(n.) A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) His full-time appointment would quell this wearisome rumpus.
(2) She left Rodríguez Lozano to live with Dr Atl in La Merced, causing a public scandal second in rumpus only to the scandal caused by their separation, two years later, which included loud public screaming, buckets of cold water thrown at each other, death threats, and defamatory pamphlets pasted on the doors of the ex-convent.
(3) Miliband's remarks last week triggered a diplomatic rumpus.
(4) Which brings us to the other big rumpus of the week, caused by the new old bore on the block, Nick Kyrgios – old because his antics are also a throwback to the 1970s, to the behaviour that posed a justified threat to institutional sleepiness.
(5) Also responsible for two of the broadcaster’s biggest hits of 2014, The Jump and The Island with Bear Grylls (not without a rumpus of its own), Humphreys can expect another kerfuffle with Sex in Class, in which Belgian sex therapist Goedele Liekens takes her campaign to establish a GCSE in sex education into the homes and schools of Britain.
(6) He was a banker, deeply in the closet, when he stumbled on a rumpus outside the Stonewall Inn 40 years ago.
(7) And she enjoyed the rumpus when her 50,000-word New Yorker article, Raising Kane, reprinted in The Citizen Kane Book (1971), challenged Orson Welles's one-man view of his masterpiece.
(8) It would take the War Room in Dr Strangelove, Goldfinger's rumpus room and the interior of Fort Knox to thrust Adam into the limelight.
(9) Almost a year on from the televised press conference at Rotherham football club that made her name, Jay still can’t believe the rumpus her report caused.
(10) 3 John Terry The captaincy rumpus, the revolt and defensive fraility The mutterings from some within the squad as they departed the Free State Stadium last night were that things were simply not right behind the scenes, with discontent welling up within the set-up.
(11) Paul Evans, the managing director of Rumpus PR, where Martyn worked, said: “We are all distraught at the tragic loss of our much-loved, larger than life, colourful and charismatic colleague, Martyn Hett.
(12) "I was never ever found to have done anything wrong, even in the rumpus over the Soon and Baliunas paper.
(13) There was another call, “telling me off about the rumpus I caused at the conference.
(14) In 2003, he headbutted a policeman in a Paris casino rumpus and was subsequently fined and given a suspended jail term, tactlessly telling the press that to assault a cop was “the dream of every Frenchman”.
(15) There might still have been dry retching, and it might have mainly come from me, but any rumpus would have been nothing to do with their ages.
(16) The atheists were set to create even more rumpus this year after snaffling most booths in a first-come first-served lottery system, prompting the city council to ban all displays.
(17) Martyn loved life, he celebrated it every day and packed it to the brim with his passions,” his employer, the PR company Rumpus, said.
(18) It has also acknowledged the limits of its own research, noting the work of, for example, Roxane Gay, who undertook a similar tally last summer for writers of colour, which she published in The Rumpus .
Turmoil
Definition:
(n.) Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion.
(v. t.) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
(v. i.) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
Example Sentences:
(1) He deploys a zero-risk strategy aimed at keeping his rightwing political base behind him, while convincing the public that he alone could lead the country in times of regional turmoil.
(2) A six-month uprising by the rebel group M23, led by war crimes suspect Bosco "the Terminator" Ntaganda, has caused fresh turmoil in eastern Congo and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
(3) The centre-left PD party, for example, is in turmoil - with leader Pier Luigi Bersani resigning over the weekend after both his favoured candidates for the presidency were rejected.
(4) However, following the management turmoil that engulfed the BBC in the autumn as it struggled to deal with the Savile scandal, there have been calls for the role to be reinstated.
(5) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
(6) With the eurozone unravelling and world markets in turmoil, threatening even the meagre recovery the UK economy had achieved since the onset of the credit crunch, he repeatedly evokes a mood of national emergency to explain why the coalition he forged with David Cameron is the right government for the times.
(7) Running ITV is likely to prove a tough challenge given the ongoing turmoil in the advertising market, with some advocating that the company needs a turnaround specialist or a leader who will enable the company to exploit digital technology.
(8) They watch her life crumble as she's subjected to further turmoil through pregnancy or marital crisis.
(9) It demonstrated the turmoil facing Lucas, a £6m talent whose desperation to impress increases with every sporadic appearance, that the Kop began chanting Alonso's name after 36 minutes.
(10) Against the backdrop of market turmoil, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned that global growth will be weaker than previously expected .
(11) Against the backdrop of a faltering global economy, turmoil in the country’s stock markets and overcapacity in factories, Chinese economic growth has slowed markedly.
(12) The public, buffeted by weather fluctuations and economic turmoil, has little time to analyse decadal changes.
(13) British officials played down the turmoil in the NTC, insisting it was linked directly to the investigation into the killing of Younes.
(14) Yet while its problems are well documented, it's often difficult to get a sense of what it's like for the artists caught up in the turmoil.
(15) Alex Wynaendts, chief executive, said the deal would "strengthen Aegon's position during this period of uncertainty and unprecedented economic turmoil" and provide an improved capital buffer.
(16) But, since then, it has fallen to around $1,660 (£1,047) defying predictions – and the hopes of speculators – that it would continue to hit new peaks during the ongoing financial turmoil.
(17) While political turmoil could make London's townhouses an even more attractive safe haven for wealthy Russians and Ukrainians, a spokesperson said: "We've seen no real change and nor do we expect any."
(18) The majority of these children come from Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador – three of the many countries ravaged by civil strife, drug wars and economic turmoil precipitated by US political and military intervention over several decades, as well as free-trade regimes and the corporate plunder of Latin America's natural resources.
(19) Efforts to unite the disparate groups have until now been lost in a myriad of competing ambitions and decades of political turmoil.
(20) Political turmoil in a state western counter-terrorism agencies have been able to rely on would also have "far-reaching consequences for the Arab-Israel relationship and regional instability", a former senior intelligence official said.