tempestuous
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Tempestuous and impulsive by nature, she made headlines again in 2006, when, at age 79, she announced that she would marry a man 34 years her junior.
From Reuters • Jan. 16, 2023
Tempestuous £95,000-a-week striker Craig Bellamy, who turns 31 this week, has told he can leave by Manchester City.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2010
Tempestuous Diva Maria Callas gave her first U.S. recital of the season in Kansas City, Mo., showed a celebrity-studded white-tie S.R.O. audience that she is as great a performer as she is a singer.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Tempestuous Petticoat, one of the children, Clare Leighton, now a U.S. wood engraver, has set out to remember mania in all her Edwardian glory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tempestuous times called forth the genius of our ancestors.
From A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements by Tacitus, Cornelius
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