How To Use Tumultuous In A Sentence

The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
Rimna held his hands up for silence, not even trying to speak over the tumultuous noise.
The state defines unlawful assembly as a threat of ‘tumultuous disturbance of the peace.’
After a tumultuous turn of events, the general cast of the show is nailed down as the three end up shipless on one of the large continents.
It's been a tumultuous day at the international trade negotiations in Brussels.

Hooting matatu taxis add to the confusion with their somewhat tumultuous chaos.
The world has been going through a tumultuous period since the dawn of the 1990s, with no sign of relief in sight.
Sting left the stage to a tumultuous round of applause and three of the Beatles took over, Paul being the surprising omission.
Intensely narcissistic people often live tumultuous lives, as few people can tolerate them for long.
On a recent train journey a nearby couple had a comically tumultuous and very public break-up, which she duly live-tweeted in all its glory.
Penn State placed assistant coach Mike McQueary on administrative leave, capping a tumultuous week in which his name surfaced as a... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.
For this he received tumultuous applause. Times, Sunday Times
Patriotism, hounded on by Prussian Terror, by Preternatural Suspicion, roars tumultuous round the Salle de Manege, all day; insults many leading Deputies, of the absolvent Right-side; nay chases them, collars them with loud menace: Deputy Vaublanc, and others of the like, are glad to take refuge in Guardhouses, and escape by the back window. The French Revolution
He called the tumultuous period since those attacks '' 19 months that changed the world, '' and said Mr. Hussein's defeat was a defeat for al-Qaeda and other terrorists as well .... Greg Mitchell: On 6th Anniversary of 'Mission Accomplished' -- How the Media Blew It
We know, however, that Beethoven had some poetic idea in his mind as he wrote this; but as he never gave the clew to the world, the music has been swallowed as 'absolute music' by the modern formalists "-- a comment which would apply almost word for word, with a change of names and titles, to a certain tumultuous and" unbeautiful "passage in MacDowell's" Lancelot and Elaine. Edward MacDowell
For all that Netanyahu's innate arrogance and self-aggrandisement was laid bare by the contents of the nine-year-old recording, the collective shrugging of shoulders implies that few expected anything else from a man who has been boasting of his own political prowess throughout his tumultuous career. Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker
Public service personnel have been through a tumultuous period. Times, Sunday Times
Notably Mentz argues that the inscription is not an example of tachygraphy but rather an early attempt, during the tumultuous times surrounding the Pelepponesian War, to reform the Greek language.
The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
From here, the novel follows Vlad Dracula from his days as a young hostage at Sultan Murad's court in Edirne through his tumultuous career as a fugitive, a warlord Prince, a prisoner and a noble in the court of the king of Hungary. Archive 2009-03-01
They were given a tumultuous welcome by the defenders. Times, Sunday Times
Jim Gibbons was tossed aside Tuesday -- the first incumbent governor in Nevada history to lose a nominating election after a tumultuous first term marred by a bitter divorce, allegations of infidelities and an abrasive style that alienated members of his own party. Las Vegas News - LasVegasNOW.com
In these tumultuous times it is risky to make forecasts. The Sun
His predecessor was accorded an equally tumultuous welcome.
Mr Mandela was given a tumultuous reception in Washington.
The story delves into the lives of each teen as they are shaken from the remnants of their childhood and whisked into tumultuous lessons in adulthood and duty, as their respective countries prepare for war. Rabid Reads: "Leviathan" by Scott Westerfeld
A middle-class tradeswoman with a printing press in her own home, her works chronicling the national events of a tumultuous period are a unique resource for the recovery of popular female involvement in early modern political culture.
In those tearful, tumultuous days following the death of Princess Diana, Bernie Taupin and Elton John rejigged Candle In The Wind (1997) to reflect the nation's grief – although, truth be told, the Fiver was never sure whether the line 'You were the grace that placed itself/Where lives were torn apart' referred to her affairs or something else entirely. Another humiliating defeat
Such transitions2 often excite mirth, or other sudden and tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense. The Beautiful in Sounds
He was also Carl Crook, an Anglo-Canadian teenager, and the middle aged businessman he has become – still living in China – looks back on his tumultuous youth now with an air of vague bemusement.
But they also suggest that life is lived largely in the gaps in the fabric of the law that is stretched thinly over the tumultuousness of humanity. 'The Tangle Of Egos And Rules'
Hooting matatu taxis add to the confusion with their somewhat tumultuous chaos.
The Musketeers' life in Paris was often tumultuous, even if strict discipline continued to reign back at the casern.
The gates of the city were thrown open, and the new emperor of the Romans, encompassed on every side by the Gothic arms, was conducted, in tumultuous procession, to the palace of Augustus and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Those servicemen, who marched around the ground, were given a tumultuous reception. Times, Sunday Times
The show played to full houses for a five-night run and ended to tumultuous applause on Saturday night.
He has been no stranger to controversy and vitriol during a tumultuous political career.
Now, looking back on the past few tumultuous years, he can glean a glimmer of satisfaction from what he calls his ordeal by humiliation. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Bedford Rugby has had some quite tumultuous years.
His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives inat least this is true in tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our ownbut before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. Why I Write
More detailed inquiries took place in the 1940s after a period of tumultuous relationships and high - profile break-ups.
Tweed lied to Goody about his occupation, age and heritage on their first meeting, but the couple still entered a long-term tumultuous relationship. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
Fu-ch'ai's surviving friends had indeed a very lively stimulus indeed-the fear of instant death-to drive them tumultuously over the seas; and doubtless, as they must have been perfectly harmless after tossing about hungry in open boats for weeks together, they would be as welcome to the Japanese king, or to the petty chief or chiefs who received the waifs, as in our own times was the honest sailor Will Adams when he drifted friendless to Japan, and whose statue now adorns a great Japanese city as that of a man who was, in a humble way, also a "civilizer" of Japan (600 A.D.). Ancient China Simplified
The next chief of the armed forces is being chosen this weekend at the end of a tumultuous week. Times, Sunday Times
But throughout the days of his life, in the very act of his rude existence, this great tumultuous presence of the sea troubles and overbears him. Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 1
The next chief of the armed forces is being chosen this weekend at the end of a tumultuous week. Times, Sunday Times
Developments after 1967 were complicated, tumultuous, and mostly unplanned.
The party has always been tumultuous in personnel matters.
There I learned to study the Bible and apply it to my very tumultuous life. Christianity Today
The last time that we saw this tumultuous interplay between anarchy and oligarchy was in the 18th century.
The next chief of the armed forces is being chosen this weekend at the end of a tumultuous week. Times, Sunday Times
Tumultuous come with teeming sweetness to the bitter shore tidelong unrinsed and midday parched and numb with expectation. Experience, Figuration, the Avant-Garde, My Grouse : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
As I enjoyed the quasi-fictional depiction of President Nixon's trip to China at the Metropolitan Opera, my mind wandered as to whether his excursion to foreign territory and his interest in accelerating America's ties with Asia also catalyzed his passivity towards the tumultuous transformations in his own country; just as President Clinton's premature overtures to China for expansive trade catalyzed income inequality at home in hopes of futural prosperity fueled by the prospects of global demand for American products from a growing and wealthier global consumer. Milton Curry: Nixon in China and the American City: Radical Urban Revitalization Needed
I do recall that last Christmas was colder and far less settled than this year, a more tumultuous season of ups and downs.
the tumultuous years of his administration
Steam enthusiasts barely noticed the untumultuous tea party sized meeting which had gathered to show support for international superstar Robin Page and exchange reasons on why UKIP would be successful if only they were in charge. Archive 2009-02-01
For Thailand, a medium-sized country - whose destiny is closely tied up with the global economy and liberal democracy - drifting along rudderless in the tumultuous current of world events is not an option.
While meteorology is a science complicated by chaotic weather patterns, statistics on the tumultuous developments illustrate a definite trend in the past decades.
Superficially he might seem almost a name culled at random from the list of leading political celebrities in France, but in fact he was useful because he made the very specific connection with the tumultuous and dangerous world of European federalism. The Sion Revelation
Although his original drive was to make money, he also wanted to escape his tumultuous life. Times, Sunday Times
He is standing to the side once again on this day, an understudy in this tumultuous theatre.
There I learned to study the Bible and apply it to my very tumultuous life. Christianity Today
Her spoon was gone; that was beyond question, and Daisy's little spirit was in tumultuous disturbance – very uncommon indeed with her. Melbourne House
As a result of our tumultuousness, there abides in the American psyche an idea so powerful it ennobles us, and lifts us high above the problems which beset us.
The Betrayal of Christ (National Gallery, Dublin) is set in darkness tumultuous with the flicker of flambeaux on steel.
But our friendship was deep: he needed help with homework and someone to listen to his tumultuous life; I was a wide-eyed A-student who wanted to right the world, one boy at a time. Ginger Emas: Are You Still Dating Your Ex?
William and Ffion enter Downing Street to tumultuous Tory applause and waving of union flags.
Has she helped him stabilise his once tumultuous personal life? Times, Sunday Times
Public service personnel have been through a tumultuous period. Times, Sunday Times
For this he received tumultuous applause. Times, Sunday Times
Spawned during one of the most tumultuous eras in history, Coltrane's ideas were reflective of a period in which the foundations of American life trembled to the core.
The occasional glimpses of the tumultuous moment - shooting of a Vietnamese in the street, dying U.S. soldiers, presidents pontificating - are gestures to headlines of the times.
Attorney Vincent Romano, who represents Porcelli hopes that Buoneto recorded the intense discussion that he had with his client in August, on the last day of what the lawyer described as a tumultuous and terrifying two-week ordeal for Porcelli, who has a 19-year-long history of anxiety and depression, according to the attorney. Jerry Capeci: Feds Went Down Low to Make Mob Sex-Trafficking Case
With no dramatic surprises of fortune, and no great sorrows, his life had scarce any other alternation than that it went round with the earth through night and day, and would have been tame but for his necessary labor in an art which he loved wisely and with the untumultuous sentiment of an after-honey-moon constancy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
1968 was a tumultuous year, not only within the film industry but throughout the world, as social protests and political movements shook the Establishment.
He sat down to tumultuous applause. Times, Sunday Times
It follows four buddies, Asian-American high school students in Southern California who get caught up in a tumultuous rush of drugs, crime, and violence.
He earned this position with his concise, forceful prose as well astumultuous, often newsworthy lifestyle.
Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people… broken, tumultuous, agonised and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by death, by agonies?
I lived a rather tumultuous life targeting for money power wealth authority status name fame and whatnot.
Janet and William Norwood, the young man's parents, were also seated in the gallery and stood up to tumultuous and prolonged applause.
Given the tumultuousness in many parts of America's foreign policy portfolio, it's easy to nitpick and criticize (which I do frequently), but I have to tip my hat to President Obama's measured and positive comments today following the conclusion of what are officially called the P5+1 Negotiations with Iran. Steve Clemons: President Obama's Body Language on Iran Is Just Right
No. There is a volume of smoke, as if the chimney were in flame -- a tumultuous cloud pours aloft, straggling and broken, through the broad slate stones that defend the mouth of the vomitory from every blast. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
Hearst was the media magnate whose tumultuous life was parodied in the 1941 movie, Citizen Kane.
Plus, of course, tumultuous applause. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Mandela was given a tumultuous reception in Washington.
It is a sign of the times, of our tumultuous, dizzying culture of metaphysical angst.
The public response is tumultuous, both at the landing ground and at the small maidan where the meeting is in progress.
People were not aware of them in the tumultuous period during the election campaign.
A tumultuous round of applause concluded the excited movement and all were treated to refreshments, much enjoyed by all.
Capitol itself and it will make its way eventually to the Rotunda -- but a lot of people, Tom De Frank, as we review the Ford presidency don't necessarily recall the tumultuousness of the U.S. foreign policy crises that were still unfolding then. CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2006
I heard Thy voice behind me, calling to me to return, and scarcely heard it, through the tumultuousness of the enemies of peace. The Confessions
He was re-elected four times during one of the most tumultuous periods of the 20th century. Times, Sunday Times
Plus, of course, tumultuous applause. Times, Sunday Times
When tumultuous events rocked the world he soon forgot her.
Such19 transitions often excite mirth, or other sudden or tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense. On the Sublime and Beautiful
He comments on being weighed down ‘with the burdens of pastoral care’ and ‘great tumultuous uproars in secular affairs’.
In 1929, after approaching him for mentorship, Frida Kahlo married another Mexican artist, Diego Rivera, but while he encouraged her art, their marriage was fairly tumultuous, as both had hot tempers and engaged in extramarital affairs. All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Inspiring Women: Frida Kahlo
Amir Khan enters the ring to tumultuous applause from the massed British supporters.
the crowd was demonstrating tumultuously
The Sonics have had one of their most tumultuous seasons in recent memory, including a coaching and ownership change.
The deal would resolve all criminal and civil penalties and draw a line under the most tumultuous period in the company's history. Times, Sunday Times
These players were the real heroes on the night as they received a tumultuous applause from the attendance.
Tincture of strophanthus, in 2-dram doses, will quiet the tumultuous action of the heart in some cases where the digitalis fails. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
The Barbarians dashed into it in order to overtake the velites; quite at the bottom other Carthaginians were running tumultuously amid galloping oxen. Salammbo
It's nice to see my tumultuous love-life brings so much happiness to other people.
Once Alicia (Emmy winner Julianna Margulies) embraced her bad side, in a tumultuous secret liaison with her boss Will (Josh Charles), network TV's most compelling drama is also its steamiest, cunningly blending the personal with a sharply written legal procedural that is never less than stimulating. Matt Roush's Top 10 (And Then Some) of 2011
I made a dash for the door, and as I did I triggered the electronic video sensors at the store entrance, which wailed tumultuously as I broke out onto the street.
The adjective "tumultuous" is often used to describe the events of the 1960s. Something Happening Here
Their passions, tumultuous and merciless as the Tyrrhene Sea, raged indeed with the danger, but also with the uses, of naturally appointed storm; while ours, pacific in corruption, languish in vague maremma of misguided pools; and are pestilential most surely as they retire. Val d'Arno
Such [28] transitions often excite mirth, or other sudden or tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
This tumultuous spring also marks a generational shift in Europe's political landscape.
‘In the name of God stop this massacre before it goes any further,’ he roared to tumultuous applause.
David came on to the Mayflower stage to tumultuous applause from a packed, mainly female middle-aged audience.
The victory meant the end to a tumultuous year both personally and professionally for both surfers.
These mercenaries were, of course, a fierce and rapacious soldiery, and having an idle tale current among themselves, that a lanzknecht was refused admittance into heaven on account of his vices, and into hell on the score of his tumultuous, mutinous, and insubordinate disposition, they manfully acted as if they neither sought the one nor eschewed the other. Quentin Durward
It's a Paris of the '60s - that most tumultuous and sentimentalized of decades - and comes with all the requisite anger, anxiousness and idealism.
For all that Netanyahu's innate arrogance and self-aggrandisement was laid bare by the contents of the nine-year-old recording, the collective shrugging of shoulders implies that few expected anything else from a man who has been boasting of his own political prowess throughout his tumultuous career. Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker
From a long-term point of view, therefore, the tumultuous changes in Italian religion at the end of the early modern period mark not the dawn of a new era but merely a caesura.
We came out of the tunnel and were greeted by tumultuous applause.
After the tumultuous events of 1990, Eastern Europe was completely transformed.
She may have led her people serenely through many long, tumultuous decades of war and technological change. The Sun
Major League Baseball owns the Expos now, after a tumultuous 10 years.
He sat down to tumultuous applause. Times, Sunday Times
He kept them in the little cottage next to ours; and that the shanty survived the tumultuous presence of that brood is a wonder to me to-day. The Promised Land
She may have led her people serenely through many long, tumultuous decades of war and technological change. The Sun
The period between the first and the second world wars was extremely tumultuous.
Protesters chaining themselves to the White House gate on Monday, objecting to what they called the silent homophobia of those who purport to be our friends and do nothing, capped a tumultuous few days in the fight to repeal Arianna Huffington: The Split-Screen Struggle Over Gay Rights
The deal would resolve all criminal and civil penalties and draw a line under the most tumultuous period in the company's history. Times, Sunday Times
His litigious and tumultuous year away from football is also a concern.
They were given a tumultuous welcome by the defenders. Times, Sunday Times
Has she helped him stabilise his once tumultuous personal life? Times, Sunday Times
The infotech sector of the S&P 500 has fallen 38.4 percent in the last tumultuous six months, compared to the 44.7 percent drop in the S&P 500 itself. Should Google Be Added to the Dow?
His tumultuous triumph 5 years ago now seems a mere footnote in history.
This was a tumultuous mixture of the wild carouse, the noisy song, and the drunken dance; and the meaning of the word comedy is a comus _song_. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
The biographer delicately demonstrates the impact of this tumultuous childhood on the poet's work, without resorting to cod psychology.
His tumultuous triumph 5 years ago now seems a mere footnote in history.
All of those things, one after the other, these just tumultuous events.
The brothers ended their tumultuous relationship with the corporate giant in a mutual agreement just hours ago.
Thinking on her feet, Larmore sings an aria from the Barber of Seville, to tumultuous applause from the concourse.
Beneath him seethed and boiled the tumultuous billows, their wreathy tops torn from them, and shot, in long vanishing sheets of spray, over the distracted wilderness. Adela Cathcart, Volume 3
The life of the autobiographer is fittingly tumultuous and disordered.
It's been a tumultuous day at the international trade negotiations in Brussels.
He was my boss, my co-byliner, my infuriator and my dear friend over the course of 35 tumultuous years. Les Whitten: Eulogy for a Muckraker
The life of the autobiographer is fittingly tumultuous and disordered.
You've had some pretty tumultuous relationships with other band members in the past.
His predecessor was accorded an equally tumultuous welcome.
Allies are made, lost and forgotten in a heartbeat; promoters confound the plan by putting our tumultuous trio up as closing act of the night on bills that are, frankly, baffling and then doing nothing to hype the venture.
The victorious team were given a tumultuous welcome when they arrived home.
Adding to the tumultuousness of the modern economy, modern technology has bestowed upon us Google, social networks, blogs and a host of other means for others to learn about your “arete,” your honor, your reputation, your standing, in ways other than speaking directly with you. You’re Better Than Your Job Search
They speak only to the learned, whose passions they rather choose to compose than disturb; and they discourse about matters of calm and untumultuous speculation, merely as teachers, and not like eager antagonists: though even _here_, when they endeavour to amuse and delight us, they are thought by some to exceed the limits of their province. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
The victorious team on arrival in Bunclody were greeted with tumultuous applause on their brilliant playing.
She was affected by the often tumultuous personal lives of her children.
She left the stage to tumultuous applause.
Indeed, all the great foundation schools of London, bearing in their very codes of organization the impress of a double function -- viz., the conservation of sound learning and of pure religion -- wear something of a monastic or cloisteral character in their aspect and usages, which is peculiarly impressive, and even pathetic, amidst the uproars of a capital the most colossal and tumultuous upon earth. Biographical Essays
At the end the applause was tumultuous, sustained and deserved.
No one was listening or taking much of an interest, but when he was done a tumultuous round of applause greeted him.
Over the years although he has never worked with a piano teacher, Granville has developed a style built on a combination of classical technique and what he describes as "inescapable present day modality shaped by a tumultuous emotionality. George Heymont: No, Seriously -- Send In The Clowns!
For this we have been called a sottish, an insatiable, and tumultuous people -- and to punish us for this offence the world has been told we deserve all those horrible calamities which, year after year, since that time have been inflicted on us! The Causes of the Rebellion in Ireland Disclosed In an Address to the People of England, in Which It Is Proved by Incontrovertible Facts, That the System for Some Years Pursued in That Country, Has Driven It into Its Present Dreadful Situation
Gertie asked in a hoarse, guttural voice, choked like that of a swimmer just risen free of a crushing wave, her glance still searching the living room as she repeated “Huh?” the word loud, as if between her and Mrs. Anderson there were long distances filled with walls and waves of tumultuous sound through which voices could not carry. The Dollmaker
These few moments behind the scenes in the making of the movie highlight how serious the performer was at his chosen craft, while hinting at the megalomania that would later tarnish his tumultuous reputation.
He was re-elected four times during one of the most tumultuous periods of the 20th century. Times, Sunday Times
There was a sudden burst of tumultuous noise from the concert area.
All I know is this exchange will throw huge kinks into an already tumultuous life, and despite this fact, that I am anxious to go away.
Authentic personal relationships sustained us through a tumultuous five years.
As a result of our tumultuousness, there abides in the American psyche an idea so powerful it ennoble us, and lifts us high above the problems which beset us. CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2005
He has been no stranger to controversy and vitriol during a tumultuous political career.
The tumultuous morass of geodesic structures is cobbled together from aluminum poles, plastic bags, bed sheets, and rope.
He sees, too, the possibilities of the near Future; how from that fine equipoise the soul might pass out into rare manifestations, appearing in the sweetness and simplicity of a little child, in the fearful tumultuousness of a Lady Macbeth, in the passionate tenderness of a The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861
Jeffrey was a tumultuous drinker and people would come from all around to watch him put it away.
The championship caps an even-more tumultuous than normal sixth season in pinstripes for Rodriguez, from the admission he took steroids earlier in his career to the March 9 arthroscopic hip surgery that sidelined him for the first 28 games of the season. At last, A-Rod wears World Series crown
The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
Stock markets around the world ended one of the darkest weeks in their history yesterday with a day of tumultuous trading as nervous dealers sent share prices gyrating wildly.
One of the most tumultuous rounds of cheering and applause was reserved by the delegates for a seemingly innocuous line about tax laws.
The air, which encouraged perspiration, was rich with many odours; voices endeavouring to make themselves audible in colloquy, swelled to a tumultuous volume that vied with the Hungarian clangours. In the Year of Jubilee
It is also unusual for Prokofiev to reflect on external events in his music - the fluffiness of the Classical Symphony, for example, came in 1917, the tumultuous year of the Russian Revolution.
New Zealand began accurately, Wales began badly, and never managed to stoke the crowd noise into something tumultuous.
Iceland sits precariously atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a vast undersea mountain range whose subsurface volcanoes account for much of the country's tumultuous terrain.
Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son. ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
The wind rushed upon her wildly, and dragged her tattered skirt this way and that, and fleered at her, and whistled at her; and when she paid not the slightest attention to his cruel treatment of her, fled tumultuously down the street. Dreamland
Sets of fans from either side are roaring on their team, the tumultuous noise drowning out the chill.
The speedup is the latest move in a tumultuous legislative session that followed last fall's midterm elections in which Republicans won the governorship and control of both chambers of the Legislature. The Seattle Times
In his scenes we have the infinitude of soft silver beach, the rolling tumultuousness of a boundless sea, and twisted cedars mounted like toiling ships on the crests of undulating sand-hills. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873
During her tumultuous time as deputy bureau chief in the late eighties, she proposed reassigning many reporters out, to other bureaus and lesser posts.
ZURICH/LOS ANGELES, Sept 27 Reuters - Fugitive director Roman Polanski, whose tumultuous life has overshadowed his film career, was arrested this weekend in Zurich after U.S. authorities sought to have him extradited to face sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. AS SEEN ON TV: ROMAN POLANSKI
The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
The church of Elgin had, in the intestine tumults of the barbarous ages, been laid waste by the irruption of a highland chief, whom the bishop had offended; but it was gradually restored to the state, of which the traces may be now discerned, and was at last not destroyed by the tumultuous violence of Knox, but more shamefully suffered to dilapidate by deliberate robbery and frigid indifference. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
No sound was heard but the splashing of the strange waves all around them, and the streamlike gurgle of the current, which threaded its way smoothly through the tossing, tumultuous sea. A Voyage to Arcturus
Reflecting the rivalrous aspirations of a tumultuous, multilayered and multicultural society, it voices itself in a multitude of apparently incongruous vocabularies of form.
To desire to keep the old body seems to me to argue a degree of sensual materialism excusable only in those pagans who in their Elysian fields could hope to possess only such a thin, fleeting, dreamy, and altogether funebrial existence, that they might well long for the thicker, more tangible bodily being in which they had experienced the pleasures of a tumultuous life on the upper world. Unspoken Sermons Series One
In these tumultuous times it is risky to make forecasts. The Sun
Although his original drive was to make money, he also wanted to escape his tumultuous life. Times, Sunday Times
If disturbing the peace (a public demonstration of boisterousness or "tumultuousness") is justification for making an arrest at any time, then the officer must be afforded the discretion of deciding in gray situations when the peace has been disturbed enough to warrant an arrest. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The specialty of Allegri was "putti" -- tumbling, tumultuous, tricksy putti. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists
She and her darling were looking over the window at the tumultuous crowd of children scrambling for Young Islay's bowl-money scattered by Black Duncan in the golden syver sand. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
Early on he felt uneasy about his role as a cameraperson filming vulnerable people in very tumultuous situations, undecided over whether he was exploring or exploiting.
Billowed in tumultuous joys and affianced, why you would but will it and your girl would have it. Miss her, Catullus? : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
C.S.C.), and read and enjoy the smart slating Mr. LEHMANN administers to tumid, tumultuous, thrasonic, turncoatist ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, for saying of the brilliant and well-beloved Author of _Fly Leaves_, &c., that he -- forsooth! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892
They decreed in tumultuous votes, * that his honors should be reversed, his titles erased from the public monuments, his statues thrown down, his body dragged with a hook into the stripping room of the gladiators, to satiate the public fury; and they expressed some indignation against those officious servants who had already presumed to screen his remains from the justice of the senate. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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