All 6 Uses of
torrent
in
Into the Wild
- The prospect of fording this latte-colored torrent discourages most people from traveling any farther.
p. 11.6torrent = overwhelming amount of rapidly moving water
- This lower stretch of the river, from Hoover Dam to the gulf, has little in common with the unbridled torrent that explodes through the Grand Canyon, some 250 miles upstream from Topock.
p. 32.7
- But we little know until tried how much of the uncontrollable there is in us, urging across glaciers and torrents, and up dangerous heights, let the judgement forbid as it may.
p. 145.1torrents = rapids and fast-moving rivers
- To McCandless's inexperienced eye, there was nothing to suggest that two months hence, as the glaciers and snowfields at the Teklanika's headwater thawed in the summer heat, its discharge would multiply nine or ten times in volume, transforming the river into a deep, violent torrent that bore no resemblance to the gentle brook he'd blithely waded across in April.
p. 163.2 *torrent = overwhelming amount of rapidly moving water
- Attempting to swim the numbingly cold torrent or even to paddle some sort of improvised raft across seemed too risky to consider.
p. 170.4
- The slender tops fairly flapped and swished in the passionate torrent, bending and swirling backward and forward, round and round, tracing indescribable combinations of vertical and horizontal curves, while I clung with muscles firm braced, like a bobolink on a reed.
p. 182.9
Definition:
an overwhelming amount -- especially of quickly moving water