Sentence examples for before the tempest from inspiring English sources
"The Winter's Tale" is one of Shakespeare's lesser-known works, believed to have been written in 1610 or 1611, near the end of his career (shortly before "The Tempest") and his life.
Object manipulation brings the storm and breaking boat fully alive, and there's a beautiful moment of tension just before the tempest when the silence and creak of imminent catastrophe is beautifully realised.
The whole comedy is characterised by a special density of broken wit: atmospherically Shakespeare's most magnificent comedy before The Tempest, Measure for Measure's cloudy and knotted luminousness has nothing in common with the verse of previous comedies.
Hours before the tempest, the three top stewards of the nation's financial system — Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner Benn S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, and William C. Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York — had met to discuss how to react to shield the economy from the blow if Congress failed to raise the debt limit.
At the end of extra-time, and before the tempest of the penalty shoot-out, he swallowed a tablet to ease the pounding and the pill got stuck in his throat.
The story is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Its winter season begins at BAM, with a production (by Jay Scheib) of "Powder Her Face," by Thomas Adès, who, several years before writing "The Tempest," knocked England on its ear with this rollicking account of the scandalous sex life of the Duchess of Argyll.
I'd thought about The Tempest before, and written about it as well.
Theatergoers who do not know the story of "The Tempest" before might leave the theater with the impression that Prospero was a minor figure.
Prospero, the unjustly deposed Duke of Milan and self-taught sorcerer, spins the plot before our eyes, beginning with the tempest that lands the cast of characters on his private island.
His tiny storm-tossed boat, for example, becomes "a speck of substance before the driving terrors of the tempest"; and the men's sleep, after long and anxious watching, becomes so sound that "no dreams could break the strong fastenings of forgetfulness in which the mind was then locked up".
