Whirlpool in example sentence

As a result, just as Odysseus was forced to choose between facing Scylla, a six-headed monster, and Charybdis, a deadly whirlpool, in Homer’s Odyssey, the Fed must take action knowing that whichever course it chooses could have serious adverse consequences – and thus will probably be considered the wrong move.

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Your encouraging whispers in my whirlpool of despair, holding me and heaving me to shores of sanity, to live again and to love again."

Centuries later, the philosopher Rene Descartes proposed that the universe was a series of whirlpools, which he called vortices, and that each star was at the center of a whirlpool.

A whirlpool, for Steve Grand, is a thing with just as much reality as a rock.

Granted, the one dream sequence the kid had when he jumped on the bed and it suddenly became a whirlpool of blood was very nicely done and would have worked very well in a movie that was supposed to be pure horror, instead of one that lists comedy as its first genre.

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