Madeleine M. Kunin

When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.

American Diplomat

John Millington Synge

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

Irish Poet

Kate Chopin

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

American Author

Gordon B. Hinckley

There is need occasionally to leave the noise and the tumult of the world and step within the walls of a sacred house of God, there to feel His Spirit in an environment of holiness and peace.

American Clergyman

Richard Harding Davis

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

American Journalist

Georges Bataille

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

French Writer

Danny Bonaduce

I think I would have had less tumult in my life if I hadn't grown up in my particular house.

American Actor

E. O. Wilson

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

American Scientist

Dorothea Dix

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

American Activist

Richard Ford

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

Indicates noisy confusion in a crowd, can be a reaction to excitement or panic.

Loud Chaos

Represents sound and confusion, not physical actions or violence.

Not Physical

Usually involves many people, not just a few individuals.

Large Groups

Describes a chaotic situation where order is lacking.

Confusion Reigns

Can describe inner emotional turmoil, not just external disorder.

Emotional Disarray

Can be used to describe non-literal situations of chaos or disorder.

Metaphorical Use

Tumult suggests a situation is intense, potentially uncontrollable.

Intensity

Often related to mobs, implies danger and elevated emotions.

Mob Involvement

Indicates the disturbance is widespread among many participants.

Scale of Event

 for females to show up and if you're not one of the chosen males you're waiting that whole time and nobody's there and you're doing practice displays if you're one of the lucky few that all the females are converging on then you're busy throughout those eight months the other months they're only reason why you're not displaying is because all birds have to change out their feathers every year and they have tumult and lose

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 to be different this is a big one for me because the wish for it to be different is very powerful it inoculate cyou to the tumult it allows you to continue to believe that logic and reason will

How to deal with...

 punctuated by occasional tumult." Occasionally, terrible things happen. You are shown those terrible things on the news every night of the week.

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 sing in this tumult it's very difficult to make yourself heard the male's of this species starting on their serenades