movement in the body of the storm.”

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden