How To Use Tempestuous In A Sentence
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Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude.
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For years, the couple's tempestuous relationship made the headlines.
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With Maureen and Jane it seemed improbable, but every now and then I caught myself wondering if the tempestuous Alessandra felt even a slight tendresse.
Why Women Still Don't Get It
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It will be a difficult task as the ship has become overloaded, capricious and the ocean is tempestuous.
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He sang in choirs, played at balls and weddings and baptisms, made "arrangements" for anybody who would employ him, and in short drudged very much as Wagner did at the outset of his tempestuous career.
Joseph Haydn
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One forlorn fragment of dollanity had belonged to Jo and, having led a tempestuous life, was left a wreck in the rag bag, from which dreary poorhouse it was rescued by Beth and taken to her refuge.
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We may well imagine that such scenes were preceded as well as accompanied by a fearful racket within (a familiar device of our low comedy and extravaganza), the effect probably heightened by tempestuous _melodrama_ on the _tibiae_, as both the scenes cited are in _canticum_.
The Dramatic Values in Plautus
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I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man who, in mid-winter just landed from a four years’ dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term.
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In the freedom of this rather unalluring garb she entered into relations Platonic, fraternal, or tempestuously passionate with perhaps the most distinguished series of friends and lovers that ever fluttered about one flame.
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
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They were tossed upon a tempestuous sea.
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She'd be childlike, tempestuous and unpredictable.
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So, too, a tempestuous relationship with instructors.
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I know you can't dine here in consequence of the tempestuous weather on the Covent Garden shores, but if you will come in when you have done Trinculizing, you will delight me greatly, and add in no inconsiderable degree to the "conviviality" of the meeting.
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3 (of 3), 1836-1870
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They had probably always had a tempestuous relationship and were used to speaking their minds freely.
PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
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And he knew not, apparently, how to express the hero's greatness _in word_, but by making him bethump the stage with tempestuous verbiage; which, to be sure, is not the style of greatness at all, but only of one trying to be great, and _trying_ to be so, because he is not so.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
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But their love affair is as tempestuous and doomed as a Latin ballad.
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They engaged in tempestuous weather; and the tumultuary conflict was continued from the dawn to the extinction of light.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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He had a tempestuous life in turbulent times.
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The historians present the picture of a brilliant but tempestuous and cruel man.
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A fiery, tempestuous reading of the Allegro non troppo had just the right contrasting hues of aristocratic grace.
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But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.
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The potentially damaging book comes after an apparent thawing of relations between the prime minister and his chancellor, with well placed insiders saying the often tempestuous relationship is on its most even keel in years.
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Month after month, images of protests, the hostage crisis, and other tempestuous events came pouring out of my homeland.
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45 The fleet of galleys and transports sailed in tempestuous weather from the port of Pisa, in
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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And there was mention of `a tempestuous petticoat " too, if he remembered correctly.
THE BOOK LADY
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He was abandoned by his mother when he was 8 years old and seems to have a tempestuous relationship with his father throughout his life.
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This has been a tempestuous period in a distinguished riding career.
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They begin a tempestuous and deeply erotic relationship even though both are in middle age and have wildly different expectations about monogamy and marriage.
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She doesn't know Corinne, has no experience of the depth and complexity and interlinked contradictions that make up this intense, tempestuous, extraordinary woman.
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The General often seems to use reason and intelligence to paper over an emotionally tempestuous nature, and I wonder if his reaction to being ruled out of the running to lead Europe might have had something to do with this statement's odd-ness.
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It's common knowledge that the tempestuous winter months put our vehicles through greater stress and strain, and can often make minor imperfections into major malfunctions.
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In court, she was forced to air details of her unreconciled rift with Diana, and conceded letters to her ‘tempestuous’ daughter were returned unopened.
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The offshore waters are typically tempestuous, but winds in the channel's eastern bight will be only 10 to 15 knots.
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But City sources quickly dismissed suggestions this might prove to be the final straw in their tempestuous relationship.
The Sun
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It's said that he is ‘difficult’, ‘broody’, ‘paranoid’ and afflicted by a tempestuous and confrontational character.
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It had precipitous cliffs over 2,000ft in height, against which dashed tempestuous seas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The match had been relatively quiet until the 28th minute when it suddenly exploded into tempestuous life.
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He and the tempestuous Chapman had an incredibly attuned working relationship which began m 1960.
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They had a daughter the following year but it was to prove to be a tempestuous relationship.
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Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.
Matthew Yglesias » Amar Bhide, WSJ Edit Page, Embrace Regular Recurrence of Massive Recessions
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He and Mum had a tempestuous relationship.
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When he was not affectionately coercing people into buying things they did not need, he stood at the back of the store, glowing, abstracted, feeling masculine as he recalled the tempestuous surprises of love revealed by Vida.
Main Street
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And he knew not, apparently, how to express the hero's greatness in word, but by making him bethump the stage with tempestuous verbiage; which, to be sure, is not the style of greatness at all, but only of one trying to be great, and trying to be so, because he is not so.
Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
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Month after month, images of protests, the hostage crisis, and other tempestuous events came pouring out of my homeland.
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He was as famous for his volatile temper as for his food writing, leading to tempestuous and often short-lived relationships with friends and editors.
Times, Sunday Times
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It offends commonly if it be too [1510] hot and dry, thick, fuliginous, cloudy, blustering, or a tempestuous air.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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It had precipitous cliffs over 2,000ft in height, against which dashed tempestuous seas.
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After meeting on a train, the couple had a tempestuous 12-year relationship.
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He was as famous for his volatile temper as for his food writing, leading to tempestuous and often short-lived relationships with friends and editors.
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She frequently braves tempestuous weather in the little eight-seater Britton Norman, specially designed to cope with the wilds of the North Sea, and similar to the planes they use in the Antarctic.
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A year after 'abdicating' as he puts it, he married Mati: it was a tempestuous match.
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His eyes were stormy green, like a tempestuous patch of sky right before the tornado siren goes off, with a layer of translucent blue like the heavens beneath fluffy clouds.
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And he knew not, apparently, how to express the hero's greatness _in word_, but by making him bethump the stage with tempestuous verbiage; which, to be sure, is not the style of greatness at all, but only of one trying to be great, and _trying_ to be so, because he is not so.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England
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It is still hard to fathom how it is that people can be so tempestuous, so very emotionally self-indulgent, around those who really shouldn't be expected to put up with it.
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You spend most of the time with head immersed in tempestuous waters, constantly pulled and kicked by other swimmers, getting fingers jammed in lane lines and heads slammed at the end of the pool during backstroke sets.
Archive 2007-05-01
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Only at that climactic moment - after extended tempestuous debate, jockeying, and tactical manoeuvres - was the Speaker's political preference made clear.
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He was older, sexually experienced, and worldly wise, having enjoyed a tempestuous affair with an Italian contessa
Wedlock by Wendy Moore: Questions
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A fiery, tempestuous reading of the Allegro non troppo had just the right contrasting hues of aristocratic grace.
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Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again. even though he wrote those words in A Tract on Monetary Reform in 1923 (regarding the playing out of inflation, which Keynes’ Classical peers said would resolve itself soon enough) and not during or about the Depression.
Matthew Yglesias » Amar Bhide, WSJ Edit Page, Embrace Regular Recurrence of Massive Recessions
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The brown kurrajong (COMMERSONIA ECHINATA) exhibits it even more conspicuously, and, when the dusty white flowers — displayed in almost horizontal planes — are buffeted by the winds and the white undersides of the leaves are revealed, the whole style of the tree is transformed as a demure damsel is by tempestuous petticoats.
Tropic Days
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The supermodel is said to be beside herself after the pair's tempestuous year-long relationship appeared to have come to an end.
The Sun
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She was as well known for her eight tempestuous marriages as for her striking beauty and her two Academy Awards for best actress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Worth waiting for, though: The offshore waters are typically tempestuous, but winds in the channel's eastern bight will be only 10 to 15 knots.
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It's basically about a relationship, a passionate tempestuous relationship.
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Azure blue and tranquil one moment when kissed by the sun and flattened by breeze; tempestuous and grey the next, whipped by fierce wind and powerful current.
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It was a tempestuous love.
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The sheer tempestuousness with which Burstein attacked the furious cascade of notes in the Presto agitato brought Beethoven's music right into the 21st century.
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Cæsar already understood this; his mysterious and obscure connection with Cleopatra had certainly for ultimate motive and reason this political necessity; and Antony, in marrying Cleopatra, probably only applied more or less shrewdly the ideas that Cæsar had originated in the refulgent crepuscle of his tempestuous career.
Characters and events of Roman History
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But the aforementioned compositions do not capture the roughhewn joy of newlyweds, the married couple of fifty years, and those who have transitioned from tempestuous waters to calmer seas in matrimony.
Andrew Wilkes: Appreciation For The 'Sacred Dance' Of Marriage
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The end of their romance in the middle of June was just as tempestuous.
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Tysjatcha dush" (A Thousand Souls), a gloomy but faithful picture of the corruption of Russian society, which is portrayed also in his novel "Vzgalamutchennoe More" (Tempestuous Sea); his novel "Liudi sokorovykh godoff" (Men of Forty Years) deals with the agrarian question.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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Tempestuous air, dark and fuliginous, how cause of melancholy
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Outside the clouds had burst and it was raining torrentially, the Gulf Stream swept in over the Cliffs of Moher and tempestuously lashed down on all of Ireland who faced the desolate Atlantic alone.
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I think I have a much more tempestuous and eventful amorous life than the average middle-class citizen, but I wouldn't agree that I necessarily behaved dishonourably.
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Somehow the marriage lasted for eight tempestuous months.
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She had a tempestuous two-year relationship with her 33-year-old ex.
The Sun
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The ballade, perhaps an 1848 homage to Liszt's soon-to-be-dead friend Chopin, was played every bit as tempestuously as one could wish for.
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Gone was the mercurial, tempestuous socialite who didn't know what she wanted, swung from mood to mood, loved childish games, or danced the night away.
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Saine, insomuch that when the capteins of that armie did linger out the time, by reason the seas and aire was troubled, they cried to haue the sailes hoised vp, and signe giuen to lanch foorth, that they might passe forward on their iournie, despising certeine tokens which threatened their wrecke, and so set forward on a rainie and tempestuous day, sailing with a crosse wind, for no forewind might serue their turne.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England
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Borg is the cool Swedish baseliner, McEnroe the tempestuous New Yorker and fearless volleyer.
A Rivalry Renewed—Over Drinks
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Parents under pressure may be less tolerant of tempestuous adolescent behavior, he believes, causing additional conflict.
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The narrative says that Russia failed because the tempestuous Gorbachev ignored the Chinese reform model, moved too quickly, and allowed the party monopoly to fall apart.
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A long-time friend of Mark said he drank up to 20 cans of lager a day and had a tempestuous relationship with Claire.
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This album is a dark, tempestuous but highly inviting place that you could quite easily lose yourself in, and there's a real chance that you won't want to return.
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It lies at the heart of one of the most tempestuous alliances in art between Vincent Van Gogh and his mentor Paul Gauguin.
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Though the weather was cool and the night tempestuous, he had thrown aside his pea-jacket, with most of his disguise, and was sitting ruefully on his blanket, wiping, with one hand, the large drops of sweat from his forehead, and occasionally grasping his throat with the other, with a kind of convulsed mechanical movement.
The Pilot
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Eigg stands 15 miles from the mainland in the tempestuous waters of the Minch.
Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg
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The tempestuous whirl of circum-Antarctic waters is also responsible for their being among the most fertile in the world.
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As a Third World postcolonial feminist scholar and activist, I look back to my tempestuous teenage years in India, when my heroes were great revolutionaries.
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The young Maradona of the 1982 football World Cup was red-carded and withdrawn from the team for the rest of the tournament for his tempestuous behaviour.
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He is assertive, abrasive and aggressive, a tempestuous man of passion.
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Your relationships have been tempestuous, right?
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Next to our beloved Washington, there is no name entwined with deeper interest in the hearts of Jerseymen, than LAFAYETTE -- None, which they will transmit to their posterity, encircled with a wreath of nobler praise, or embalmed with the incense of purer love, than that of the interesting stranger who embarked his life and fortune open the tempestuous ocean of our revolution -- and who fought at Brandywine, at Monmouth and at
Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United State
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It will be a difficult task as the ship has become overloaded, capricious and the ocean is tempestuous.
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But, however tempestuous this is within me, it comes out as the low voice of a curiously colored seashell, which is only for those ears that are bent with compassion to hear it.
American Indian Stories
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His peaceful white face was turned full towards the sky a livid shadow falling upon it from the tempestuous clouds.
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The tempestuous marriage ends in 1974 but they remarry the next year... only to divorce again a year on.
The Sun
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The tempestuous paddy, the tempestuous laddie decided to remeet along with all the bleak.
Pander! Panda! Panzer!
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Unforgiving dry, and tempestuous rainy seasons ensure that mankind's foothold here will forever be tenuous.
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He brought strong intensity and passion to Bellini's tempestuous masterpiece.
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At the basic level Scarlett is a tempestuous heroine out of a bodice-ripping historical novel, a focus for fantasy projection on the part of far more sedate women.
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We see single plants on a beach, cliffs beside water pressing in on the painter, the waves still or tempestuous, reflecting the wild vagaries of his mind.
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And if tempestuous catabatic winds blow, the itinerary allows plenty of time to wait them out in four-season tents.
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This too was a tempestuous marriage, including armed rebellion against her husband.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Scorpios are supposedly the most passionate, stormy and sensitive sign of the zodiac and choosing gifts for these types can be tricky - on the one hand you have an easily hurt lovebunny, on the other, a tempestuous individual.
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Stewart's tempestuous drama does not sugarcoat the failings of her characters and Graham McLaren's pacey production pulls no punches.
Men Should Weep; The Missing – review
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It had precipitous cliffs over 2,000ft in height, against which dashed tempestuous seas.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had a tempestuous affair with her for more than eight years.
The Sun
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This he indignantly denied, saying that he "had never buried a babe even in most tempestuous weather," when he rode several miles, but he always wore a band, and he complained in turn that members of his congregation turned away from him on the street, and "glowered" at him and "sneered at him.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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Only calm remained, as still and tranquil as the ocean after a tempestuous storm.
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After the winter solstice, and at the time when the zephyr usually begins to blow, severe winterly storms out of season, with much northerly wind, snow, continued and copious rains; the sky tempestuous and clouded; these things were protracted, and did not remit until the equinox.
Of The Epidemics
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All his mighty forces he now brought to bear against the oncoming canoe; he swept great hurricanes about the stony ledges; he caused the sea to beat and swirl in tempestuous fury along its narrow fastnesses; but the canoe came nearer and nearer, invincible as those shores, and stronger than death itself.
Legends of Vancouver
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I live next door to a couple who have a very tempestuous relationship and constantly seem to be arguing.
Times, Sunday Times
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What induced this stormy outburst on this tempestuous May morning?
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I think I have a much more tempestuous and eventful amorous life than the average middle-class citizen, but I wouldn't agree that I necessarily behaved dishonourably.
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Michoacán is a confluence of landscapes, rivers and lakes, a variety of climates, cascades hidden in abundantly exuberant vegetation, virgin beaches with crystalline waters, tempestuous waves and calm cooling waters, therapeutic spring waters, geysers, caves and subterranean rivers.
Introduction to Michoacán - the soul of Mexico
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Since regaining consciousness, pain, thirst, and hunger permitting, Wayne had spent the last few hours working his way through the Bach suites numerically, and doing rather well, too, until he got stuck on number five, the one Casals called the tempestuous suite.
Fear Itself
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And who but she had held together the everyday warp and weft of his tempestuous marriage?
OUT OF THE ASHES