Sentence examples for raged around him from inspiring English sources

He died aged 57, while the worst human conflict the world had yet seen still raged around him.

King Lear, Shakespeare tells us, was "minded like the weather" — as charged and turbulent as the storm that raged around him on the heath.

As the First World War raged around him, the Viennese composer Franz Schreker was writing an opera that would use a lush and decadent setting as a platform for a pitiless examination of personal morality.

By Russell Platt As the First World War raged around him, the Viennese composer Franz Schreker was writing an opera that would use a lush and decadent setting as a platform for a pitiless examination of personal morality.

Disappointed, he plonked himself down on an empty chair as mayhem raged around him, and to his surprise was approached by a young woman who told him: "You're next".

Pepys's youthful bouts of illness left him with a ferocious ability to live in the present moment: to grab what happiness and pleasure he could, even as plague and political cacophony raged around him.

During the Warsaw Uprising, battles raged around Holy Cross, and the building suffered heavy damage.

Two other devastating fires have raged around Los Alamos in 23 years.

Controversy, however, raged around the conduct of the trials and the proper use of the drug.

Ever since, much of hockey's thunder and lightning has raged around Lindros.

Before the internet, it is hard to imagine the debate that raged around the hapless Ms Zhang.