"I feel like this world is spiralling into self-absorption, isolation and disconnection," Sharp says.
It isn't just our genital grooming choices which are spiralling into the extreme.
The big southern European countries, Spain and Italy, battered by austerity, are spiralling into recession.
Instead, I have found myself spiralling into hysteria, driven slowly mad by the New York subway.
Mass redundancies are just one of the harsh consequences of an economy spiralling into recession.
By midweek, Apple seemed to be spiralling into a publicity black hole.
"Argentina is spiralling into chaos," writes Hal Singer, managing director at Navigant Economics, in Forbes this week.
It was ill-conceived, unplanned and only just escaped from spiralling into an even more devastating civil war.
Hugo, his older brother, now runs Museu CR7, the Ronaldo museum, in Funchal but, at 20, was spiralling into alcoholism.
In a way, it was a prelapsarian age before the advent of the internet, which sent circulations spiralling into freefall.
A missed telephone call, an unanswered email, or an offhand text may send you spiralling into distress and anger.
