Sentence examples for evil winds from inspiring English sources

There are bad winds and mad winds and evil winds and a bad moon.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's 500,000-word trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings," the struggle between good and evil winds up with the War of the Ring.

He is accused of "inciting evil winds" and "lighting evil fires" through visits to restive regions like Tibet and Xinjiang, and of being a "guide dog" for Chen Guangcheng, a blind activist whose asylum in America he engineered.

It illustrates the missing-arms aspect of the larger phenomenon that came to be called "blowback," the ways in which American money and guns for the anti-Soviet mujahedeen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989 generated evil winds that blew back on the United States.

Evil winds buffeted the Queen Elizabeth 2 yesterday morning as it docked at Pier 88 on the West Side of Manhattan and hundreds of shivering passengers headed up the gangplank, pelted by a pitiless confetti of snow under a titanium-gray sky.

Instead, the old patriarch turned east and genuflected, as though to ward off some evil wind that was turning his way".

By Ted Walker The New Yorker, March 1 , 1982P. 42 The easterly is an evil wind that blows along the English Channel coast sometimes in winter.

An evil wind rips around our ears as we "pick" replanted yellowing leeks, their hearts still sound as though in suspended animation.

FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y. - With an evil wind gusting and a hard-hitting countryman across the net, Rafael Nadal faced the most daunting challenge yet Thursday in his quest to win the 2010 U.S. Open.

"An evil wind of extremism, of hatred, of malice, of violence, of running amok, of breaking the law, of contempt for the institutions of the state is blowing through certain sections of the Israeli public and threatens Israeli democracy," Mr. Olmert said, adding that it was affecting "the ability of those entrusted by the state of Israel to make decisions".

But it was the river, not an "evil wind," that had let him down.