Word: thunderous
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...Whenever a storm with thunder and lightning moved over the sea, he would hurry out to the top of the cliffs as if he had a pact of friendship with the forces of nature, or even went on into the oakwood where the lightning had split a tall tree from top to bottom, which led him to murmur: 'How great, how mighty, how wonderful!' " Thus a friend remembered the wanderings...
Beinnd the thunder from the pulpit and the theater at the altar, Quinlan had a serious purpose: galvanizing ins tepid Catholics into self-starting Christians...
Died. Norman Eric Kirk, 51, thunder-voiced politician who ended the New Zealand Labor Party's twelve-year exile from power and became Prime Minister after a 1972 electoral sweep; of a heart attack; in Wellington. A onetime manual laborer...
...western, Valerii has found a way to have fun with his form without indulging in parody or resorting to bloody excesses that have marred so many recent westerns. There is his handling of the Wild Bunch, which he converts into a men acing abstraction: a cloud of dust, a thunder of hoofs, an excess rendered so mysterious by distance that it is hard to know whether to laugh or be scared...
Britain's Michael Moorcock is both bizarrely inventive and highly disciplined as he rockets from blood-and-thunder histrionics to wry social satire in his latest fantasy, Breakfast in the Ruins. In it, Karl Glogauer, a young Englishman, swaps physical and mental identities with a strange African with whom he has a homosexual encounter...