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• s  characterized by violent emotions or behavior
• s  (of the elements) as if showing violent anger

• She presented her libidinous ways as a natural part of her tempestuous life: after all, Namu belongs to the Mosuo, a matrilineal tribe with a tradition of letting women take many .
• Sarah Churchill, 67, tempestuous, redhaired, green-eyed, actress-author daughter of Sir Winston Churchill; of renal failure; in London.
• And it is no stranger to tempestuous beginnings at an international park, at times caused by imposing a very American sensibility on foreign guests.

• stormy
• angry
• furious
• raging
• wild

News & Articles

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• MAULDIN: Economists Are Totally Clueless About The Economy
  Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again.
  June 16, 2013 - Business Insider
• Sea Of Red
  In the brief but tempestuous fight between Abe and the "deflation monster", the latter is now victoriously romping through an irradiated Tokyo, if last night's epic (ongoing) collapse in the Nikkei is any indication: down 6.4%, crushing anyone who listened to Goldman's "buy Nikkei" recommendation which has now been stopped out at a major loss in three days, and now well in bear-market territory ...
  June 13, 2013 - Zero Hedge
• Dining review: Ownership change bad for Pork Belly Grub Shack
  Reviewing restaurants is an act of journalism in which your critic (me) travels the region visiting all kinds of eateries to establish various benchmarks. It stands to reason that I will encounter a few excellent restaurants, along with a few so bad you might expect the tempestuous Gordon Ramsay to barge in and shout expletives as you choke down a dried-out hamburger that had been, oh, I dunno ...
  June 13, 2013 - The Sacramento Bee

Quotes

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• Thomas Jefferson in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty,wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1796.
• Harold Pinter in This is London
  Mr Brearley also directed the teenager as Romeo in a 1948 school play and Pinter describes his mentor as a "theatrical genius, tall, imperious, tempestuous and eccentric".
• Howard Taubman in New York Times
  As Howard Taubman wrote in his review in The New York Times, "I do not recall a Hamlet of such tempestuous manliness."