A few feet away, under a swaying and dripping tree, a tiny unfledged bird was helplessly twitching in a puddle.
Mr. Link's music is more of a mishmash than a fusion of classical chorales, down-home American country style, French music hall and Viennese waltzes, under a swaying Jerry Herman influence.
It seems an eternity ago, though it was just a few seasons back, that a movie as sexually detonating as Luis Buñuel's "Belle du Jour" held fashion under so powerful a sway.
The lateral movement induced by a swaying fiber under dual-phase flow did not substantially contribute to the magnitude of shear force at the fiber surface.
A tent had been turned into a makeshift church, where Orthodox priests chanted prayers and burned incense; parishioners who could not fit inside stood outside under a canopy, swaying slightly, their heads tilted forward in silence.
Voichita, meanwhile, has taken up residence in a convent, under the sway of a priest who resembles, in Alina's eyes, a malign and charismatic sorcerer.
It all fed a narrative that the president was being pushed around in a region under the sway of a resurgent China.
On Monday, at the start of the second part, to determine whether he is to be sentenced to death, his lawyers worked to humanize him — and to portray him as a follower under the sway of a partner in crime, the co-defendant who is to be tried later, Joshua Komisarjevsky.
She is beautiful, but she is not twig-thin; she lives outside London rather than in Los Angeles; and most of all, she has turned down big-budget superstar roles in favor of idiosyncratic movies like "Holy Smoke," in which she played a woman under the sway of an Indian guru, or "Quills," her latest film, which opens on Nov. 22 and which chronicles the last days of the Marquis de Sade.
In "The Night Stalker," he tells how Mr. Ramirez suffered from undiagnosed epilepsy as a boy and fell under the sway of a disturbed cousin — but also recreates a ghastly scene in which Mr. Ramirez tried to cut out a woman's heart and then removed her eyes, saving them in a jewelry box.
But, coherent argument or not, you can well imagine their record company's delight at the news that MGMT were making an album under the sway of Dan Treacy, a lavishly gifted songwriter cursed with an unerring appetite for self-sabotage.
