1.   Not even a bravura turn by one of the most charismatic actors of his generation can relieve the torpor.

2.   So, divide the number of degrees of turn by three to get the time.

3.   Its operations were hampered at every turn by inadequate numbers of trained staff.

4.   Now we initiate the turn by pushing the tiller away and the next thing to do is wait.

5.   Also aiding the housing market is the recent turn by homebuyers to adjustable mortgage rates to finance their purchases, according to David Seiders, NAHB chief economist.

6.   Also look for a deftly comic guest turn by Merrill Markoe as a museum worker.

7.   And, not for the first time in these pages, a star turn by fiction writer turned objet de performance art Martin Amis.

8.   Another wrong turn by the Court crippled the early New Deal laws.

9.   Best of all was the Khrennikov, with a brilliant solo turn by Juliette Kang.

10.   A turn by German voters to the left after a generation marked a historic turning point that was not so much about ideology as about German self-confidence and assertiveness.