But this tangle of issues constitutes, Gardiner argues, only one strand in the skein of quandaries that confronts us.
In it he shows how the skein of shipping routes on the Selden map were connected with the rise of London as a global city.
In Beijing, the municipal government is seeking to place cameras in all entertainment venues, adding to the skein of 300,000 cameras that were installed here for the 2008 Olympics.
Engaging and exhausting in equal helpings, she never quite pierces the skein of remembrance.
A simple 1951 ink drawing by Pollock predicts "Blue Poles (No. 11, 1952)," his last monumental painting, in which figurelike poles emerge out of the skein of drips.
You have to listen up and listen hard and, as in needlepoint, weave a pattern out of the skein of yarns.
She is adopted and just beginning to pluck at the skein of secrets obscuring her origins.
How loosely can she braid the skein of connections and still have something that hangs together?
A player shoots until he misses; the skein of successful shots is called a break.
But he could not wholly avoid the skein of hard historical and political issues facing the church there.
