Uprush

If we feel sexually attracted to the same gender, we convince ourselves this uprush of inner feeling—often rooted in something gone wrong in our formative years—is actually genetic, or God-ordained, or the expression of who we “really” are. ❋ DAVID KUPELIAN (2010)

When I have studied or talked with seekers who have had this variety of the spiritual experience, they have told me of a joy that passes understanding, an immense surge of creativity, an instant uprush of kindness and tolerance that makes them impassioned champions for the betterment of all, bridge-builders, magnets for solutions, peacemakers, pathfinders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have heard parts of the opera in workshop performances over the years; in fact, I feel our friendship was sealed when I heard its lush opening in a Manhattan performance space several years ago, and thrilled to the uprush of music. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An uprush of air makes the curtains billow inward. ❋ Cristina García (2010)

She hadn't known she'd be able to sense it, but the keystone was part of her, formed of her magic and linked to her, and so she'd felt that first fierce uprush of energy as the keystone began to give up its spell. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

He was passing within fifty feet of the creature, and despite the abnormal and curiously detached psychological state in which he had been ever since leaving Jupiter, he felt a sudden uprush of excitement, wonder-and sheer personal pride. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was heavy, this vapour, heavier than the densest smoke, so that, after the first tumultuous uprush and outflow of its impact, it sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and watercourses even as I have heard the carbonic-acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)

The coiling uprush of smoke streamed across the sky, and through the rare tatters of that red canopy, remote as though they belonged to another universe, shone the little stars. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

They came down towards him, fitfully, eddyingly, and passed aside out of the uprush from the fan. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A second rose still nearer us, a third, and a fourth, and then a great uprush of dust, ❋ Herbert George (2006)

So, hard upon the uprush of the first German air-fleet, these ❋ Herbert George (2006)

He ran his fingers along the strings, and Eric sensed, as he was meant to, a faint uprush of Power. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)

The prisoners clog-danced and cheered and yodled and wrestled with one another in a sudden uprush of animal spirits. ❋ Unknown (2003)

At her name the inner stiffening, the resistance, with which his mind had approached her, yielded; and in its place came a warm uprush of feeling. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She saw him on the outward voyage, eternally pacing the deck, a prey to blackest anxiety — and the last thought of self went under, in a fierce uprush of pity for him, so solitary, so self — centred, so self-tormented. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Sleep, I say, and feel within me uprush some wilder, darker violence, so that I would fell down with one blow any intruder, any snatcher, who should break into this room and wake the sleeper. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It had not been any coincidence of temperament or sympathies — by rights, all the rights of their different natures, they had not belonged together — any more than it had been a mere blind uprush of sensual desire. ❋ Unknown (2003)