Sentences with word «tempestuous»

The Case Against: — On settling down after decades of tempestuous relationships, Wurtzel writes, «When I was ready to fall in love for real, I stopped behaving badly, and I met someone great, and great for me.»

One of the most famous of tempestuous marriages was the relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Other situations may show in tempestuous relationships, where anger is very much a driving force.

The Last Station Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: Michael Hoffman's bittersweet story of Leo and Sofya Tolstoy, whose tempestuous marriage of nearly 50 years unraveled shortly before the author's death, is worth it for the performances alone.

Taken in aggregate the various signals, like channel buoys frantically bobbing in tempestuous seas, cause bankers and economists to express conflicting views about the severity of the market turmoil and whether the global financial system is sound.

After ten long and often tempestuous years, they never have to see each other again.

There was a protracted battle with alcohol and a formative and highly tempestuous romance with the conceptual artist Tracey Emin, who would go on to become a member of the so - called Young British Artists — an insider and media darling, in contrast to Childish's position as perennial outsider.

Synopsis: This is the true story of Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) and her husband Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), the larger - than - life painters who became the most acclaimed artists in Mexican history, and whose tempestuous love affair, landmark journeys to America, and outrageous personalities made them legendary.

An actress falls in love and marries a New Wave filmmaker only to discover he is every bit as tempestuous as the turmoil of late 1960s France.

Nevertheless the men rowed hard to return to land, but they could not, for the sea continued to grow more tempestuous against them.

Sekula Gibbs was widely regarded as unelectable by Republicans due to her brief but tempestuous time in office following the resignation of former congressman Tom DeLay (R).

We are to rest in Jesus our true ark, who will carry us through tempestuous waters.

For almost two years, William Adams and his crew had braved wild and tempestuous oceans.

Since her early childhood, lake storms have been a frightening symbol both of devastation and attraction, and the sense of tempestuous waters appears frequently in her work.

Being a PR person, I can not begin to count the numerous special favours we derived from those great editors who put national interests ahead of the need to publish and be damned at a most tempestuous period in our nation's history.

Saoirse Ronan stars as the self - monikered Lady Bird, whose tempestuous relationship with her mother (Laurie Metcalf), her resentment toward and dissatisfaction with her lower - middle class Sacramento provenance, and her up - and - down relationships with two very different boys (Lucas Hedges and Timothée Chalamet) give this special film its loose plot engine.

Recreation of a classic 1980 tennis showdown at Wimbledon is helped by stellar acting - and gives its formerly tempestuous star Shia LaBeouf a perfect comeback role.

[3] In 1970 Schueler wrote that his painting «must be a search and a requiem» and his work began to reflect a «less tempestuous awareness of natural elements.»

Played with angry conviction by Walters, Lucy is the most tempestuous figure on - screen by far, and there are moments when her rage almost feels like more than this delicate, winsome movie can bear.

The Dutch Golden Age of painting in the 17th century was marked by an explosion of different genres of painting from tempestuous seascapes to intimate still lifes, as they moved away from the religious works that had preceded them in the Baroque era.

But since NASA's Juno probe reached the solar system's largest planet last July, they've found it to be a far more tempestuous place than they realized.

But this major scientific work was not published until 1704, as a result of one of the most protracted personality clashes of Newton's tempestuous career: he was unable, and never learned, to cope with criticism of any kind, and he did not suffer fools gladly.

Sean Casey (Garcia) is just another idealistic assistant D.A. - until his prosecution of a cop - killing drug lord catapults him into the center of New York's tempestuous political arena.

Her curvaceous form is covered in scribbles that look like tempestuous emotions and opinions coursing through her body.

First announced in 2013, it has endured an appropriately tempestuous development, often sailing as close to the rocks as its ill - fated protagonist.

Adding a much different flavor to the list is «Kalifornia», a twisted road thriller featuring a particularly tempestuous relationship between the violent, aggressive Early (Brad Pitt) and the simple, naive Adele (Juliette Lewis).

New CEO or not, the startup is oriented toward aggressive growth, and its tendency to push boundaries likely hasn't vanished after a handful of months without tempestuous Kalanick at the head.

Big Idea: Likely to be looking for a new role now that she will be stepping down from Shine, the independent TV production company she founded after a successful but tempestuous spell as No. 2 at her father's U.K. satellite broadcaster BSkyB and then sold to 21st Century Fox in 2011; now being merged with Big Brother - maker Endemol and American Idol producer Core Media; seen as more business - proven than Lachlan and not phone hacking - tainted like James.

Elle Fanning tackles the presumably Oscar - courting title role in this biopic of the Frankenstein author, whose unusual and tempestuous personal life is a rare case of an author's own story being nearly as compelling as her legendary fiction.

Patti Davis, keenly remembered for being labelled as a somewhat tempestuous First Daughter during the Reagan administration, is one such author.

In the last six years of being an author, through tempestuous changes in the publishing world, I have learned the business side of being a writer and I now earn a good living as an author - entrepreneur.

The study starts with observations of eroding ice sheets spreading, cooler freshwater at both ends of the planet and geological hints of tempestuous conditions toward the end of the Eemian, that last interval between ice ages when global temperatures and seas were higher than now.

Tempestuous doesn't even begin to cover it.

By Sean Ryan Stiffer penalties are threatening an already tempestuous relationship between builders and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Ms. Clifford chose a more tempestuous stage name than most peers.

There are those who are by nature placid and even lethargic, and there are tempestuous beings whose passions are at white heat and whose temper is on a hair trigger.

Our most complex and tempestuous moral issues today are biotechnological — these not only live in the often dark interstices between science and morality but also demand a serious reflection on the limits of human nature and the natural conditions necessary for human flourishing.

As such, it remains to be seen whether the four will be able to adapt to the notoriously tempestuous English game.

Raised in the working - class neighborhood of Porta Metronia, he exudes flamboyance and wit, mixed with a calculating and occasionally tempestuous personality.

Manchester United will have the chance to add the Europa League to their bulging trophy cabinet after edging through a frantic, tempestuous semi-final against Celta Vigo.

If you haven't seen the film, in brief, the 20 - something Vicky and Cristina are friends spending the summer in Barcelona with Vicky's parent's friends, Judy and Mark, and end up in a complicated love triangle of sorts with a seductive artist, Juan Antonio, complicated even further when his former wife, Maria Elena — a talented and tempestuous artist whose passion excites and destroys — reappears.

We watch its yearly transformation from summer's peaceful blues to blankets of icy white to tempestuous grays during the temperamental months of spring.

It is keeping in the true tradition of a Senate, which is supposed to be a moderating force between the more tempestuous lower house and the executive arm.

What is certain is that Brown faces a second successive tempestuous summer in which his leadership will be subjected to relentless, brutal scrutiny.

Most likely, Meech says, the object is an outcast from another star system: a space rock flung out during the star's tempestuous youth when it was surrounded by freshly - formed giant planets embedded in a disk of debris.