thunderbolt betydelse and definition

Exempel på thunderbolt

• Fire in one of its most sensorily arresting forms is the "thunderbolt," which "pilots all things".

• Pleasing, too, is the notion of love as a gradual development rather than a thunderbolt.

• The thunderbolt, when it came, took everyone by surprise.

• She says that the thunderbolt strikes the oak but leaves the myrtle; in other words it discriminates in punishing the lofty or exceptionally vicious, but spares the ordinary or commonplace.

• Political assassinations do not come out of a clear sky any more than do thunderbolts.

• A second lesson of which we would do well to take note is that surprise attacks can come like thunderbolts out of a blue sky.

• The more thunderbolts he hurls the more we welcome it.

• In war, the clouds never blow over; they gather increasingly and fall in thunderbolts.