windiness

• “(Indeed, the construction was completed with much-praised efficiency, although there have been some criticisms, such as windiness in the stadium, which could impede track-and-field athletes.”

  Newsweek: The Good, The Bad, The Boring

• “In cooking them, he directs them to be “unscaled, to vent the windiness which is in them, being sodden with their scales; whereof lust and disposition to venery might arise,” p.  168.] [Footnote 222: See the recipe for “Creme of Almonde Mylk,””

  Early English Meals and Manners

• “But this unseasonable warmth is about over as cooler air streams in tonight, followed by excessive windiness tomorrow.”

  The Washington Post: PM Update: Big winds follow today's record warmth

• “Terrence completes his circle right there and stultifies all his windiness.”

  CHAPTER XI

• “By mid-century, most areas will see barely any change in their windiness, and those that will see a drop weren't great sites for wind power in the first place, the researchers say.”

  The Huffington Post: Mason Inman: The Climate Post: The World Has Passed Peak Oil, Says Top Economist

• “He knew already the empty windiness of its threats, but he was careful of the mainsheet blocks, and walked around the traveller instead of over it.”

  CHAPTER IV

• “It's not a perfect solution to the play's windiness, but it's gutsy, and the implications of the vivid theatrics stay with you well after the show is done.”

  The Washington Post: In Olney Theatre Center's 'Trumpery,' the big ideas survive, even soar

• “The current version of Arcade Fire is a seven-piece band that builds momentum within each song unfurling guitar chords that ripple alongside the windiness of the band's lyrics.”

  NPR: Arcade Fire: Turning An Ear Toward 'The Suburbs'

• “There are some excellent leaders at Sergeant level, quite a few at Insp (my own) level, though the windiness and arse covering is creeping in.”

  Bad Vibrations And The Smell Of Benzine. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “Consciousness without surface, without end, luminous all around, does not partake of the solidity of earth, the liquidity of water, the radiance of fire, the windiness of wind, the divinity of devas and so on through a list of the various levels of godhood to the allness of the All.”

  A Verb for Nirvana by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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