Yet American minimalism, isolationism, realism, mind-our-own-business-ism—whatever you want to call it—is cyclical.
A patchwork of building shells and cratered streets, the city tells of a cyclical war, still smoldering.
In Middlesex history is not just determinative; it is also cyclical.
But the idea that tax reform will jump-start an economy suffering from the after-effects of a cyclical downturn is nonsense.
We are seeing CO2 going up—it is a measurable trend, not a cyclical phenomenon.
Beard, who attaches importance to the persistence of a cyclical period in gestation, calls it the muffled striking of the clock.
A vast preponderance of all the action that takes place around us is cyclical action.
If the straight line be assumed as the positive, the cyclical is then the negation of the straight.
Physical science does not confuse these; it never mistakes nor denies specific function, organic progression, cyclical growth.
It was at one time supposed that the course of the disease was cyclical, with a return at intervals of about one hundred years.
