Sentence examples for destroyed by a tempest from inspiring English sources

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.

In one of these stelae, known as the "Tempest Stele", he claims to have rebuilt the pyramids of his predecessors at Thebes that had been destroyed by a major storm.

A community destroyed by floodwaters?

They were just — the sinners were described as cranes who were being buffeted about by a tempest.

Destroyed by an earthquake.

The camera can deceive the viewer about scale, however, and the model makers and special effects technicians can reproduce virtually anything in miniature, from the aurora borealis shining on an igloo to a tempest destroying the Spanish Armada.

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

'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.

Behind her left shoulder a tempest rages, struck by bolts of lightning.

By Robert Hillyer The New Yorker, March 19 , 1938P. 20 "What a tempest of light on the wing, View Article By Rebecca Mead By Anthony Lane By Atul Gawande By George Packer.

"This is a tempest in a teapot by people who know better," she said.