Sentence examples for by a tempest from inspiring English sources

For the last few days, the rivalry was overshadowed by a tempest involving Williams's father and comments by Hingis chastising him.

In "Destruction" the state is swallowed by a tempest of smoke and fire; finally "Desolation" reigns at the site, now a pile of rubble, with only decayed traces of humanity.

It's Act II, Scene 3. The Venetian Army is on Cyprus, and in festive spirits: the enemy Turkish fleet has been conveniently destroyed by a tempest, and the Venetian general, Othello, just married and feeling great about it, declares an evening of feasting.

Unfortunately, that serenity has been replaced by a tempest, and a good bit of denial about the impact on the landscape.

One need not actually embark on an ill-fated sea voyage, be rocked by a tempest, then tossed overboard, get swallowed by a huge fish, spend a prayerful spell deep in its belly, and finally be spat up on the verge of the destination one was meant to reach in the first place, in order to have the experience Jonah describes.

Mr. Gehry called the attention generated by the stains "a tempest in a teapot," adding that the problem arose when the building contractor allowed a silicon-based fireproofing sealant to spill onto some titanium panels.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, who qualified as a Romantic by the exacting test of expiring a month before his 30th birthday, became oceanic by dying in a tempest on the Mediterranean, had Byron as a mourner at his funeral pyre, and was in any case partly exempted from the latter's contempt by the otherwise extremely stormy career that he pursued.

One Republican urologist outside Orlando has stirred up a tempest by suggesting that they do.

Just last month, Ms. Davis, famous for her rangy frame, pillowy lips and piano keyboard smile, created a tempest by turning up at the Emmy Awards in a Pamela Dennis dress so sheer she might just as well have worn nothing at all.

Sabatini, who has spent the last few years analyzing U.S.-Cuba relations, referred to recent statements by some Republicans as a "tempest in a teapot".

'The Tempest', Bermuda This magical tale is thought to have been inspired by a real tempest that wrecked an English fleet off the coast of Bermuda in 1609, stranding the crew of the Sea Venture.