maelstrom• Once inside, she slid the bolt, leaning thankfully against the door, a maelstrom of emotions fighting for supremacy.• That way, every drop goes through the magneticmaelstrom.• Holder finds himself marooned in the maelstrom, under attack for giving advice he never fully considered.• One mistake would spill me into the maelstrom on my right.• At every stage new groups of showmensprang up out of the maelstrom of society.• The maelstrom against which my sister grows to be a toddler.• Featuring prominently in the centre of this maelstrom was the toweringfigure of Richard Baxter.