Noun
A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway.
Also Fig. ; as, a maelstrom of vice.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring. Andrew S. Tanenbaum
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all. Harold Pinter
I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture. Marlon Brando
Thus ends the voyage under the seas. What passed during that night - how the boat escaped from the eddies of the maelstrom - how Ned Land, Conseil, and myself ever came out of the gulf, I cannot tell. Jules Verne
The Russo-Japanese War now gives to all an awareness that even war and peace in Europe – its destiny – isn't decided between the four walls of the European concert, but outside it, in the gigantic maelstrom of world and colonial politics. Rosa Luxemburg
Out of the maelstrom of happenings we abstract certain bits to attend to. We snapshot these bits by naming them. Then we begin responding to the names as if they are the bits that we have named, thus obscuring the effects of change. Neil Postman