(n.) An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
(n.) Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion; as, a political tempest; a tempest of war, or of the passions.
(n.) A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
(v. t.) To disturb as by a tempest.
(v. i.) To storm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whatever conclusion the crowd might have drawn, what's striking is that Tempest's poem couldn't be ignored: the conviction and drama of her performance forced a reaction and coloured the rest of the evening.
(2) More than once, she replies to a question by wrinkling her nose and saying: “It’s all in the book.” Tempest can’t quite see why the breadth of her output – songs, poems, plays, a novel – is notable, because it’s all about writing and performance.
(3) He has a fixation with islands (Cyprus, Sicily, The Tempest 's nameless "isle").
(4) At the time, Dimon publicly dismissed the concerns about the trading activities, calling them a "complete tempest in a teapot".
(5) The work won the Ted Hughes award even without Tempest's charismatic live delivery – the judges heard a recorded version but were still unanimous in their decision.
(6) The weather had Shakespearean timing but this was a tempest not just for the police, whose militarised response affronted worldwide opinion, or their political masters, but for local and national black leaders.
(7) If you say, ‘This is Kate Tempest and she’s a poet-rapper-playwright,’ it sounds confusing and ridiculous and a bit naff.
(8) And like Caliban in The Tempest, his profit from this British education is that he knows the British language well enough and uses it to curse them.
(9) The only thing that was weird was being a girl, I suppose, but I’ve kind of made my peace with that.” But British hip-hop was a crowded field and Tempest couldn’t get a record deal.
(10) Tempest's piece follows these conventions, but transcends them.
(11) In Hall’s farewell season of Shakespeare’s late romances in 1988, he led the company alongside Michael Bryant and Eileen Atkins , playing a clenched and possessed Leontes in The Winter’s Tale; an Italianate, jesting Iachimo in Cymbeline; and a gloriously drunken Trinculo in The Tempest (he played Prospero for Adrian Noble at the Theatre Royal, Bath, in 2012).
(12) It’s a direct response to south London.” Around the time of the G8 summit at Gleneagles in 2005, Tempest had an intensely political phase.
(13) While addressing Britain’s parliament in 2015 Xi quoted Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
(14) The common thread through Tempest's diverse work is her love of words.
(15) It was the Poetry Society that awarded Tempest the Ted Hughes poetry prize in 2013 for Brand New Ancients, a narrative work that told a tale of everyday heroics, false gods and fierce hopes in modern-day London over tuba, violin, drums, electronics.
(16) Kate Tempest – one of the few well-known poets to have performed at Glastonbury and with grime MCs – has pipped six others to win the Ted Hughes award for innovation in poetry.
(17) Dimon, president and chief operating officer of JP Morgan, had initially dismissed talks of the "London whale" and mounting losses at the bank as a tempest in a teapot.
(18) René Brunel, who wrote about the Aissawa in the 1920s, described his experience of 'the furious tempest of drums and oboes', saying the spectators were 'in the grip of the terrifying staccato music seized by this contagious madness and ecstatic frenzy which none can resist'.
(19) Ongoing tempest For all his smooth talking, it is likely that the most memorable line to emerge from the career of JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon will be his crack about a "tempest in a teapot".
(20) Meteorites, The Universe, Road to the Stars, Planet of Tempests, The Moon, et al.
Tempestuous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Jets have overperformed to this point, reaching the halfway stage at a respectable 4-4, when many had expected them to struggle in the wake of a tempestuous offseason.
(2) Spurs’ title hopes were abruptly ended following a tempestuous match in which 12 players were booked by the referee, Mark Clattenburg.
(3) Among the big names in the running for the awards are Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter, who are recognised for their portrayal of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a BBC4 drama based on the couple's tempestuous life together.
(4) It seems that Malema's dramatic and tempestuous political career may be over for now.
(5) This derby bore little resemblance to the tempestuous Merseyside affairs against Everton – of which Gerrard played in 33 – and he was withdrawn three minutes from time.
(6) In 2007 Winehouse married Blake Fielder-Civil, a part-time gopher for a music video company with whom she had been having an on-off tempestuous relationship.
(7) Notwithstanding tempestuous progress in the development of monoclonal antibody kits, culturing of Coxsackie viruses will continue to be of substantive importance to diagnosis, because of the small size of pathogens.
(8) Before the long balmy era we have enjoyed over the past 10,000 years, climate was often much more tempestuous.
(9) He left his children's mother for Emmanuelle star Sylvia Kristel , with whom he had a brief, hedonistic, tempestuous relationship with violence on both sides.
(10) Among the big names in the running for the awards are Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter, who are recognised for their portrayal of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in a BBC4 drama based on the couple's tempestuous life together with leading actor and actress award nominations.
(11) Prominent substance abuse history, tempestuous biographies, and unstable early home environment were common to all diagnostic subgroups.
(12) Eight years later they'd meet again at Villa Park, Rafael Albrecht getting himself sent off for kneeing Helmut Haller in the swingers during a tempestuous (but goalless) group game.
(13) Mourinho, reviled in Spain following his tempestuous spell at Real Madrid, made it known in the build up that it was Hazard, and not Cristiano Ronaldo, who deserved to be known as the second best player on earth.
(14) Roy Keane has described himself as living with a “self-destruct button” as he looks back over his tempestuous career and tries to explain his old drinking habits and how difficult he found it to adjust to life after playing football.
(15) The birth of the parliament in Edinburgh has been tempestuous, with rows over Section 28, the mounting cost of the parliament building and the exam results fiasco.
(16) At a tempestuous session of the self-proclaimed supreme council of the Donetsk People's Republic on Tuesday afternoon, there was shouting and arguing about the best way forward, and the divisions between different strands of the movement were apparent.
(17) Over the tempestuous decade of his 1970s glory years, Bowie illuminated popular culture in a way unequalled since, and which is unimaginable in the X Factor era.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vice-president Joice Mujuru, formerly known as Spill Blood, has an often tempestuous relationship with Grace Mugabe.
(19) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
(20) But her announcement, following the departure this year of Behan's predecessor, Cynthia Bower, will have drawn much of the sting from what was likely to have been a tempestuous hearing.