It has its diffuse moments, to be sure; but its alternation of turbulent intense passages and moments of quiet reflection are difficult to resist.

A turbulent passage, with rolls on the floor, symbolized the destruction of "old ideas through the purification of fire," as the program note stated.

And that answer was simply not good enough, not if she hoped to find a way to lead her colony through this turbulent passage.

Oh, it was terrifying, this journey of life, this turbulent passage through days and nights, never stopping, never knowing what it meant, only that you must cling, cling and never let go!

The following year, with turbulent passages through all the major labels in Brazil, Maia released again through Seroma the album Nuvens, which flopped due to inefficient distribution.

The turbulent passages of the music inspire an image of wildness that is nevertheless under control.

His schools, of 300 to 1,000 students each, would strive to be more intimate places where students and teachers know one another, where teen-agers going through their inevitably turbulent passages can find caring guides.

About dawn, they sailed outside the island, by a narrow and turbulent passage; for the tide was still falling.

A four-movement work, its impulse is basically lyrical, even if that lyricism must occasionally strive through turbulent, anxious passages.

There is much throwing up of arms before the two other women are lifted and partnered in a brief turbulent passage.