Until publishers understand this, their unsold titles will continue to wash over them in "startling waves."

It washed against her in waves of impenetrable silence.

The silence and sunlight washed over him in green-gold waves.

Afterward as she followed him through the woods, those colors seemed to wash over her in waves.

He realized his hands were shaking, fear washing through him in great relentless waves.

There was brilliant sunlight as they left the city; the heat washed over them in slippery waves.

And then, as their beauty began to wash over me in waves, I relented.

She laughed, the erotic sound of it washing over him in sensual waves.

His gut clenched, heat washing over him in waves.

The pain of it washed in gentle waves up her arm, burning no longer.