Soon, it will have performed three hundred and sixty-five rotations on its canted axis — not quite as many as it once managed (growth bands in corals tell us that, four hundred million years ago, there were four hundred and ten days in the year), but still a respectably brisk spin.
Soon, it will have performed three hundred and sixty-five rotations on its canted axis not quite as many as it once managed (growth bands in corals tell us that, four hundred million years ago, there were four hundred and ten days in the year), but still a respectably brisk spin.
In spare, declarative prose, Galgut spins a brisk and bracing story, but he's also in pursuit of something murkier: the double-edged nature of doing good in a land where "the past has only just happened".
Whether it's a brisk stroll around the block, or a spin class at your local gym, get moving to feel calmer.
They are active on Twitter and Facebook, and run a brisk press operation that is quick to spin attacks as victories and denounce statements by President Hamid Karzai as farcical.
In his "Anima Animus," accompanied by a brisk Ezio Bosso violin concerto, dancers flew in from the wings, spun by invisible currents; they gathered in intimate small-scale whirlwinds.
Laraman came closest, helping to add a brisk 51 for the seventh wicket before attempting to drive Stuart MacGill, misreading the spin and edging to slip.
After a brisk trot through a few other topics, Hoffman said, "I've started spinning up on the whole A.I. and ethics thing".
What ensues is a brisk, well-mounted children's fantasy, with Cornish giving the story an entertainingly apocalyptic spin.
I am a brisk batchelor,... ".
