Onrush

Almost, when he knew the blow had started and just ere the edge of steel bit the flesh and nerves it seemed that he gazed upon the serene face of the Medusa, Truth - And, simultaneous with the bite of the steel on the onrush of the dark, in a flashing instant of fancy, he saw the vision of his head turning slowly, always turning, in the devil-devil house beside the breadfruit tree. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By the time you read this, the two days of riots I'm referring to might have swollen into a major crisis -- or they might have been subsumed and forgotten in the din and onrush of mayhem in Libya and Syria, radiation in Japan or whatever's next. ❋ Ethan Casey (2011)

In Inertia, a young woman lies on top of a bullet train carriage, her dress ballooning against the wind, in a blatantly Freudian onrush of high-speed elation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Don't, though, whatever you do, call this apparent onrush of girliness feminine. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Donna Rifkind praised Julie Orringer's The Invisible Bridge Vintage, $15.95, a fictional "account of the very particular way in which Hungary's Jewish population was decimated by the Holocaust," for its "brilliant use of a deliberately old-fashioned realism to define individual fates engulfed by history's deadly onrush." ❋ Nora Krug (2011)

To stem this onrush of disastrous improvisations, conservatives need every resource of mind and heart, every good argument, every creative alternative and every bit of compassionate sympathy for the distress that is pushing Americans in the wrong direction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because when George Bush got elected the second time you really felt helpless, and then with Obama there was this onrush of hope and ambitiousness, and then... we've been kind of disappointed. ❋ Ben Evans (2011)

There was a time when I was deeply enamored of Bateson's approach, but I have come to view it as somewhat puerile (but maybe that's just the onrush of mortality, or early Alzheimer's, or both). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Paul's victory amounted to a direct rebuke of McConnell's status as the godfather of Kentucky politics and showed that even the most powerful Republican in the Senate can't stop the onrush of the "tea partiers." ❋ Unknown (2010)

The onrush of oil into the Gulf has continued for over a month now, and while BP is still trying to staunch both the spill and media spin, the company is losing control over the information that's reaching the public. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Despite the capping procedure, it became clear this week that the onrush of oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon rig will not cease any time soon. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This account of the way Hungary's Jewish population was decimated by the Holocaust makes brilliant use of deliberately old-fashioned realism to define individual fates engulfed by history's deadly onrush. ❋ Post (2010)

If it's been a tough few days and words of encouragement are much needed, a post on Care Pages, a CaringBridge online journal or a Facebook page can bring an instant onrush of well wishes from far-flung friends. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lost as we all are, we can understand why some retreat into fundamentalisms that provide archaic certainties, holding houses of containment before the onrush of new realities. ❋ Dr. Jean Houston (2010)

Now, as I stood sweatily on the curb, it was a continuous onrush of motorcycles, with a few score cars and trucks thrown in. ❋ Unknown (2010)

   And so to witness him transformed upon his return trip east was, perhaps, unaccompanied by an onrush of pity, save in its most abstract application. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This latest salvo will soon be forgotten in the onrush of the next season's publications. ❋ Unknown (2010)