"An energy storm triggered by the untangling of the first trap."

Recognition came, a slow untangling of threads that had knotted.

Ms. Shibata was the woman who did the untangling, by wrapping herself around him.

Hence, the untangling of it must be by those most actively involved in it.

The untangling of these names proved something of an obstacle to me.

For now, new signals and an untangling of traffic circles have made the road slightly less harrowing.

His arrival and the untangling of events and feelings that it would bring could be moments away.

Transportation officials attribute the explosion to a recent untangling of decade-old planning and financing problems.

After the untangling, he chuckled and said, "There goes my popularity in India.

With great difficulty and much shouting and untangling of ropes far above, the figure was lowered to the stage.

I began a surreptitious untangling of arms and legs only to be greeted by a cheerful, "Ah, awake are you?"

The personal untangling is not.

It was, in a certain way, no more difficult than the repairing of an engine or the untangling of a faulty circuit.

Miles didn't bother untangling that one.

Mr. Sikes will need the Democrats' support in untangling the snarl of issues.

Nor does Mr. Lindsey bother with updating or psychological untangling.

It's the untangling, the reducing that's difficult--that's why people don't like to bother.

Often in Ms. Jolley's fiction this involves the untangling of a story within a story.

While she and others searched for meaning, law enforcement officials continued their investigation, which includes the task of untangling the often-contradictory statements made by the defendants.

On the drive up, Carrie has felt cranky and introspective, distracted by "the long untangling I felt was coming our way."

And though his delivery resembles Johnson's elongated untangling of arms and legs, he appears more graceful and with similar power.

A method of untangling a rope in which the rope is run through the climber's hands and allowed to fall into a pile on the ground.

Mike took a bundle of the rope with him, meaning to go on with the untangling of it at Peep-Hole.

For in it, Shakespeare provided space for individual untangling - just the sort of conjuring and controlling that is performed by Prospero, the magician.

As you near the end of your untangling, unknotting task, you realize that there must be some way to keep your tie-downs organized - but how?

Their language had needed untangling for a good many years.

The least I can do for you is to untangle this.

But they had always been able to untangle themselves, eventually.

The situation seemed far too complex for her to untangle.

Here again, it is hard to untangle the personal from the critical.

I got ready to untangle myself, but the woman held on tight.

"This is a way to challenge the system to untangle itself and begin to move."

Harold would have to untangle them, as he always did.

It took her a moment to untangle that: young miss?

It has given him another 30 days to untangle some business affairs.

Untangling her perception into words the two of them could understand.

I took a moment or two to untangle the reason from my own confusion.

What could take years to untangle is not his struggle, though give him a vote and he will point east.

Untangling them from our legal system would be quite an interesting task.

I know things look pretty dark right now, but you've got to untangle them one knot at a time.

My father took a while to untangle his hands from the net, but at last he stood.

She wondered how long it would take to untangle herself if he left again.

When she tries to hold onto him, he has to untangle himself from her.

More important, you will not spend any time untangling wires.

Untangling each picture is both a fun exercise in close looking.

I had to untangle this to realize that he meant me.

"This is a complicated matter we're trying to untangle here."

It's a bit hard to untangle the difference, to be honest.

"Untangling that in a few hours is going to be even harder."

The government has been trying to untangle this complicated web.