Sentence examples for on a whirlpool from inspiring English sources

But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation.

The waves of lulling sound, sometimes in counterpoint between male and female voices, lap against the shiplike set and push it on a whirlpool course.

Such sentiments are nothing new but are part of a tradition that can be traced back to Keynes and his warnings about enterprise becoming the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation.

''Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise,'' he wrote in "The General Theory.'' "But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation.'' A few years later, when he turned his attention to international economics, he made the same distinction.

He wrote at the time that speculation isn't necessarily bad, but "the situation is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation".

At the climax, two vessels get their rigging entwined on the rim of a whirlpool, which sounds impressive, but give me a hot bath, an open plughole, and a pair of rubber ducks and I could have laid out the situation more efficiently.

Our data show that even staying in the vicinity of a whirlpool spa or walking in a hall where an operating whirlpool spa is on display may be important risk factors for Legionnaires' disease.

Among the white newcomers are the tenants in Esther Sirol's two renovated rooming houses -- one has a whirlpool -- on 101st Street, including Julie Feuerstein, a daughter of Lutheran missionaries, and Muriel Sainato, a 26-year-old actress from Florida.

I ended the driving day (Ojai to Avila Beach, 139 miles) in another hot tub, this one a private whirlpool that sat on the deck of my enormous suite at the Sycamore Mineral Springs hotel and spa near the town of Avila Beach, eight miles southwest of San Luis Obispo.

Plus, on the balcony of my apartment is a whirlpool bath, so on my last morning I sit in the steaming waters while snowflakes fall around me.

A northeast-facing bedroom on the main level has a whirlpool tub.