Sentence examples for fierce current from inspiring English sources

When Judith longs for glamour and excitement it is "not superficial, it is a fierce current".

My hands burn with cold, but, because there is a fierce current running, I find no opportunity to sit and warm them in my armpits; we must paddle constantly, even when there are no waves, just to stay in the same place off the beach.

The drift seems clear and risks turning into a fierce current with Munster going into the game without Peter O'Mahony – recovering after surgery to his left shoulder – to take on Steffon Armitage, the undisputed king of the art of turning apparent chubbiness into the most perfectly sculpted shape for rugby's breakdown.

And while admissions officers are having a hard enough time swimming in such deep applicant pools, they are also fighting a fierce current, one being churned by the rewriting of decades-old affirmative action policies at state universities in California, Texas, Florida and Washington, where critics have put deans on notice that they believe whites have been treated unfairly.

A fierce current of social conservatism over the past few decades has hardened what were once relatively permissive attitudes and cast belly dancers as relics of Egypt's "impure past".

There are some fierce currents.

The Deer Park, at its tip, is separated from Midland Island and Skomer by the fierce currents of Jack Sound.

So far this year, 34 mystery boats have arrived, driven by fierce currents and a strong prevailing southwesterly wind.

Four cousins wading in knee-deep water at a beach in Far Rockaway, Queens, were swept away yesterday by the fierce currents that have killed so many swimmers there.

New Orleans is the fierce currents of the Mississippi River and the lazy meandering water of Bayou St .John, the centuries-old live oaks that spread their branches to form a canopy over St. Charles Avenue and the swampy lagoons of City Park.

A14 NEW YORK/REGION B1-7 Deadly Currents Claim Three Young Lives Four cousins wading in knee-deep water at a beach in Far Rockaway, Queens, were swept away by fierce currents while their uncle and scores of other people watched helplessly from shore.