The adjective "tumultuous" is often used to describe the events of the 1960s. ❋ Melanie Kirkpatrick (2010)
Her “red deeps,” as she termed her tumultuous feelings, became exacerbated at Johns Hopkins, where her love for another woman was not reciprocated. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Billowed in tumultuous joys and affianced, why you would but will it and your girl would have it. ❋ Unknown (2007)
His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives inat least this is true in tumultuous, revolutionary ages like our ownbut before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape. ❋ Unknown (1946)
Her spoon was gone; that was beyond question, and Daisy's little spirit was in tumultuous disturbance – very uncommon indeed with her. ❋ Unknown (1907)
Tweed lied to Goody about his occupation, age and heritage on their first meeting, but the couple still entered a long-term tumultuous relationship. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The gates of the city were thrown open, and the new emperor of the Romans, encompassed on every side by the Gothic arms, was conducted, in tumultuous procession, to the palace of Augustus and ❋ Unknown (1206)
They decreed in tumultuous votes, * that his honors should be reversed, his titles erased from the public monuments, his statues thrown down, his body dragged with a hook into the stripping room of the gladiators, to satiate the public fury; and they expressed some indignation against those officious servants who had already presumed to screen his remains from the justice of the senate. ❋ Unknown (1206)
Attorney Vincent Romano, who represents Porcelli hopes that Buoneto recorded the intense discussion that he had with his client in August, on the last day of what the lawyer described as a tumultuous and terrifying two-week ordeal for Porcelli, who has a 19-year-long history of anxiety and depression, according to the attorney. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He called the tumultuous period since those attacks '' 19 months that changed the world, '' and said Mr. Hussein's defeat was a defeat for al-Qaeda and other terrorists as well .... ❋ Unknown (2009)
Jill's thoughts can be most aptly described as tumultuous, but her smile was a festival of youth as she watched the Arab, in whom she had put her trust, walk up the long avenue, stop, and clap his hands. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)
Donna Anderson breaks down in tears when she recalls her tumultuous childhood with the ❋ Unknown (2010)
In fact, his relationship with the style and its adherent community can be characterized as tumultuous at best. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The new system of secret voting which was now adopted has required, it is true, to be further purified by the recent Corrupt Practices Bill and its stringent provisions; but no one, whose memory is long enough to recall the tumultuous and discreditable scenes attendant on elections under the old system, will be inclined to deny that much that was flagrantly disgraceful as well as dishonest has been swept away by the reforming energy of our own day. ❋ Annie E. Keeling (N/A)
Why all this interest -- besides the curiosity as to whether or not the arresting officer had ever once in his life previously used the word "tumultuous" in a sentence? ❋ Unknown (2009)
But the story of Henry Louis Gates Jr. is making for hot copy; Gates getting busted in his own home for being "tumultuous," "secretly reading," and for "general uppitiness". ❋ Unknown (2009)
Apparently when men of color voice their anger at unequal treatment, bias and hypocrisy, it's labeled "tumultuous," formerly known as "uppity," but when loud, belligerent white male commentators bark it on talk radio, they can make millions for simply "telling it like it is." ❋ Unknown (2009)
Think, in that kind of tumultuous environment, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific will keep us immune, will not deleteriously (VERY deleteriously!) effect YOU? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Being a fan of UK pop group the Sugababes has often been "tumultuous" to say the least. ❋ Glenn Dunks (2009)
My [roommate] Brandon is [tumultuous] when he plays [Halo]. ❋ Jamal Prokolony (2010)
