All took their turn swimming against a vicious riptide and either washed ashore on Reality Island or drifted further out to sea.
Yes, this tale of urban manners is familiar Wolfian territory a city on steroids, a riptide of racial politics, a bonfire on the beach; but then if you can't stand the heat, you shouldn't stay in Miami!!!
The boat shook and shuddered as it steamed out to a cluster of four islets some way out from the main island.Around the islets, a brown riptide; above, as we approached, a swirling ball of greater-crested terns and black-tailed gulls, with Swinhoe's egrets orbiting around the outside.
At the beach, she and her mother were in the sea when they got caught in a riptide.
The term riptide is often used but is a misnomer, the currents being related in no way to tides.
However, even when Scaring had cornered Bieniek into admitting that, yes, he knew about the cell towers and, yes, had read about the case and seen reports of it on television, Scaring must have been aware of the countervailing riptide taking Mallayev out to sea, and Borukhova with him.
Since then, though, some stealth riptide had carried me away from myself.
Bill Martel, an international-security expert at the Fletcher School, at Tufts University, told me that Holder, having been impervious to the shifting public mood, had been sucked into "a political riptide".
At what point we realize that disaster awaits, and that these contented lives, like all lives, can be caught in a riptide, is hard to specify.
Every canonical figure on a ten-greatest list is, however deserving, the chance beneficiary of a capricious riptide that disperses some bodies of work, smashes others or pulls them under the waves, and sweeps a handful, intact, to the shore of the next century.
"Some of them are sucked under by the riptide of repression, some of them bob to the surface against all odds, and maybe one or two find a way to fly away".
