These tragic heroes exist on both sides of the aisle, pulling us into a continuing spiral of hardening absolutist positions.
The reality is that the political, social, economic and financial aspects of the crisis all continue spiralling downwards and only a grand political bargain can stem the descent.
Monteith said that he likely would have continued spiraling out of control if not for what he called a "crystallizing event".
"Don't you just love the Constitution?" asked the worried Republican voter, his tone somewhere between crazed and merry at the continuing spiral of developments.
I'm just unwilling to believe that's what God wants for anyone, and was unwilling to continue spiraling further into a disconnected life, feeling abandoned, being discounted.
If the Fed slips and falls, we may be in for either a continuing deflationary spiral, as happened during the Great Depression, or the opposite curse, hyper-inflation, which we had during the 1970s.
The consequence of this policy failure is a continuing downward spiral of more vacant homes, continuing declines in property values and home equity, depressed home construction, and stresses on homeowners who spend every penny of disposable income to keep their houses.
In a sense, the backward-looking trend continues a spiral that Hollywood has been in for years.
"Unrest continued to spiral in Ukraine, and the following month separatists declared a People's Republic of Donetsk.
Yet his Wildcats are one of the most porous defensive teams in the country, continuing a spiral that began last year, when, in a season-ending three-game losing streak, they surrendered 1,670 yards and 163 points to Illinois, Wisconsin and Texas Tech.
