| Some nights, for no discernible reason, as if some wildly infectious desperation were aswim in the air, a feeling of panic would reign. |
| Mr. Roush, a former history professor who left academia to immerse himself in auto arcana, spent much of his life aswim in this circumscribed pool of distinguished automobiles. |
| The iPad user, as we meet him, is a man alone, aswim in pictures of kids. |
| Fellow-viewers silhouetted behind the scrims — aswim in deeply layered, peaceable torrents of sheep and geometry — make membership in humanity seem a superb idea. |
| But aswim in the overinflated slapstick that is Mr. Brooks's gleeful preference, there's something askew in his performance. |
| And those eyes, those large, dreaming eyes aswim with tears and hued like richest lapis-lazuli, oh! |
