The "death to the dictator" that surged from her into the night was of rare ferocity.
Both revolutions were driven by demons or deities that surged from the lower depths of hell or society to torture their victims and to drive them mad.
So is Sun in Your Eyes, an epic clatter that surges from nothing to a piano ballad to a vast climax, underpinned by blaring, valedictory synths, then back to nothing again.
At 1pm, when the moment of reflection made its way back to us, I was impressed by the totality of the silence, but then when that moment terminated in a roar that surged from the front of the line in midtown, around the Park and three miles up the canyon of Central Park West to our position on 84th Street, I felt a cathartic surge: We can do this.
At a briefing on Wednesday evening for officials of the Army Corps of Engineers, a staff hydrologist, Maxwell E. Agnew, noted that the surge from Isaac was not much smaller than that of Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm when it slammed into Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2005, whose surge had a catastrophic effect on the metro area's flawed flood walls and levees.
She lifted sentences like "It is the function of the cortex — and, in particular, those parts of the cortex beneath the forehead, known as the frontal lobes — to modify the impulses that surge up from within the brain, to provide judgment, to organize behavior and decision-making, to learn and adhere to rules of everyday life".
Oliveira's textured, luminous tableaux and the performances of Chopin by the pianist Maria João Pires on the soundtrack complete the mood of exotic, eternal mystery that surges up from the modern, practical town.
Smith's piece is just another riff on the newly resurgent "what's wrong with kids" meme that surges up from the recently young who, in the face of rapid change, may suddenly feel old.
Fuel economy is competitive, but the driver must be aware that each surge from the turbo takes a bite out of the mileage.
