Every summer, there is a high tide of reporting on the doings out there -- the legal wrangling, the real-estate prices, the frenzied leisure of the super-rich -- mixed with wondering whether the Hamptons are finally over.
Aretha is falling in intellectual – and possibly other sorts of – love with her economics teacher and Germaine is still gloriously, unstoppably Germaine – an "overadrenalised simpleton" sweeping all before her on a tide of hormones, enthusiasm and widely reported bodily secretions.
A tide gauge in Ocracoke Island reported a tide of 1.5 feet (0.45 meter) above normal.
The commercial real estate market, hit hard by a tide of business failures, remains soft, the report said, leaving agents with a large excess supply.
A tide of humanity is suffering horribly.
It was like a tide of humanity.
The reality is a tide of human misery.
Mitt Romney's religion generated a tide of commentary.
On those evenings we moved on a tide of anticipation.
He came into office on a tide of euphoria.
