Adjective : the tempestuous ocean. ,a tempestuous wind. ,a tempestuous period in history. From Dictionary.com.
I think it was a remarkable situation that actually ended up pretty darn good given the tempestuousness of the times. From Wordnik.com. [a turning point in modern politics: just watch me « raincoaster] Reference
The bystanders were moved according to their temperaments and religious views, but all were touched by the tempestuousness of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
This tranquility seemed at odds with what we had heard of the chef/owner Paul Liebrandt, who has developed a reputation for tempestuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of Spring in New York] Reference
Wiktor sat beside her on the piano bench and gazed at her distraught face, seeing for the first time some of the tempestuousness that plagued her. From Wordnik.com. [Poland]
Crist would have watched in futility as his chances for Senate retirement would have disintegrated in the cauldron of primary day tempestuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Charles D. Ellison: GOP Moderates Spearheading a Third Party Option] Reference
In my youth I knew already the mean cuts of Lear and what it is to be divorced of all men alone in the tempestuousness of justified madness, that has true cause. From Wordnik.com. [Mr.Dostoevsky] Reference
Their principal provisions and household furniture were therefore put on several small vessels, which, by reason of delays and the tempestuousness of the season, were cast away. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
RICHMOND -- In the past year Joe Gibbs has dealt with a veteran athlete's reconstructive surgery, a coveted free agent's bouts of brilliance and tempestuousness, and a gifted rookie's coming of age. From Wordnik.com. [In life after Redskins, racing and family keep Gibbs feeling fortunate] Reference
Géricault learned from Caravaggio all about chiaroscuro, and then went on to discover by himself a way of depicting human life and death in a painting that contains both natural tempestuousness and compositional calm. From Wordnik.com. [Revolutionary Romanticism] Reference
The tempestuousness of the weather, having driven him far out of his course; his only wishes and prayer is, oh, that he might be so happy, but for a moment to see his Beacon, those twinkling eys of his dearly beloved Margery Mussel!. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
I longed to share the tempestuousness of his life and thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Mirror] Reference
John Terry, in highlighting the dangers of taking away the tempestuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Now night had turned into dawn and debate into occasional tempestuousness when, at 7 a.m. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Top Stories] Reference
Obed's tempestuousness may have hastened that man's departure, but it did not secure my safety. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret] Reference
No brashness, arrogance, tempestuousness or impatience -- he was actually charming, almost nice. From Wordnik.com. [BrothersJudd Blog] Reference
The bystanders were moved according to their temperaments and religious views, but all were touched by the tempestuousness of Lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
Notwithstanding the tempestuousness of the times, and the general wreck of British authority, it had yet preserved a steady obedience to. From Wordnik.com. [The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816] Reference
The bystanders were moved according to their temperaments and religious views, but all were touched by the tempestuousness of Lady Burton's grief. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton]
I have enjoyed its moonlight and its calmness all the summer; and am prepared to enjoy its tempestuousness of the winter with as true an enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)] Reference
Amid the darkness, and tempestuousness, and growing perils of these latter ages, she should be a Pharos-tower, giving light and life to tempted man. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Maiden] Reference
The color of her hair, the shape of her nose, the tempestuousness of her disposition, the difficulty she experienced in fitting her restless and encroaching nature into what was merely one of. From Wordnik.com. [The Madigans] Reference
The photograph seems to capture the Neo-classical origins of Peter's "Window on the West" along with its physical tempestuousness and its "relationship with solitariness and timelessness," Ipolitov said. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Petersburg Times] Reference
We're not hating on K.O.L., mind you, but after catching Nokia last Saturday, it was hard not to think about the Southern retro-rockers du jour, also a product of brotherly love and boozy tempestuousness. From Wordnik.com. [LA Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference
Here the musical sister introduced roiling right-hand arpeggios to evoke the threatening elements, but the tempestuousness of a great composer is not in evidence: the harmonies move up from D Major through predictably intermediate chords, to A Major and the cadence, and then do this again and again, the sonorities dogging the rhyme scheme as the music gestures grandly in the parlor sublime. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
And there was comparable head scratching over other Beethovenian innovations: the harmonically ambiguous, meandering opening of the First Symphony; the ominous - sounding timpani, tuned in diminished fifths, in Florestan's aria in the opera Fidelio; the use of four light, solo timpani strokes to begin the Violin Concerto; the violent starting and stopping in the first movement of the Fifth Symphony and the merging of the third and fourth movements into a single continuum; the imitations of nature in the "Pastoral" Symphony (although in this case the precedents were many); the tempestuousness and vehemence of many parts of the piano sonatas; and above all, the unprecedented technical demands that the vast majority of Beethoven's works made on instrumentalists and singers. From Wordnik.com. ['The Ninth'] Reference
Thanks to the candor with which he exposes a love that in the end overcomes all lies, despite all its tempestuousness this almost four-hour-long but nonetheless extremely entertaining film never loses its tension for even a single moment. ". From Wordnik.com. [Ai no mukidashi - Berlinale 2009, Forum] Reference
I've experienced the ordinary seasickening tempestuousness. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Aroostook] Reference
(Of course, unshockingly, Tazusa's tempestuousness declines as the show weaves its way to. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
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