Death swirled around him.
Omar rarely showed himself in public, and rumours of his death swirled for a long time.
So when the tidal wave of Helen's death swirled through our lives it was natural to find ourselves in this place of sanctuary soon afterwards.
Taylor became a peripatetic figure associated with a raft of musicians including the Scottish vocalist Frankie Miller, Pete Way of UFO and Mick Farren of the Deviants, while rumours of his death swirled around the internet and were recycled in Motörhead documentaries like The Guts And The Glory.
The waves of death swirled about me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.
From Heath Ledger's final interview, the New York Times The days following Heath Ledger's death have swirled with speculation, with tales of hard drugs and prescription pills, of anti-depressants and sleeping tablets.
Except, it being Morrissey, the lyrics were a little more florid: "Young bones groan/ And the rocks below/ Say, 'Throw your skinny body down, son.'" Marr's music was a racing heart, a pulse quickened by the prospect of death, yet swirling like the sea beating against the rocks below.
As their communities mourn their deaths, debate swirls over the continuing outbreaks of violence in Israel.
Marilyn Monroe often sat up front, and current members of the hotel staff say she overdosed on sleeping pills here two weeks before her death, amid a swirl of rumors of sex and foul play.
In his wonderful new production for the Met he taps into the emotions -- jealousy, yearning, fear of death -- that swirl below the surface of this farcical tale about a miserly bachelor who foolishly decides to take a young wife and disinherit his shiftless nephew.
