Atwood's narrative sometimes seems overstuffed, but the novel affords an arresting perspective on the confluence of information, freedom, and security in the modern age.
The right for Indigenous Australians to vote federally resulted from a confluence of increasingly vocal Aboriginal activism and an embarrassing international perspective that viewed Australia's "colour bar" in the same light as segregation in America and apartheid in South Africa.
Sissons helpfully provides perspective on that always turbulent spot at the confluence of politics and tourism while providing a compelling picture of a place we want to go.
It is an expensive confluence of problems.
My purchase followed a confluence of events.
Jarvis faces a bizarre confluence of events.
It's a confluence of things.
"It's a unique confluence of events.
Together they found a confluence of interests.
But the current confluence of challenging events is hardly new.
Given the confluence of oddball events, it only figured.
