She came in with a rush — books dropped on the bench so that they scattered on the floor, scarf snatched off so that her hair sprang out in a tangle, and at the same time, it seemed, boots kicked loose and sent skittering across the floor.
She came in with a rush books dropped on the bench so that they scattered on the floor, scarf snatched off so that her hair sprang out in a tangle, and at the same time, it seemed, boots kicked loose and sent skittering across the floor.
Faced with overwhelming social injustice or with recurring insults of a more biologic nature microbial resistance to drugs, mutating viruses, emerging prions, migrating hazards we may at times seem little more than hapless marionettes, caught in a degrading tangle at the foot of a large set.
But this conviction has also created problems: "I got in a terrible tangle at one point with the coaching routes across Norfolk, because I was trying to work out how the characters would have got from the hall to Yarmouth.
— ANDREW DAS A tangle with Subotic at the top of the area and he crumbles like a cookie.
IN Milton Resnick's living quarters, a spare cube built over a soaring, two-story studio space in a former synagogue on Eldridge Street in Manhattan, the monastic iron bed, as narrow as a child's cot, is unmade, a tangle of sheets at the headboard.
In the sundered hotel lobby, those who would die and those who would escape spent the next 29 minutes clawing toward one another, tearing across a tangle of rubble, at first speaking on radios, then coming so close they could hand a flashlight back and forth through pockets of debris.
"I wasn't performing before I came here," he acknowledged between sips of beer at the lounge, his Apple Power Mac G4 in front of him and a tangle of wires at his feet that connect the laptop to the club's sound system.
Karangahape Rd is a tangle of contradictions: at once the domain of young artists and the playground of developers, whose divergent visions compete for cultural hegemony on this storied stretch of Auckland.
In the mid 1960s, marriage became an object of both racial and economic policy when Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then assistant secretary of labor to Lyndon Johnson, argued that black poverty was caused by "a tangle of pathology" at the center of which was low marriage rates.
