But per White’s norm, each is so clearly delineated and well-cast that the largesse never gets confusing or overwhelming as the stories intertwine and coil and slither around each other like a nest of snakes.
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Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2025
The heat pump compressor moves refrigerant through the coils to capture or release heat.
The areas had large pieces of Middle and Late Iron Age pottery, as well as other cooking vessels and a spindle whorl.
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Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2025
The self-flagellation is uncomfortable and dark, and the instrumental’s whorl of warped voices, sax melodies, and bass lines intensifies the feeling that he is trapped within his choices.
17.
Feeling anxious or unhappy isn’t ideal at any point in the day, but having a negativity spiral while trying to sleep can have unique consequences for health.
—
Hannah Singleton,
Health,
20 Feb. 2025
Both similarly cite arguments about sanctity of life, ethics and a spiral toward possible euthanasia.
Temperatures swung back up to 52 degrees by noon on Jan. 25, an hour before the spire fell.
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John Penney,
Hartford Courant,
26 Jan. 2025
The playing surface is worn, bicycles are propped up around its perimeter and the spire of a small local church pokes over the top of the surrounding buildings.
There was no one else on the strand, the surf a sickly yellow foam bubbling between the matted black hanks of seaweed heaped on the beach.
—
Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
21 Apr. 2022
In one of its spreads, a burst of light on muddy asphalt abuts a jumble of walls and fences, rain pounding a limousine, and a spatter of paint with a hank of rope.
—
Leo Rubinfien,
The New York Review of Books,
11 Feb. 2021
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