And the ambiguous eroticism of the friendship remains oddly flat, although on Saturday night Ms. Danes's performance did hint at a suppressed emotional maelstrom.

The resurgence of this emotional maelstrom had a violent impact on him.

Why can't ballets offer surrealistic voyages into dream worlds or expressionist descents into emotional maelstroms?

By cutting between parallel action, Peckinpah and Mr. Lombardo stretched time and trapped the audience in an emotional maelstrom.

The emotional maelstrom over the Middle East had exhausted me.

Spurred out of his emotional maelstrom only by the instincts of self-preservation, he desperately parried Gaethaa's maddened attack.

Speaker to Colonies Daes en-toned in High Vynsharau, oblivious to the emotional maelstrom that surrounded him.

Some women can turn a room into an emotional maelstrom, simply by entering it, and this quality is called "provocative."

In these eerie tales, the reader is drawn into the emotional maelstroms of the young women protagonists rather than held at a chilly distance.

So, alternately accusing and exonerating, Vivian had spent the recent hours gradually working herself out of the emotional maelstrom and into something approaching calm.