They may not have anticipated a miracle, but they did expect tempestuous shifts in the political winds.
The solar wind, whether steady or tempestuous, is formed when such matter breaks up into streams of particles, mostly electrons.
At night, five or six human beings, naked and scarcely protected from the wind and rain of this tempestuous climate, sleep on the wet ground coiled up like animals.
The new study generated a picture of a tempestuous future by closely tracking sea temperature and wind shear measurements over the last century -- taken by ships and weather balloons -- and comparing patterns with the frequency, severity and tracks of hurricanes from the 1940's until now.
Marseilles, a necessary retreat in the midst of a tempestuous sea; Marseilles, a harbor which all the winds, the shelves of the sea, the disposition of the coasts, point out for a landing-place, became frequented by mariners; while the sterility of the adjacent country determined the citizens to an economical commerce.
As few American films have, "Gone With the Wind" succeeds both as historical epic and as intimate drama, telling of the tempestuous Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled, headstrong Southern beauty who resolves to survive the ravages of the Civil War only to discover the high price that her ruthless determination exacts.
An alluring tapestry of hazy brass chorales, mysterious wind solos, shimmering textures and otherworldly waves of sound, the work ebbs and flows between languid and tempestuous moods, its subtleties vividly illuminated by the Finnish ensemble.
It is an image popularized in films like Emil Loteanu's Soviet-era "Queen of the Gypsies," whose heroes are free as the wind: Zobar is a bold and courageous horse thief; Rada, his love, bewitches men with her dark eyes and tempestuous dancing.
For anyone wondering why the weather was so tempestuous, the answer was displayed there in the cirrus, all pulled in the same direction by the jet stream winds.
