On the other side the bright sky sucks up the surrounding conurbation while on the front, a man with a massive spliff falls from the clouds.
In a natural water cycle, rainwater falls from the clouds on to the land, nourishes life, returns through rivers to the salty sea and evaporates as fresh water back into the clouds.
Samaras is squeezed between the demagoguery of this rampant right and the populism of the left-wing anti-austerity Syriza party, which is promising to restore most if not all of what has been lost since Greece, in the local phrase, fell from the clouds.
Indeed, no sooner had Carr grasped the significance of Mt. Gorongosa than he discovered that the rain forest that covered the mountain — simultaneously capturing the water that fell from the clouds and, through evaporation, replenishing it — was being destroyed, piecemeal but steadily, by local practitioners of slash-and-burn agriculture.
A young pop star eager for fame and money makes a deal for a few promising beans with a grizzled music manager-publisher he meets on the road to town; the youngster climbs the beanstalk that grows up, and fights the giant at the top, only to find, on his descent, that the grizzled vet has made off with most of the fortune that fell from the clouds.
That water was called aqua pluvia which fell from the clouds, and overflowed in consequence of showers, and the prevention of injury to land from such water was the object of this action.
Condensation of water vapor forms larger water droplets, and when the droplets are heavy enough they will fall from the clouds as rain.
When the heroine sighted her errant husband's ship, a ton of cherry blossoms fell from the clouds to underscore her rapture.
A story from Banat, which was held as true until the 1950s, says that before World War I, an exhausted ala in the form of a giant snake fell from the clouds onto a road.
