It might seem that this is a very feeble apparatus with which to construct institutional structures; surely the whole thing could come tumbling down at any moment.
It is thus significant that these instabilities resurface at a moment of dramatic tension, and that their transformation, as heightened by tumbling melodies and fluctuating tempi, highlights her distress.
They learn to sit independently and to use their stable torso as a base of support for reaching in many areas of the space without tumbling over.
These techniques effectively slow the fast relaxation of magnetization that occurs for large, slowly tumbling molecules in solution, preventing the broadening of resonance lines beyond detection.
I have been unable to mention, much less do justice to, all the many themes and arguments that come tumbling off the pages of this book.
It just sort of kept tumbling out with those chords.
It can be subject to transformations, such as rotation, tilting, tumbling or mirroring, using similar mathematical operations to those used to manipulate a graphical object.
The words come tumbling out, with the odd pause as he searches for a more exact or colourful phrase.