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  • When he was ten, Avery lived with abusive foster parents whose rigid rules kept him in constant turmoil.†   (source)
  • He closed the door behind him with a snap, leaving Harry in a state of worse turmoil than before: Snape had been his very last hope.†   (source)
  • His insides burned with turmoil.†   (source)
  • Reynie and Sticky tried to appear unconcerned, but their minds were in turmoil.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Mooreland was in turmoil.†   (source)
  • I was scared and worried about what turmoil the next day might bring.†   (source)
  • Robbie was familiar with the household and would have started something off, but he too was in turmoil.†   (source)
  • The story of Cain and Abel represents the turmoil with us.†   (source)
  • They were clannish, responding to the harshness and turmoil of their environment by forming tight family bonds and placing loyalty to blood above all else.†   (source)
  • Lastly, in these times of treason and turmoil, with our beloved Robert so lately dead, it is the view of the council that the life and safety of King Joffrey is of paramount importance ….†   (source)
  • There's a lot of turmoil down South, in the areas with a heavy concentration of lower castes.†   (source)
  • We're so fortunate here, away from the turmoil.†   (source)
  • The set is in turmoil.†   (source)
  • While his mouth answered these everyday questions, Artemis's mind was in turmoil.†   (source)
  • Or maybe she's just sore because her boycott of Ho's Deli is creating serious turmoil within the school.†   (source)
  • But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequences, by self-doubt, by selfimage, by feelings of love and responsibility.†   (source)
  • I had not been fully aware of how deeply the turmoil at school was affecting me.†   (source)
  • In the midst of the turmoil I stumbled into a small room.†   (source)
  • The turning point, when it came, was lost-as all such moments are-within the dust and turmoil of a thousand individual encounters where infantrymen faced infantrymen across the distance of their personal weapons.†   (source)
  • Amid so much turmoil it was understandable that the work of a young and handsome doctor would go unnoticed.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Baldwin is only slightly interested in Sonny's addiction in and of itself what he really cares about is the brother's emotional turmoil.†   (source)
  • You just saved me so much inner turmoil.†   (source)
  • Through the turmoil inside me, I realized it was important for the other man to believe him.†   (source)
  • My thoughts were in turmoil--so much had happened already this night.†   (source)
  • The turmoil of an earlier era has been replaced by a sad and rootless anomie.†   (source)
  • Limping toward the back porch, the smell of huevos estrellados (two grade double-As, looking at you) cleared the tangle of thoughts which lingered from the night's turmoil of dreams.†   (source)
  • My girlfriend's son was in a constant state of hopeless turmoil, trying to repair what was beyond repair.†   (source)
  • But Mrs. Livingston sees a soul in turmoil, a young girl looking for the right answers, not just the easy ones.†   (source)
  • Was it possible that out of the turmoil and surge of this dreadful event he would learn to make his way in the world?†   (source)
  • The Duat is in turmoil.†   (source)
  • That something happened when personal turmoil dropped by at the wayside shrine of the vast, violent, circling, driving, ridiculous, insane, unfeasible, public turmoil of a nation.†   (source)
  • He stood, staring at it, his stomach a ball of motion and turmoil.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, they continued to write to each other with the same ardor and frequency, but free of the turmoil they had felt before, and their letters tended toward a domestic tone that seemed appropriate to husband and wife.†   (source)
  • As she spoke, he felt the drug complete its work within him, ripping away the curtains to let him see the distant gray turmoil of his future.†   (source)
  • No matter what, it looked like our relaxing, post-turmoil celebration trip was abruptly coming to an end.†   (source)
  • Her mind was in a turmoil.†   (source)
  • Farmer was hoping for real change in Haiti, and meanwhile hating what he called "the tumble," the turmoil and bloodshed and their inevitable by-product, the worsening of Haiti's already wretched public health.†   (source)
  • But not infrequently his business clients would drag in private problems that had a tendency to create unwelcome turmoil.†   (source)
  • Once the first year's turmoil cooled down, the authorities started letting us outside the wire for recreation.†   (source)
  • The road was all a turmoil of mud and snow marked with dozens of hoof-prints.†   (source)
  • Every phase of this turmoil is conveyed to us by the camera.†   (source)
  • Moody had never pursued U.S. citizenship after he became embroiled in the turmoil of the Iranian revolution.†   (source)
  • Ozhii Nelii was in deep turmoil.†   (source)
  • "In the midst of the resulting chaos, turmoil, and disorder," Yutar proclaimed, "it was planned by the accused to set up a Provisional Revolutionary Government to take over the administration and control of the country."†   (source)
  • I looked into Chase's eyes, found emotions in turmoil.†   (source)
  • In the photo, she looked beautiful and independent, the strong-willed woman who'd captured his heart, and at night, after the kids were in bed, he would sometimes stare at his wife's image, his emotions in turmoil.†   (source)
  • She tells him how the schedule has been set up for a delicately balanced reason that would be thrown into turmoil by the switch of routines.†   (source)
  • Given what they'd already been through, the challenges they faced in creating new lives in America, the social turmoil in Clarkston, and the attitudes of many locals toward these newcomers, there was another question that for now was perhaps best left unconsidered: Would they at least get a fair shot?†   (source)
  • Norah, caught in a wild turmoil, went back to those blurry days of grief and joy, Paul in her arms and Bree handing her the phone, saying, You have to put this to rest.†   (source)
  • The house was thrown into mathematical turmoil.†   (source)
  • Himes, in a turmoil of stupid uncertainty, once or twice made as though to detain him.†   (source)
  • After my year of racial harmony at the King's Court I found the turmoil in St. Croix very disturbing.†   (source)
  • Other telephone poles had black posters with letters that appeared to be cut out of a newspaper, like the ransom notes in mystery novels, but they were ads for bands with names like Audio Confusion and Useless Turmoil and the Meat Puppets.†   (source)
  • It took some time, and a great deal of political turmoil, but these incentives were eventually curtailed.†   (source)
  • All the while I studied and reacted, her face was perfectly composed, a carving of a goddess, showing nothing of the turmoil roiling inside me.†   (source)
  • But then he knew he could not simply ride by Clara, whatever the threat of turmoil or disappointment.†   (source)
  • She was arguably the world's richest self-made woman, although market turmoil later sent her net worth plunging and threatened her operations.†   (source)
  • Above us, the sky is in turmoil.†   (source)
  • Two wars were ongoing and the financial crisis was causing turmoil around the world.†   (source)
  • Through all the turmoil that was about to engulf him, he never lost sight of that dream.†   (source)
  • Few had survived the turmoils of the Elder Days; but when the Kings returned again over the Great Sea they had found the Bree-men still there, and they were still there now, when the memory of the old Kings had faded into the grass.†   (source)
  • If I felt any sympathy for the women, it was buried deep in my own turmoil.†   (source)
  • This was how my granddaughter learned that the contents of the pigskin hatbox she used for celebrating black masses and decorating her playhouse in the basement was the head of her Great-Grandmother Nivea, which had remained unburied for years—first to avoid scandal, and later because in the turmoil of this house we simply forgot about it.†   (source)
  • But first he hastily drew a tourniquet around Snowden's thigh because he could not think what else to do in those first tumultuous moments when his senses were in turmoil, when he knew he must act competently at once and feared he might go to pieces completely.†   (source)
  • We believed that the sentiments on that piece of paper would last forever, but we could not foresee the turmoil that lay ahead.†   (source)
  • Learn to meditate, deal with his inner turmoil.†   (source)
  • There's been lots of turmoil at cumbersome federal departments like agriculture lately-more restructuring, though, than actual cost cutting.†   (source)
  • I had to wait a few minutes for the turmoil in me to subside.†   (source)
  • He's been through a bit of turmoil lately and isn't thrilled with the way the others have treated him, but I can promise you my full protection.†   (source)
  • The turmoil among Reb Saunders' followers that was caused by this announcement was considerable.†   (source)
  • You feel no inner turmoil, no need to cast out the offending eye?†   (source)
  • Crisis GLADSTONE, UPON HEARING OF THE DEATH OF "Chinese" Gordon in Egypt, was reported to have muttered irritably that his general might have chosen a more propitious time to die: Gordon's death threw the Gladstone government into turmoil and crisis.†   (source)
  • In the turmoil and confusion, Sullivan struggled to hold control and keep his men from panicking.†   (source)
  • It's been one of those days, Frankie, lots of turmoil, you know what I mean?†   (source)
  • There was no turmoil within me, for I had made my decision.†   (source)
  • She was cowering at the back wall, trapped by a turmoil of shrieking mares.†   (source)
  • The eye in the shadowed side of Lisa's smooth face was dark and enigmatic, but the eye in the lamplit half revealed emotional turmoil as she responded to the description that Joe gave her.†   (source)
  • The turmoil stirred up the sea-monsters.†   (source)
  • Presently Petra got a hold of herself, and the turmoil quietened down.†   (source)
  • By the 1640s, our world was in great turmoil.†   (source)
  • The Goober arrived at the last moment and made his way through the turmoil to the top of the bleachers.†   (source)
  • The president can now relax with his family for the rest of the afternoon, enjoying a time of peace amid all the sadness and turmoil of the previous month.†   (source)
  • They're in political turmoil.†   (source)
  • For an instant she was caught in the turmoil, in the dark place he remembered too well and she knew nothing about.†   (source)
  • The courtroom again was in turmoil.†   (source)
  • And, above all, that one should learn from turmoil and pain, share one's joy with those less joyful, and encourage passion when it seems likely to promote the common good.†   (source)
  • At the very top of the plume, in the greatest violence and turmoil, the water is beaten and pulverized into a fine mist, and the air that is pushed out of the way by the upward jet of water propels the mist in its own arc until it slowly begins to sink in diaphanous curtains that oscillate in the breeze.†   (source)
  • Others think that they can have more power if the country is in turmoil or is broken up into several small countries.†   (source)
  • If we cannot somehow hold the gathered army at bay until its own inner turmoil becomes our ally, then we are surely doomed.†   (source)
  • "I understand the emotional turmoil you're going through," Green said, "but you, being a chaplain and a deputy sheriff, should know we cannot tolerate that kind of behavior in court.†   (source)
  • "The newsroom's in turmoil, too many people doing too many things.†   (source)
  • He told us that Authority had guarded this sacred trust more than a century, while governments fell and new governments rose, alliances shifted and shifted again—indeed, Authority was older than Federated Nations, deriving original charter from an older international body, and so well had it kept that trust that it had lasted through wars and turmoils and realignments.†   (source)
  • Late that afternoon, with the French capital in turmoil, he rang the chief of the DGSI to offer his resignation.†   (source)
  • The realization that they had been sitting almost within jumping distance of my unprotected back for God knows how long set up such a turmoil of the spirit that I had to give up all thought of carrying on where my discovery of the wolves had forced me to leave off.†   (source)
  • Inside him the muddy water turmoil was settling to the bottom, and streaks of clarity were slowly emerging.†   (source)
  • PLAYER: Lucianus, nephew to the king … usurped by his uncle and shattered by his mother's incestuous marriage … loses his reason … throwing the court into turmoil and disarray as he alternates between bitter melancholy and unrestricted lunacy … staggering from the suicidal (a pose) to the homicidal (here he kills "POLONIUS") … he at last confronts his mother and in a scene of provocative ambiguity-(a somewhat oedipal embrace) begs her to repent and recant (He springs up, still talking.†   (source)
  • And when those cities exploded into turmoil, men who had not believed me would telephone to tell me I had been right and they had been wrong.†   (source)
  • His thoughts were still in turmoil as he crossed to the embankment wall and let his eye follow the Thames on its unhurried way to the sea.†   (source)
  • He had become distracted, restless, and he got up and fiddled with the phonograph records, replaced the Handel with Vivaldi again, in obvious turmoil gulped a glass of water, sat down and drummed his fingers against his pants leg in rhythm to the celebrant horns.†   (source)
  • The crowd was in a turmoil of applause.†   (source)
  • When Barthelme came up beside me, he stopped repeating "What happened?" as soon as he looked down and saw the flashing fins at the center of the turmoil.†   (source)
  • Both seem to wish the whole painful turmoil were over.†   (source)
  • What I knew of the world's turmoil came mostly from "War Cards" which, like baseball cards, came packed with penny bubble gum.†   (source)
  • Unless we can get them thinking, and give them real ideas instead of just politics and principles, these young men will keep our world in turmoil for the next half century.†   (source)
  • The taint and turmoil of cities were gone from me.†   (source)
  • Turmoil again.†   (source)
  • In the confusion of Liz's mind, in the turmoil of shame and grief and fear, there predominated the appalling memory of Leamas as she had last seen him in the courtroom, sitting stiffly in his chair, his eyes averted from her own.†   (source)
  • Whenever the train stopped, the noise of the besieging crowds outside was added to this turmoil.†   (source)
  • Once in a while when these voices came to crises in their subdued turmoil Rufus and Catherine looked into each other's cold bright eyes which brightened and chilled the more with every intensification of the man's voice, and every softening and defeat of their mother's voice.†   (source)
  • After the noise and turmoil of the evening the peace of the garden in the night was a relief to him.†   (source)
  • Now that there was nothing more to do, the thoughts I had so far avoided came crowding in on me in agitated turmoil.†   (source)
  • The turmoil within Sam Houston was nothing more than the turmoil which racked the United States in those stormy years before the Civil War, the colorful uniqueness of Sam Houston was nothing more than the primitive expression of the frontier he had always known.†   (source)
  • She was thirteen, waiting outside, on guard at a vast calming spectacle of turmoil, and saving it.†   (source)
  • I'm the guy who pries into your private little turmoil down here.†   (source)
  • Yet his feelings were so violent, he was in such a turmoil of unhappiness, that he had to restrain crazy impulses to set fire to the long grass and watch the flames destroy the veld he knew so well that each bush and tree was a personal friend; or to pull down the little house he had built with his own hands and lived in so long.†   (source)
  • When I last spoke to a certain teammate, his life had been thrown into turmoil.†   (source)
  • And the awareness, somehow, amid all of this turmoil, that she had missed a cycle.†   (source)
  • The mindless turmoil of Nature, he thinks; Tennyson's teeth and claws.†   (source)
  • Peter was getting better at putting on a happy face for his family, hiding his own turmoil.†   (source)
  • What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?†   (source)
  • The turmoil comes and if I'm not where I can unravel it, the thing will run wild.†   (source)
  • The photographer was a professional who had managed to capture the turmoil surrounding the accident.†   (source)
  • Sophie's thoughts were in a turmoil because of the postcard she had found down in the hallway.†   (source)
  • Beyond the fairgrounds' new fence, turmoil and grief engulfed Chicago.†   (source)
  • She would never know what scenes were driving this turmoil.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately for him, a growing religious turmoil was gripping Rome.†   (source)
  • Dussel is in a turmoil and we don't know why.†   (source)
  • In turmoil, Lilian stared at the clean-shaven face with its gentle, yet so expressive features.†   (source)
  • Once again her thoughts were in turmoil.†   (source)
  • He paced the platforms for half an hour in a turmoil of indecision.†   (source)
  • Turmoil accompanies every great change,said Saphira to both of them.†   (source)
  • It proclaims his bastardy, his high birth, and the turmoil he brings with him.†   (source)
  • There was for a moment turmoil and confusion.†   (source)
  • She rested her chin on her knees, her expression reflecting her turmoil.†   (source)
  • He could sense her emotions boiling with as much turmoil as his.†   (source)
  • Her slim body trembled to an inner turmoil.†   (source)
  • A dozen years of wanting and turmoil and too much distrust.†   (source)
  • I was causing them so much turmoil and unhappiness.†   (source)
  • His mother saw the turmoil raging in his eyes and she knew that he was close to protesting.†   (source)
  • He said nothing, spinning in his internal turmoil.†   (source)
  • They needed a clean slate, not emotional turmoil over the past.†   (source)
  • It seems almost peaceful now after all the turmoil.†   (source)
  • The turmoil, of course, had also exacted a heavy toll from me.†   (source)
  • I'm guessing that the government secretariat was in turmoil during those transition periods.†   (source)
  • To keep the peace against both internal turmoil and external attacks.†   (source)
  • He couldn't remember ever feeling such strange turmoil.†   (source)
  • The crowd was in a turmoil now, shouting, jeering, urging Janza on.†   (source)
  • I beamed my congratulations, but my brain was in turmoil.†   (source)
  • All is terror and turmoil, a moan and a sighing.†   (source)
  • Still in turmoil, she couldn't answer, but when he reached for her glass, she let him take it.†   (source)
  • Such was the turmoil of Amsterdam that Adams now found it impossible even to arrange meetings.†   (source)
  • Driven by his desire for vengeance, Brom sought to use the turmoil to his advantage.†   (source)
  • He stood safely in the dark and considered the turmoil he was about to cause.†   (source)
  • Easter weekend of 1983 found us in turmoil.†   (source)
  • Under all my turmoil simmered the feeling that Snow Flower had betrayed me.†   (source)
  • Massachusetts barely survived the recent turmoil.†   (source)
  • In the fearsome turmoil that followed, he'd forgotten that odd detail.†   (source)
  • Now nearly a year had passed and, once more, Moody's life was in turmoil.†   (source)
  • The wide variety of taxes within Germany has put commerce in constant turmoil.†   (source)
  • Foreign nations want Germany to remain in turmoil.†   (source)
  • Still, there was pain and turmoil within him as the brunt of the attack touched upon his being.†   (source)
  • Everyone was saying the turmoil was the work of young blacks.†   (source)
  • She was completely unaware that with one twist of the tongue she could plunge Jean Louise into a moral turmoil by making her niece doubt her own motives and best intentions, by tweaking the protestant, philistine strings of Jean Louise's conscience until they vibrated like a spectral zither.†   (source)
  • However, there can be no doubt that Dumbledore delayed, for some five years of turmoil, fatalities, and disappearances, his attack upon Gellert Grindelwald.†   (source)
  • And so it was that, about a week later, we crossed a strip of warm, black tarmac and I brought Hassan's son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty.†   (source)
  • In the eighteen months that George lived with them, it seemed to Charlie that there had been nothing but violence, loud arguments, pushing and shoving, threats, and turmoil.†   (source)
  • She didn't want to know any of this about the adults who'd ruled her life, that beneath their veneer of propriety they might have been concealing a turmoil of emotions too.†   (source)
  • If the river continued through the throat at less than sonic speed--that is to say, less than the speed of sound--it became compacted in the divergent section, bound in turmoil, and inefficient.†   (source)
  • "For a child growing up in the turmoil of [postwar] Berlin …. the Americans were angels," Christa Maerker, a Berlin filmmaker, wrote in an essay on postwar Germany's infatuation with the United States.†   (source)
  • The third floor of the Chatham County Courthouse was a scene of turmoil and confusion at ten o'clock the next morning.†   (source)
  • He then continued with some remarks about the intellectual turmoil in this field of study, and about the contending schools of thought amongst alienists.†   (source)
  • She had returned to Europe three times after the unfortunate trip from which she had intended never to return so that she would not have to live in perpetual turmoil.†   (source)
  • Popular upheaval, political turmoil, industrial progress—any combination of these can cause the evolution of a society to leapfrog generations, sweeping aside aspects of the past that might otherwise have lingered for decades.†   (source)
  • Last night, after what seemed hours of damp turmoil, I got up and crept slipperless down the stairs, feeling my way in the faint shine from the street light outside the stairwell window.†   (source)
  • Consecrated on the tenth of February in 1185 by Heraclius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Temple Church survived eight centuries of political turmoil, the Great Fire of London, and the First World War, only to be heavily damaged by Luftwaffe incendiary bombs in 1940.†   (source)
  • She was ready at eleven o'clock, bathed and smelling of flower-scented soap, wearing a very simple widow's dress of gray etamine, and completely recovered from the night's turmoil.†   (source)
  • The more he resisted his terrible purpose and fought against the coming of the jihad, the greater the turmoil that wove through his prescience.†   (source)
  • When my turn came, I said what Mr. MacKenzie had told me to say, and my head was all in a turmoil, trying to remember the right answers; and I was pressed to explain why I hadn't warned Nancy and Mr. Kinnear, once I knew James McDermott's intentions.†   (source)
  • Anyway she'd be let off, her involvement viewed as frivolous dabbling or else a rebellious prank, and whatever turmoil might result would be covered up.†   (source)
  • In fact, the defense arrangements for his upcoming retrial had been in turmoil only a few weeks earlier, necessitating a change of lawyers.†   (source)
  • AT THE HOLMES BUILDING at Sixty-third and Wallace, now known widely in the neighborhood as "the castle," the Conner family was in turmoil.†   (source)
  • Fresh violence broke out yesterday in Port Ticonderoga, a continuation of the week's turmoil in connection with the closure, strike and lockout at Chase and Sons Industries Ltd. Police forces proving outnumbered and reinforcements having been requested by the provincial legislature, the Prime Minister authorized intervention in the interests of public safety by a detachment of the Royal Canadian Regiment, which arrived at two o'clock in the afternoon.†   (source)
  • Her thoughts were in a turmoil.†   (source)
  • But when he began to wait for the answer to his first letter, his anguish was complicated by diarrhea and green vomit, he became disoriented and suffered from sudden fainting spells, and his mother was terrified because his condition did not resemble the turmoil of love so much as the devastation of cholera.†   (source)
  • And he sampled the time-winds, sensing the turmoil, the storm nexus that now focused on this moment place.†   (source)
  • The race of humans had felt its own dormancy, sensed itself grown stale and knew now only the need to experience turmoil in which the genes would mingle and the strong new mixtures survive.†   (source)
  • Let's call it an economic problem that could lead to serious political turmoil, not only in Hong Kong but throughout the world.†   (source)
  • Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: They wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy.†   (source)
  • Despite his turmoil he'd at least managed to spare himself the embarrassment of dumping the pain on the table for all of them to see.†   (source)
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