As she danced, those who watched were swept, almost involuntarily, into her musical dialogue with the drummers.
Watch him sweep no less an individual than Kieran Read with him into a ruck during the first half, thereby taking the All Black No 8 out of play.
His dad started to hit on me, in front of his kid, with the great pick up line: 'I like to watch you sweep, you're very attractive.' (I was also under age and wearing a hairnet).
Five million fewer viewers are watching "sweeps" programming on the big four broadcast networks this year than last year, according to Nielsen Media Research.
She held on for the longest time but the 90 mph winds on top of the rain and fatigue forced her to loosen her grip on her children and she had to watch them get swept away by the water.
"I watched it sweep up cars, houses, everything.
The greatest influence upon his young life to date had been that of James McNeill Whistler, the American expatriate who had demonstrated to his young disciple, between bouts of watching him sweep out the studio, that anything, absolutely anything, could serve as a subject matter for a painting.
Serving for the set, at deuce, he rammed a forehand into the net to face a break point, then allowed Cilic to lure him to net, where he jammed a forehand up the line and watched Cilic sweep it cross court and away to take the game.
On that occasion, Mancini failed to seize the initiative, settling for what he had in the first leg and watching his team swept aside in the second.
In my mind the tale now echoes with more recent tragedies: that of the Staten Island mother who watched her boys swept away by the floods of Hurricane Sandy; the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn.
