Then, around 1986, the screw of history took another turn.
Notes are first articulated, softly, by tapping the string with the screw of the bow.
What you are doing is depicting the right-handed screw of DNA.
Reflecting on the nature of evil, she concludes, "victory depends on only another turn on the screw of human virtue".
These elements are all presented with, at most, a quarter-turn of the screw of the conventional.
While turning the screw of authoritarian parliamentary and electoral reforms, future lower taxes and liberalisations are promised to compensate for public cuts and to attract foreign investments.
The term for this justification is "theodicy," which nowadays seems a very old-fashioned exercise in turning around and around the stripped screw of theological scholastics.
It's new material that seeks its own hazy torpor; "Medicine Drank" pays tribute to DJ Screw of Houston and his cough-syrup inspiration.
Holland skilfully turns the screw of tension as the last months of peace slip away, and his male characters realise that they will be required to put their lives on the line for their country.
His frenetic activity — all those books, all those addresses, all those binges — seems in the retelling one long escape, an anesthetic administered to a peculiarly American pain, just before the last screw of his talent could be turned.
Clegg had no need to fall in with the vindictive spirit of the bedroom tax, the sale of swaths more social housing, or the ever-tightening screw of work capability tests, as food banks opened everywhere.
